Robert Taylor, in a change of pace after the romantic lead in Cukor’s Camille (opposite Garbo), plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young American athlete who intends to teach the “Brits” a lesson while attending Oxford University.
Oscar Roles: Southern Belles–Prevalent Women Types (Mary Pickford, Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh)
December 28, 2005 by
The Southern belle is a uniquely American literary and cinematic type. Though over the past two decades, it has declined as a type, in the first decades of the Oscars, several women, such as Mary Pickford and Vivien Leigh, won awards or were nominated for playing southern belles.
