Sylvia Scarlett
Director: George Cukor
Year Released: 1935
Rating: 2.0
Katharine Hepburn has to dress up like a boy to help out her gambling addict father - and eventually joins a circus - in this early ode to gender bending by Cukor. Sadly, it goes along the path of something like I Was a Male War Bride (also with Cary Grant, whose ambiguous sexuality was exploited by a lot of the filmmakers he worked with) by exploring the novelty of Hepburn's situation (which is never believable although I don't supposed it's intended to be) and ending with two drowning incidents that more or less get ignored. Though not the failure they claimed it was when first released, its plodding nature makes it inferior to Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story.
