A Yank At Oxford (1938) Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen OSullivan, Vivien Leigh

A cocky American student runs into trouble when he transfers to the famed British A Yank at Oxford (1938) is a comedydrama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O Sullivan, Vivien Leigh and Edmund Gwenn. The screenplay was written by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. The film was produced by MGMBritish at Denham Studios. A Yank at Oxford marks Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor s first film appearance together; they would later appear as the romantic lead couple in the remake of Waterloo Bridge (1940). Before this film, Taylor was seen as the romantic love interest and thus as a 1930s equivalent to Rudolph Valentino, with men therefore starting to doubt Taylor s masculinity. His casting in this film (by Mayer) was a successful attempt to put paid to such doubts, and dramatically boosted his reputation with both men and women.