In 1937, to circumvent the quota imposed on the exhibition of foreign films in Great Britain and take advantage of England's supply of fine actors, MGM established its own presence in London at Denham Studios. In 1948 the studio inaugurated a new studio at Elstree. A Yank at Oxford (1938), the first MGM picture to emerge from Denham, starred Robert Taylor, with a relatively unknown young British actress named Vivien Leigh in the second female lead. Another future star of the first magnitude, Deborah Kerr, made her MGM debut opposite Robert Donat in Vacation From Marriage (1945), the only product of a much-publicized merger of MGM British and Alexander Korda's London Films. Knights of the Round Table (1953), starring Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner, was MGM's first CinemaScope movie and one of a series of swashbucklers made at the British Studios. Director Stanley Kubrick employed an even more expansive format - Cinerama - for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the imaginative space epic filmed amid deep secrecy at Elstree. Among the final films made at MGM British before the studios closed in 1970 was Where Eagles Dare (1969), a smash-hit action movie with Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton as WWII Allied fighters posing as German officers. By Roger Fristoe