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Thursday January 01 1970

Xmas Screening at the Dublin Film Qlub: "Sylvia Scarlett" (Dir. George Cukor, 1935)

category dublin | arts and media | event notice author Wednesday December 12, 2012 10:51author by Dublin Film Qlubauthor email filmqlub at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

A classy comedy of trans-gender-bending!

Next screening:
Saturday 15 December 2012
3:30pm
(doors open at 3.00pm)
New Theatre
East Essex st
Temple Bar
Dublin 2

day membership, available at the door: €8.00
(free tea and coffee)

SYLVIA SCARLETT

Saturday 15 December 2012
3:30pm
(doors open at 3.00pm)
New Theatre
East Essex st
Temple Bar
Dublin 2

day membership, available at the door: €8.00
(free tea and coffee)

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As part of the Dublin Film Qlub LGBTQ Short Film Showcase 2012-13,
we are delighted to announce that our December screening will include a very special short film
by up-and-coming director Eva Tabares. A treat!

HOMOSEX AND THE CITY
Dir. Eva Tabares, 2010
10 min. English, French, Japanese, with English subtitles

Three couples find their way in this multicultural polysexual comedy.
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SYLVIA SCARLETT

Dir. Geoge Cukor, 1935. 95 min. English (with English subtitles)
Starring: Catherine Hepburn, Cary Grant

Sylvia and her dad are on the run from the French police, because of his shoddy dealings. They decide to change their identities, leave France, and start a new life in England — what better way for Sylvia to avoid suspicion than… to dress as a man and call herself Silvester?!

Katharine Hepburn was born to play this role. As a young girl, she demanded to be called “Jimmy”, and as a young star (after a career-defining role in a film by lesbian director Dorothy Arzner), her impetuous and athletic image, together with the androgynous look she cultivated, turned her into a gay icon. Cagey about her personal life, she encouraged people to think she had had a life-long affair with Spencer Tracy (conveniently, he was dead at this point) which had to be kept secret because he was married. But her true leanings were known by a good few. At least 150 of them… We mean the over 150 young women whose services Hepburn paid for through the infamous Hollywood escort agency run by Scotty Bowers (who finally spilled the beans in a book published this year).

But leaving aside the megastar Miss Hepburn, the film Sylvia Scarlett is a queer constellation, with George Cukor behind the camera and co-starring Cary Grant. Look out for the gay ‘men’ cruising in the first minutes of the film (appropriately enough, in a cruise ship). Watch out for Hepburn’s gender switches every time she changes her clothes: gender is something we put on, like a hat, she seems to say. Keep an eye on Sylvia’s prowess as an athlete on the rings, a formula-one racer, and an Olympic swimmer. Check out the erotic currents criss-crossing all characters and all sexes. And marvel at how they got away with it all in 1935!

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