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Mid-Atlantic accent or Transatlantic accent may refer to: Good American Speech, a consciously learned American accent incorporating British features, mostly associated with early 20th-century actors and announcers; Northeastern elite accent, an accent of the Northeastern elite of the United States born between the 19th century and early 20th ...
No consistent name exists for this class of accents. It has occasionally been called Northeastern standard [4] or cultivated American speech, [2] and is more commonly recognized as a Mid-Atlantic accent, [9] [10] or Transatlantic accent—terms that in American popular culture also refer to a related accent used by early 20th-century actors and ...
The owl-faced, portly character actor with his mid-Atlantic accent and precise diction, was often cast as pompous Englishmen and other stuffy, aristocratic and bureaucratic types. He was known for his performances in such films as Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Who's Minding the Store?
It’s a mid-Atlantic accent that I’m doing, but it is hard to maintain. Every episode some of my Midwestern sound pops up. But with a voice like the one I’m using, you must take it on and ...
As the two began to read off the teleprompter, DeBose briefly paused before delivering her lines with a slightly Mid-Atlantic accent. When Quan suggested he read a speech to show his appreciation ...
While actors in theatre were once traditionally trained to have a Mid-Atlantic accent, actors in film are instead trained to have a General American accent. [citation needed] Dialect coach Robert Easton said the Mid-Atlantic accent was "too semi-British" and opted for General American. Easton commended British actors in learning American ...
Her accent is fully dignified, vaguely British and entirely fake. What we formally call the mid-Atlantic accent first came about in the era of "talkies,". or the first movies to have sound, in the ...
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; [a] January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English and American actor. Known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.