A Yank at Oxford
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.
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| 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 |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,374,000 |
| Box office | $2,736,000 |
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.