“Then I won’t be a girl. And I won’t be weak and I won’t be silly. I’ll be a boy and rough and hard. I won’t care what I do. Don’t worry! I’m ready for anything.”
– Sylvia (Katharine Hepburn)

Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the title role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. The success of the subterfuge is in large part due to the transformation of Hepburn by RKO make-up artist Mel Berns.

This film was the first pairing of Grant and Hepburn, who later starred together in Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Cary Grant’s performance as a dashing rogue sees him incorporate a (rather unconvincing) Cockney accent and remains widely considered the first time Grant’s famous personality began to register on film. (Grant only used the Cockney accent in a few other films, notably 1939’s Gunga Din and Clifford Odets’ None but the Lonely Heart in 1944.) Cockney was not, however, Cary Grant’s original accent. He was born and grew up in Bristol, which has a very different accent from that of London, although it was much closer to Grant’s pre-Hollywood accent than the voice he used in most films, an essentially successful product of his attempting to sound more American in order to broaden the range of roles for which he could be cast.

	
Sylvia Scarlett.mkv

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The post George Cukor – Sylvia Scarlett (1935) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Shanghai Drama was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Le Drame de Shanghai. Director G. W. Pabst, best known for the erotic classics Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora’s Box, seems artistically subdued in this standard tale of pre-WW2 intrigue. The villains are the Japanese, who inveigle a group of exiled White Russians to aid in the subjugation of China. Trapped in the web of deceit is nightclub chanteuse Kay (Christine Mardayne), whose efforts to break away from a sinister Black Dragon-like society are doomed to failure. The film’s only ray of hope is manifested in the character of Kay’s daughter Vera (Suzanne Dempers), who is afforded the opportunity to start life anew with journalist Franchon (Raymond Rouleau). allmovie.com

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The post Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Le Drame de Shanghai AKA Drama in Shanghai (1938) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Laurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge.

Swiss.Miss.1938.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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The post John G. Blystone and Hal Roach – Swiss Miss (1938) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

	
The Shining Hour.1938.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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The post Frank Borzage – The Shining Hour (1938) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Storyline
In 1854, the patriarch Patrick O’Leary of the O’Leary family dies in an accident nearby Chicago while traveling amid-western prairie. His wife Molly O’Leary raises her three sons alone working as laundress. Her son Jack becomes an idealistic lawyer; Dion is a gambler; and Bob helps his mother in the laundry business and marries local Gretchen (June Storey) in the old area known as The Patch. Dion meets the singer Belle Fawcett in the cabaret owned by Gil Warren and they fall in love with each other and become lovers. They also open a business of their own to compete with Gil that becomes their enemy. However Gil invites Dion to join the politics with him but Dion plots a scheme with tragic consequences.

In.Old.Chicago.Roadshow.1937.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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The post Henry King – In Old Chicago (1937) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn’t even remember her, but tries to seduce her.

Only.Yesterday.1933.mp4

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The post John M. Stahl – Only Yesterday (1933) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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When the wealthy Consul General Winterfeld discovers that his son Jørgen is in love with the raven girl Aurora, he is not happy. Instead of giving Jørgen money for a wedding, Winterfeld instead suggests a bet: If Jørgen can go a month without arguing with Aurora, he will get a million. If not, his father will be allowed to find him a more suitable party.

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The post George Schnéevoigt – Skal vi vædde en million? (1932) first appeared on Cinema of the World.