A Yank At Oxford (1938)

A brash and arrogant American athlete (Robert Taylor) receives a scholarship to attend the University of Oxford in England. His cocky Yank manner turns off his fellow British students and he starts to make more enemies than friends. Directed by Jack Conway (LIBELED LADY), this MGM production actually went to Great Britain to film it rather than shoot it on the studio backlot. It's an agreeable clash of cultures romantic comedy with an appealing cast. It's really no more than another college comedy but the British setting gives it a unique atmosphere. There's a scene stealer in the film and that would be the cat eyed Vivien Leigh as a married woman having an affair with an Oxford student (Griffith Jones). The very next year she would be cast as a Southern belle in a Civil War epic and become a screen icon. With Maureen O'Sullivan, Lionel Barrymore, Edmund Gwenn, Robert Coote and Edward Rigby.