The Yanks at Oxford: The 1987 Boat Race Controversy is a non-fiction book written by Allison Gill and published in 1991. The book is a commentary on True...
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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...
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Lowe, Ally Sheedy and Amanda Pays. It is a remake of the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film A Yank at Oxford and was Lowe's first starring role in a feature. Nick...
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British-made film A Yank at Oxford (1938). Edmund Gwenn, who played a school official in the earlier film, has a similar role in this one. A Yank at Eton was filmed...
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the following terms: "As character assassinations go, it is ruthless." Alison Gill, an Oxford oarswoman at the time of the "mutiny", wrote The Yanks at...
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the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Roach studio. The title echoes the film A Yank at Oxford (1938), of which it is a partial parody. Stan...
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Robert Taylor (American actor) (category Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale))
A Yank at Oxford with Vivien Leigh. Throughout 1940 and 1941 he argued in favor of American entry into World War II, and was sharply critical of the isolationist...
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then-president of the Oxford University Women's Boat Club, wrote The Yanks at Oxford, in which she defended the Americans and claimed Topolski wrote True Blue in order...
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Maureen O'Sullivan (category People educated at Woldingham School)
costarring with the Marx Brothers in A Day at the Races (1937), she appeared as Molly Beaumont in A Yank at Oxford (1938), written partly by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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Vivien Leigh (category People educated at Woldingham School)
Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan in A Yank at Oxford (1938), which was the first of her films to receive attention in the United States. During production...
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Edmund Gwenn (category People educated at St Olave's Grammar School)
Alfred Huggins A Yank at Oxford (1938) as Dean of Cardinal Penny Paradise (1938) as Joe Higgins Cheer Boys Cheer (1939) as Edward Ironside The Earl of Chicago...
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Roland Pertwee (section The Grove Family)
was one of many writers who worked on the script of A Yank at Oxford starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh, the film in which his son Jon made his screen...
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Kris Kristofferson (category Alumni of Merton College, Oxford)
recorded for Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson. Parnes was working to sell Kristofferson as "a Yank at Oxford" to the British public; Kristofferson...
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Taylor Appears as 'A Yank at Oxford' at the Capitol". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 July 2024. McCrum, Robert (23 June 2014). "The 100 best novels: No...
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Retrieved 11 November 2020. "A Yank at Oxford". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Gone with the Wind". UCLA Film and Television...
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Scarlett O'Hara (category Fictional people of the Confederate States of America)
Selznick watched both Fire Over England and her most recent picture, A Yank at Oxford, that month, and thought she was excellent but in no way a possible...
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Richard Wattis (category People educated at Bromsgrove School)
and he made many stage appearances in the West End in London. His first appearance in a film was A Yank at Oxford (1938).[citation needed] War service...
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Richard Todd (category People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wimborne Minster)
(1937), A Yank at Oxford (1938) and Old Bones of the River (1939). Todd enlisted soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, entering the Royal Military...
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Jack Churchill (category People educated at King William's College)
play a small role in the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad and also appeared in the 1938 film A Yank at Oxford. He took second place in the 1938 military piping...
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1938 in film (redirect from 1938 in the cinema)
in Paris Tom Neal – Out West with the Hardys Maureen O'Hara – Kicking the Moon Around Jon Pertwee – A Yank at Oxford Vincent Price – Service de Luxe Dub...
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writers on the documentary film Conquest of the Air (UK, 1936), which he also co-directed. He was credited for providing the idea for A Yank at Oxford (1938)...
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The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in the 1930s. Lists of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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America, for the role of Scarlett since February 1938 when Selznick saw her in Fire Over England and A Yank at Oxford. Leigh's American agent was the London...
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Canterbury A Yank at Oxford (1938) – Dean Snodgrass Strange Boarders (1938) – Col. Lionel Anstruther If I Were King (1938) – Father Villon The Ware Case...
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Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine and Tom Brown. It was described as "A Yank at Oxford in reverse". An American diplomat's son, Steven Early, having been educated...
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Sidney Gilliat (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
A Yank at Oxford (1938) for MGM; Strange Boarders (1938); and The Gaunt Stranger (1938) with Sonnie Hale. Gilliat and Launder collaborated on The Lady...
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Griffith Jones (actor) (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
(uncredited) The Mill on the Floss (1936) - Stephen Guest The Wife of General Ling (1937) - John Fenton Return of a Stranger (1937) - James Martin A Yank at Oxford...
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Jack Conway (filmmaker) (category Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale))
He went to England to make A Yank at Oxford (1938) with Robert Taylor. Star and director were reunited in Lady of the Tropics (1938) with Hedy Lamarr...
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Yank at Oxford (1938) The Body Vanished (1939) The Frozen Limits (1939) They Came by Night (1940) Laugh It Off (1940) For Freedom (1940) Up with the Lark...
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