Sylvia Scarlett is odd but interesting for all the great performances by these great actors--Edmund Gwenn, Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne--and the two uncredited roles of the maid and the Russian woman with the French accent (who actually is some kind of Russian Copuntess.) Since I've seen a lot of Opera I can suspend a lot of disbelief. The movie is wildly implausible, but fun because of what the actors do with it. Grant is great, kind of mean and low class, but if you really want to see Hepburn's full range this is the movie to see. There is a lot of cross-dressing role playing by Hepburn that gives it a contemporary bisexual vibe. A very interesting oldie viewed in retrospect of what Hepburn and Grant's film personas subsequently became.
Review of Sylvia Scarlett
