I'm not sure if you want only info on the portrayal of British in American films
or a more general relationship.  If the latter, I recall reading something --
I think it was a chapter in a book of the past five years -- which discussed
the casting of two Brits in GONE WITH THE WIND as an intentional device.
 
(BTW, RUGGLES OF RED GAP was 1935, not 1930)
 
Bob Kosovsky
New York Public Library--Music Division
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