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TOO MUCH FOR AMERICANS FILM PRODUCER'S DILEMMA (Received November 1, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 31 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 Eondon says many "English accent" films arc unintelligible to the averago American outside the big cities. He himself could understand only 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 "1 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21638, 2 November 1933, Page 9
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