"QUAINT ACCENT."
English Talkies Not Understood By Americans.
REMEDY SOUGHT,
LONDON, November 1. What Americans regard as "that quaint English accent" is again the subject of discussion in the motion picture world. The head of a film company who has just arrived in London says many "English accent" films are unintelligible to the average American outside the big cities. He himself could understand enly a portion of the words spoken by an actor who played the part of the Yorkshireman Jess Oakroyd in "The. Good Companions," while the tones of Herbert Marshall and Madeleine Carroll in "I Was a Spy," were too English for Americans. The visitor hopes to adjust the matter with the English producers with whom he is associated.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 259, 2 November 1933, Page 7
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