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Gran'ts accent

posted 15 years ago by kmevans09
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Did anyone else notice that half of the time he had an accent, but the other half of the movie he didn't??

It was quite bothersome.

[–] bootblack987 11 years ago

It was quite bothersome.

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[–] Ethereal-Cloud 10 years ago

Considering that Cary Grant was born in, and lived in the U.K. until the age of 16, his British accent sounded horribly fake.

[–] allenrogerj 9 years ago

Grant was born and lived in Bristol, which has a very different accent to the cockney he tries to use in the film.

[–] Manton29 9 years ago

Grant's accent always sounds a bit 'different', no matter what he's going for.

You either dig his unique mannerisms or you don't.

I do.

But I can't stand Danniel Day-Lewis's constant slippages into Irish accents - he killed Lincoln with the final speech.

Different strokes for different folks?

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[–] AMovieADayKeeps (19) 7 years ago

His accent was terrible as well as his acting in this. In fact the whole movie sorta sucked except for Katherine Hepburn.

[–] painbow (259) 7 years ago

Just how English are you if you leave England at 16? By the time he made this, he was only 31 but even that young, he'd already spent half his life in America.