Word: accents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angels, which quite a few people besides Hughes think of as the greatest air epic of all time. Hughes spent $3,000,000 making it as a silent picture; before he had finished the "talkies" arrived. Hughes got a new heroine (the first one had a Swedish accent), reshot the talking sequences, poured in another million. The new heroine was Jean Harlow, prototypal "platinum blonde." Angels has made a profit of $4,000,000 so far, and is still showing in outlying theaters...
...Hello. My name is Boggs," said a man with a deep Southern accent. "I have a brother-in-law by the name of Figueres. Married my sister. I heard he was mixed up in some fighting down in Costa Rica recently. Can you tell me what happened to him? Is he still alive...
...cream, and Mrs. Lucas usually cooks a sample of everything beforehand, so the audience can see how the dishes ought to look, without waiting for them to cook or jell. On the air, Mrs. Lucas does it all over again, explaining her tricks in a no-monkey-business British accent. Her principal television bugbear is common to every kitchen: how to get everything ready at the right moment. Sometimes she has to gloss over the end of her TV bill of fare in a hurry; again, she may have to ad-lib with her eggbeater, in order to fill...
...Hartford Accent...
...caustic review of State of the Union, TIME [May 3] said that Katharine Hepburn's God-given Hartford accent was an "affectation" sounding like a "woman trying ... to steady a loose dental brace" which "limits her range of expression." This affected "bridgework" voice did not seem to limit her range of expression in Woman of the Year, in which your reviewer said she was "just right" [TIME, Feb. 16/1942], nor in The Philadelphia Story, in which he praised her to the skies [TIME...