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MUBI Podcast | “Sylvia Scarlett”: Katharine Hepburn Pays for her Transgressions

In our latest episode, we explore the story behind George Cukor's 1935 film that gave our season its name, "Box Office Poison."
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It’s hard to imagine Katharine Hepburn as anything but a Hollywood icon, but director George Cukor’s dreamy, gender-fluid comedy, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), derailed her career for years. Host Rico Gagliano tells the story of a movie with sexual politics way ahead of its time—and which paid for it dearly at the box office. Guests include movie star and Hepburn devotee Rebecca Hall (The Prestige, 2006), film scholar Elyce Rae Helford, and arts writer Lesley Chow.

The latest season of the MUBI Podcast, Box Office Poison, dives into six visionary films...that were also notorious flops. Inspired by the new book of the same name by Tim Robey, film critic for The Telegraph, each episode takes a wild ride through a great movie’s rise, fall, and rise.

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