Dr Geoff Lindsey | Hollywood's "Fake" Mid-Atlantic Myth DEBUNKED! @DrGeoffLindsey | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 49 minutes ago.
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Want to know why actors in Golden Age Hollywood movies sound different from people today? A legend has grown up that it was all because an Australian and a Canadian invented a fake accent that studios forced their stars to use. Here I'll try to show why that's a load of you know what, and get closer to the fascinating reality.
(Just to be clear: Wikipedia, which I support, is an invaluable resource on languages and linguistics, but this article cited a lot of sources by non-linguists.)
0:00 Introduction
3:21 Hollywood's beginnings
4:20 William Tilly
5:16 Problems with the 'fake' story
5:48 Rhoticity
6:58 Northeastern Elite
7:55 On stage and in public speaking
8:55 Edith Skinner
9:33 Katharine Hepburn
12:31 Intermission
14:33 Aspirational Hollywood
16:00 Cary Grant & Brits
16:44 Various other accents
20:16 Nasal nonsense
21:03 Kenyon & Knott's dictionary
22:18 Towards GenAm
23:50 The monster accent
24:17 Magnificence
John McWhorter and Jessica Drake interviewed: mobituaries.com/news/death-of-an-accent
John McWhorter on American non-rhoticity: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=19486
Dudley Knight's article on Tilly & co: ktspeechwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Standard-Speech-The-Ongoing-Debate.pdf
Hepburn interviews: youtube.com/watch?v=rqFzFyWnnhs and youtube.com/watch?v=wfT_XWTldlo
Drone footage of oil fields courtesy of Alexander X youtube.com/watch?v=eaDDtimvUUQ
Thank you to the Cinema Museum cinemamuseum.org.uk
Los Angeles crew: Stewart Hoke and Steven Angelo
80,000 Hours is a nonprofit offering free research-based help on careers that make a difference. Get their in-depth guide at 80000hours.org/drgeofflindsey.
Want to know why actors in Golden Age Hollywood movies sound different from people today? A legend has grown up that it was all because an Australian and a Canadian invented a fake accent that studios forced their stars to use. Here I'll try to show why that's a load of you know what, and get closer to the fascinating reality.
(Just to be clear: Wikipedia, which I support, is an invaluable resource on languages and linguistics, but this article cited a lot of sources by non-linguists.)
0:00 Introduction
3:21 Hollywood's beginnings
4:20 William Tilly
5:16 Problems with the 'fake' story
5:48 Rhoticity
6:58 Northeastern Elite
7:55 On stage and in public speaking
8:55 Edith Skinner
9:33 Katharine Hepburn
12:31 Intermission
14:33 Aspirational Hollywood
16:00 Cary Grant & Brits
16:44 Various other accents
20:16 Nasal nonsense
21:03 Kenyon & Knott's dictionary
22:18 Towards GenAm
23:50 The monster accent
24:17 Magnificence
John McWhorter and Jessica Drake interviewed: mobituaries.com/news/death-of-an-accent
John McWhorter on American non-rhoticity: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=19486
Dudley Knight's article on Tilly & co: ktspeechwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Standard-Speech-The-Ongoing-Debate.pdf
Hepburn interviews: youtube.com/watch?v=rqFzFyWnnhs and youtube.com/watch?v=wfT_XWTldlo
Drone footage of oil fields courtesy of Alexander X youtube.com/watch?v=eaDDtimvUUQ
Thank you to the Cinema Museum cinemamuseum.org.uk
Los Angeles crew: Stewart Hoke and Steven Angelo
