New George Cukor Book Argues for the Revolutionary 'Sylvia Scarett'

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• Film scholar Joseph McBride makes the case that Cukor's 1944 film 'Sylvia Scarett', long considered a failure, was actually a radical, subversive work that challenged traditional gender norms.
• According to McBride, Cukor used the film's ostensibly generic romantic comedy plot as a smokescreen to smuggle in a groundbreaking exploration of female identity and sexuality - way ahead of its time.