A Yank at Oxford

A Yank at Oxford
A Yank at Oxford
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jack Conway
Written by	Roland Pertwee; John Monk Saunders; Leon Gordon; Sidney Gilliat; Michael Hogan; Angus MacPhail; John Paddy Carstairs
Screenplay by	Malcolm Stuart Boylan; Walter Ferris; George Oppenheimer; Frank Wead; F. Scott Fitzgerald
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Starring	Robert Taylor; Lionel Barrymore; Maureen O'Sullivan; Vivien Leigh; Edmund Gwenn
Cinematography	Harold Rosson
Edited by	Margaret Booth; Charles Frend
Music by	Hubert Bath; Edward Ward
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc
Release date	18 February 1938;
Running time	102 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,374,000
Box office	$2,736,000

A Yank at Oxford is a 1938 comedy-drama 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 MGM-British at Denham Studios.

A Yank at Oxford was 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.^[3]

^ A Yank at Oxford at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
^ ^a ^b "The Eddie Mannix Ledger." Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles.
^ Wayne 1973, p. 79.

[1] A Yank at Oxford at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

[Mannix-2] "The Eddie Mannix Ledger." Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles.

[3] Wayne 1973, p. 79.

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