Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pamela is not so well suited to her role of the uneducated wife (which raised Geraldine Page to Broadway stardom): she speaks the English language far too beautifully. Her highly cultured accent would never be found in a woman who cannot even read. Still, it is a pleasure to listen to her diction...
Paul Andor recreates his original Broadway role as Mr. Lenoir, the hotel-keeper, and speaks French with a good accent. As his wife, Suzanne Caubaye speaks a pseudo-French English that has too many Yiddish touches...
...usual, it is a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction. She knows how to say "fortyoon" instead of "fawchoon," and how to put the accent on the first syllable of "despicable," where it belongs...
...message from the overseas operator-we thought -saying she had De Gaulle," Ray Katz, WMGM's program director, recalled later. "Somebody really did a great job of imitating an overseas operator, flicking connections and clicking switches. Then a voice with a strong French accent came on: 'Yes, this is General de Gaulle.' 'Please stand by, sir,' we said. Said the French voice: 'Hurry up, I'm on my way to the Assembly.' We put the telephone line...
When motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...