[78-L] Accent you hate [FWD]

[Julian Vein]

Mike Harkin wrote:
  > Many years ago Masterpiece Theatre ran an adaption of Last of the 
Mohicans;
> at first I thought it funny that alll the Indians had British accents, till I realised that probably we all had British accents....  Or at least the remnants of one, as I understand that by Irving's time Brits were deriding Americans' strange accents.  It sure would have been nice to have had the phonograph/gramophone back then!
> 
> Then there's Jean Marsh, who Alastair Cooke told us during the first run of Upstairs, Downstairs was a true Cockney.  Which means she probably spent millions of pounds on elocution lessons to get rid of her Cockney
> accent....  So which was her most famous part?  Rose, the Cockney 'ousemide'!  Go know!
> 
> Mike in Plovdiv  
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An interesting side issue is about American male popular studio singers. 
Until crooners came along most seemed to sing with an English-type or, 
at least, a neutral "accent": Irving Kaufman, Scrappy Lambert, Arthur 
Fields, Sid Garry etc.

      Julian Vein


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