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LOST ON AMERICANS FILM PRODUCERS’ PROBLEMS. LONDON, October 81. (Received Nov. 1, at 7.30 p.m.) What Americans regard as “ that quaint English accent ” is again the subject of discussion in the talkie world. The head of the Fox Film Company, who has just arrived in London, says: “Much of the English accent on the films is unintelligible to the average American outside the big cities. He himself is able to understand only a portion of the words of the character taking the part of a Yorkshireman, Jess Oakroyd, in ‘ Good Companions,’ while the tones of Herbert Marshall and Madeleine Carrol in ‘ I Was a Spy ’ are too English for Americans.” The company’s representative hopes to adjust the matter with English producers, with whom his firm is associated.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 9
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