A Yank at Oxford

[donna]

jUst been reading about the Robert Taylor, Viv leigh black and white film and it seems it was the first American film in London.





Yank at Oxford – A ….. film starring Robert Taylor and one which was the FIRST American movie to be filmed at MGM’s new studio in Denham, London

[donna]

another one I never knew about.



African Queen - The ..... John Huston's FIRST British film

[Windthrop]

name='donna']jUst been reading about the Robert Taylor, Viv leigh black and white film and it seems it was the first American film in London.





Yank at Oxford – A ….. film starring Robert Taylor and one which was the FIRST American movie to be filmed at MGM’s new studio in Denham, London

The John Barrymore Sherlock Holmes was filmed over here in the 20s

[JamesM]

A Yank at Oxford wasn't the first American funded film to be made in London. It wasn't even the first MGM film made in London, but it was the first MGM film made at Denham Studios.

[donna]

name='JamesM']A Yank at Oxford wasn't the first American funded film to be made in London. It wasn't even the first MGM film made in London, but it was the first MGM film made at Denham Studios.

can you tell me what was the first please, this intersts me.

[JamesM]

name='donna']another one I never knew about.



African Queen - The ..... John Huston's FIRST British film

Yes that was John Huston's first British film. He and Bogart did not like what was going on in Hollywood (the blacklist) and decided to take the opportunity to work away from Hollywood. Huston had a good excuse to go Africa and to France for this film and Moulin Rouge (for real locations) but also stayed in Europe for Beat the Devil, using British studios for all his films. By then he had grown accustomed to working with a fine British crew (Oswald Morris, Freddie Francis, Russell Lloyd, Angela Allen, Jeanie Sims) and wanted to keep working with them.

[donna]

Hope I have this right, Charlie Chaplin it s alleged to have signed the first one million dollar contract and was first star on Times magazine.

[donna]

Thanks James , love to get as much info as my old brain can handle, I take it in but where it all goes is another story.

[JamesM]

name='donna']can you tell me what was the first please, this intersts me.

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The first MGM film was Little Stranger (1934) but the first Warner Brothers film was Stranglehold (1931) but I could not tell you what was the first American funded film made in the UK.



The US studios moved to the UK to produce films that would satisfy quotas for British films in distribution to distribute with their own.

[donna]

Thanks James great stuff, but the last line went a bit over my head, ...age thing

[objectiveanorak]

Wasn't this the "Brideshead" set's initiation ceremony?

[LukeAFB]

JamesM,



Unless I misinterpreted your last contribution, you say that 'The African Queen' gave Huston, "a good excuse to go Africa and to France for this film" . I don't remember any of it being shot in France.

[wadsy]

I think he means France for the Moulin Rouge locations.