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"Sylvia Scarlett is a young woman who is forced to flee with her small-time crook father from Paris to London after her mother dies, and his swindling schemes catch up to him. Sylvia cuts her hair, dons drag, and dubs herself "Sylvester" to help them stay incognito from the law. While on the train to London, they meet a smarmy scoundrel. The trio of crooks team up and work it in London, until they get run out of town. The three hook up with a maid and become a travelling performance troupe. Sylvia (as a boy) falls for a smarmy artist-type."@en
"Une jeune-fille se déguise en garçon pour participer aux activités d'une bande d'escrocs. grâce à une rencontre elle réalisera son rêve : la création d'une compagnie théâtrale."
"Sylvia Scarlett, disguised as a young man, and her ne'er-do-well father flee France for England when he commits larceny. They join forces with the cockney Monkley in petty swindles and then form a traveling show. When Sylvia becomes attracted to Michael, an artist, and her father is abandoned by his new love, their fragile world collapses. In the end, Sylvia and Michael recognize their love for each other."
""Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn both give sparkling and witty performances in this entertaining comedy adventure. Sylvia Scarlett (Hepburn) and her crooked father are escaping France, one step ahead of of the police. To avoid detection Sylvia cuts her hair and dons boy's clothing. They bump into Monkley (Grant), a shady character who suggests they all work together as confidence tricksters. For a while they survive on their wits but eventaully run out of cash. Monkely remebers his friend Maudie, who is a maid in a rich London householf, but it soon becomes clear that their troubles are only just beginning ..."--Back of container."@en
""A la mort de sa mère, Sylvia Scarlett est obligée de fuir, déguisée en homme, avec son escroc de père qui a volé son employeur. D'aventures en aventures, le père et la fille vont se lier avec l'acteur Jimmy Monkley qui les entraîne dans bien des péripéties ..."--Container."
"When her father runs afoul of the law in pre-War Paris, a plucky young girl disguises herself as a boy to aid in their escape."
"Sylvia Scarlett and her crooked father are escaping France, one step ahead of of the police. To avoid detection Sylvia cuts her hair and dons boy's clothing. They bump into Monkley, a shady character who suggests they all work together. For a while they survive on their wits but eventaully run out of cash. Monkely remebers his friend Maudie, who is a maid in a rich London household, but it soon becomes clear that their troubles are only just beginning."
"When her father runs afoul of the law in pre-War Paris, a plucky young girl disguises herself as a boy to aid in their escape."@en
"Sylvia has stolen some expensive lace which they hope to smuggle from France to England. To elude police, she cuts her hair short and disguises herself as a man. She and her father Henry, board a ship, and a drunken Henry confesses their scheme to Jimmy Monkley, a jewel smuggler. To divert attention away from him, Jimmy snitches on Henry to the customs officials, and Henry has to pay up or be arrested. Later, Sylvia confronts Jimmy on a train and punches him. Jimmy apologizes and cuts them in on a scheme to steal jewels from a wealthy family, using his friend Maudie, a maid in the house. But Sylvia, still disguised as a man, talks Maudie out of it, and she responds with a kiss. Maudie and Sylvia's father fall in love and Maudie, an aspiring actress, invests money in a show to open in a seaside resort. There they are invited to the mansion of a wealthy artist, Michael Fane, who is unsettled by Sylvia's obvious affections before finally discovering that she's a woman."@en
"Hepburn assumes the guise and personality of an imaginary brother. Together with her embezzling father joins a group of wandering actors which includes Grant as a conman. Cukor creates a strange, oneiric world suspended between fantasy and realism and marked by ambiguities - between theatre and life, comedy and tragedy, male and female roles. Its affinity with Shakespearian comedy has been noted."@en