What a beautiful performance!
For me,this is the best thing Norma Shearer ever did.She plays it so beautifully with all the dreams and longing in her face.
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I agree although I really loved her in several other films. What was with her cousin's voice? Was she acting in baby talk or did she have an impediment?
shareI think it was an impediment but she was very flirtacious, she couldn't pronounce her R's to save her life, but I found it very cute.
shareShe's probably imitating what seems to have been a fashionable affectation at various times. Here's J.M. Barrie, introducing a character in his play, _Dear Brutus_, which was written in 1917 (James Galsworthy also has a character, in one of his Forsyte novels, who speaks like this by way of fashion):
"There remains Lady Caroline Laney of the disdainful poise,
lately from the enormously select school where they are taught to
pronounce their r's as w's; nothing else seems to be taught, but for
matrimonial success nothing else is necessary. Every woman who
pronounces r as w will find a mate; it appeals to all that is
chivalrous in man."
Thank you for this information. I watched this movie for the first time last night. I felt the cousin was speaking this way on purpose and that her speech was not due to an impediment. Thanks for the background information.
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