Transatlantic Accent In Classic Film
Вставка
- Опубліковано 20 січ 2023
- The transatlantic is like a funky mashup of American and British English, used mostly in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s. You can hear this accent in all sorts of films from the era, like romantic comedies, dramas, and big-budget musicals. It was the signature sound of Hollywood's Golden Age, used to give characters a fancy-schmancy, well-educated or upper-crusty vibe. Katherine Hepburn was upper-crusty and that accent came to her naturally 😂
Transatlantic accent movie clips:
THE PHILADEPLHIA STORY (1940)
FEMALE (1933)
STAGE DOOR (1937)
OUR BETTERS (1933)
LADY OF SCANDAL (1930)
Classic Shorts Playlist➡️ • Classic Hollywood Shorts
Want to talk about more classics? Check out this playlist: • Classic Film Analysis
#classicmovies #alfredhitchcock #oldhollywood
It's amazing to me and also beyond frustrating that this low effort video is getting more views per hour than the long form content that I actually spend weeks researching/writing/editing. I hate it here. Anyway, If you're a fan of classic Hollywood and like thoughtful well researched content check out my channel. www.youtube.com/@CinemaCities1978/videos
The transatlantic is like a funky mashup of American and British English, used mostly in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s. You can hear this accent in all sorts of films from the era, like romantic comedies, dramas, and big-budget musicals. It was the signature sound of Hollywood's Golden Age, used to give characters a fancy-schmancy, well-educated or upper-crusty vibe. Katherine Hepburn was upper-crusty and that accent came to her naturally 😂
Transatlantic accent movie clips:
THE PHILADEPLHIA STORY (1940)
FEMALE (1933)
STAGE DOOR (1937)
OUR BETTERS (1933)
LADY OF SCANDAL (1930)
People have the attention span of a dog seeing a squirrel these days. I had a mechanical engineering professor (15 years ago) who recognized that 6 minutes was the point where people lose focus, so he'd have us stand up and stretch for about 30 seconds. With snapchat and tiktok, that 6 minutes is now 12 seconds, unfortunately.
It'a a snappy video that makes its point quickly.
And we hate YOU here. Maybe your negativity is why you are unsuccessful
They sound more British than American.
That’s the whole point. It was made to sound that way. It was meant to be a mixture of both.
Not if you are British!
@@stevetreavett8053 I am British 🤭
Are you?
I love British accents
Im American i have 2 British buddies and they sound somewhat similar im not british but i can say from hearing the accent for 3 years this doesn't sound British it sounds like an American putting on a fake accent
I love the tone of Kathryn Hepburn's voice. She demands to be listened to.
Yeah, she thought a lot of herself. Her ego drips off the movie screen.
“If he comes I shall retire to bed until he’s gone” 😂
They all sound like “Cinderella” ❤️
True✨
because it was animated in 1950
I love the way of talking in the old films, it is clear that the actors have gone to diction lessons, so even those who, like me, do not "chews" american english too well can enjoy the film in the original language
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his short story 'The Rich Boy' (that's the one with his famous line "the rich are different from you and me.") talks about the peculiar accent of some upper-class Easterners, which he traces to them having been educated by English governesses. In later years this was called "Locust Valley lockjaw" after an area in, I think, upstate New York. The best example that many may remember is the character of Miss Hathaway, the secretary in "The Beverly Hillbillies," played by Nancy Kulp. It's a genuine accent. I went to college with someone from upstate NY and he spoke exactly that way.
When I read this I went down a rabbit hole and realized that this accent is also utilized by Frances Conroy in a lot of her American Horror Story characters.
Eleanor Roosevelt is notable for her transatlantic accent, upbringing.
I've heard "Larchmont lockjaw," also...from Larchmont Village in Westchester County, New York. Mr. Howell from Gilligan's Island being a notable example.
What is it?
Please reply, dude!
Glinda has this accent in the wizard of oz
This was an easy way for movie goers to understand the actors.
I like the fast talkers like Gable and others that could spout out pages of dialogue in a few seconds.
AND you knew exactly what they were saying.
Tom Hanks in his early days could do that.
This is how I talk after 3 Gin and Tonics…
I always think of the queen, Kat when people bring this accent up. She was so incredible ❤
In "Some Like It Hot" Jack Lemon comments on Tony Curtis's Cary Grant impersonation "Nobody talks like that!"
This is also known as the "Mid Atlantic" accent ( half way between American and English) For a good example of a male with this accent, you can't get anymore perfect Mid Atlantic than Cary Grant, who was actually Cockney English but in trying to rid himself of that accent to work in Hollywood and to refine his speech, he ended up with the perfect Mid Atlantic which is really noticeable in his early films.
Watching from New Orleans, Louisiana. Ahhh, I adore Modern English. More business can get done, punchlines could be understood, cigarettes could be smoked.,
you could drink whiskey any time of the day, drive without a seatbelt and slap women if they got too excited.
@@markmolloy1497😅
😂
@@markmolloy1497some women don't slap back, some might secretly have martial arts training and can hurt you without actually injuring you.
@@aleksandramakari my previous comment was clearly an observational bit of humour, nothing to do with advocating violence towards anyone. I was 'making fun of the past'. I don't advocate any of the things that they did do in the past - (drinking in the day, driving without seatbelts, slapping women) - those things are in the past because we made progress.
Whiskey and twiskeys🎉
…Caahn’t wait! We leave for Monte Caahrlo in the morning! 😂
So who’s here after Hazbin Hotel?
HOW THE FUCK DID YOU KNOW IM ACTUALLY TERRIFIED 😮😮😮😮
MEEEE LMAOOO-
@@mynamessharky because Alastor’s voice is so popular that everyone is trying to find the origin to it.
@@Kaution2004 I was just looking into it because I was making a 1950s oc
HOWD YOU KNOW
I’ve been trying this accent for months and I’m quite really proud of it but my family and everyone think I’m talking funny and say that I should stop I wanna cry
Don’t think what other ppl say if you do something that makes you proud. 👍🏾
@@mahdimuhammad8197 but i've heard myself in recordings speaking it and i do sound ridiculous, how do i improve it it's really hard
@@t-swizzylover3752 compare how you sound like with actual recordings of transatlantic accents and see where you can improve on. Keep trying and don’t quit. Don’t beat yourself up over it. After all this is nothing to stress over it’s just a little gimmick to make yourself proud.
Hang around different people!
Listen, you don't try to mimic a transatlantic accent. First you must perfect the upper-class British accent by listening to recordings of the likes of British royalty instead of these make believe actors. Once you've perfected that then you'll be able to seamlessly accentuate words with a little British flare when appropriate. If you can't do a perfect British accent then it will just sound like you're pretending with your transatlantic. An easy way to pick up British if you can't manage studying is to simply watch British TV like Doctor Who which is fine enough these days.
Kathryn Hepburn. Riverting personality.
Hahaha look at that phone it's huge!
😂
could probably use that as a weapon against a burglar. lmao
@@Pastadudde 😂😂😂
Bebe Glazer from Frasier
yes! 😂😂😂
I was about to say that, as a kid, I thought that Frasier and Niles were Englishmen living in Seattle. I am actually English and living in England!
Their is something kinda satisfying about the way these people speak.
The first one sounds strikingly like Moira Rose
Elegant and beautiful
Its still being used today in movies, people just dont recognize it
Hi. KH Great Actor. Unique, gorgeous accent. She does it for me
I find this topic of transatlantic accent interesting-it refreshes the conversation! 😮😮😮😮😅
the best transatlantic needs a good mix of New and Old York haha... some of these lean too british imo. kate wins this round 🔔
I don't know if they are in the same region but it reminds me alot of Major Charles from M.A.S.H.that had that Boston Brouge accent!
Grace Kelly seemed to speak like that, on film & in real life. I think she was from Upper Crust society in Philadelphia?
I heart the mid atlantic accent "Amemmericaah"😅 bit high educated american accent , bit RP Brit accent with Hint of The poshest words in Brit english ! Awesome but I cannot immitate it though ! "I Doooh" at the end , Golly Gosh😅
That's why I love the pre-code Gold Diggers of 1933, Ladies of Leisure (1930), Man's Castle (1933), etc.. The didn't do the Mid Atlantic accent. "somewhere midway between England and New England".
The trans-Atlantic accent 😊
Why are this movies not on here this is great acting
Why are these...
I'll take that phone.
Wealthy Americans educated in the UK. 🙂
Peepee and also bawls
love this
so this is how Lady Mona Megistus' speaks huh.
Also, listen to Callum Best talk! He sounds transatlantic to me.
I always wondered what that accent was called.
it's so silly but I love it 😂
@@CinemaCities1978 Daaaah-ling, it's suur-tenly mem'rable!
NEHW TAIHL MEH YEH’VE FASSEKKEN YOHH BELEVID BREETESH WHISKEHHS
When you have america. Sentences spoken in British is called transatlantic
Lol the last clip is wild :
She sounds really English in the first sentence, and then she says I do with a harsh stop.
Sounds so jarring because of the way she stretches out every word until then !
English to American
Is it just her voice that turns the trans Atlantic accent into sounding more British or what ?
She sounds almost exactly ( to the untrained ear anyway ) to someone who speaks In a British accent all her life… then that harsh “I do” sounds brutal !
It’s like an American trying to do a British accent but they have no clue what they’re doing
No, this is the american dialect of modern stationary areas, main hub talk. The Mid Atlantic accent was extremely obvious, and was spoken by british speakers. This is a very American accent at the time, don't forget that we were speaking english, dutch, and irish in the 17th century.
Icelandic ? Or New Foundland ?
When people knew how to speak, dress, and treat one another with respect !!
and didnt allow black people in restaurants 🤨
treat one another with respect, unless the person to be respected was any darker than printer paper
Exactly!
Lol. Sure in your la la land. Probably wasp
If you even do all those things perhaps you just need to move or get off the internet.
I thought Katherine Hepburn was from Connecticut.
Myeah see
So that's what it was called
Some people say this is a natural accent, but I still question that claim. Perhaps it is natural in those cases where people grew up listening to their parents speak this way, but in others, it seems more an affectation in an attempt to sound more affluent. Then there are those who's accent has been said to be transatlantic but who came by it from the other direction such as actor John Houseman, who was born in Romania to an English mother and was educated in Great Britain where he spent some years of his life before emigrating to the United States. You can hear his accent in this classic old TV ad - ua-cam.com/video/gl9Cyn266Lo/v-deo.html
Does anyone still speak like that today? Where would I hear that , Connecticut millionaires, Manhattan NY?
Maybe some people in their 70s and 80s and actors in films like “See How They Run”
@@CinemaCities1978 👍
Nobody, it was made up for the TV.
@@CinemaCities1978 No one spoke like that in the 70s and 80s except William f Buckley.
@@justmey Exactly.
It's an affectation.
Even Kate Hepburn's slipped in her old age.
Watch her in interviews when she got old and she sounds like what she was an upper east-er. No British twang.
I’m unsure why, but the way in which they speak is viscerally grating to me
Came from Shane Gillis
Can I pass IELTS tests with this accent?
Was Cary Grant’s in-person & onscreen accent considered transatlantic? He was a Brit by birth but never sounded fully British to me.?
Jack Lemon commenting on Tony Curtis's impersonation of Cary Grant in "Some Like It Hot"...."Nobody talks like that!!!!"
@@rustynail766 😂 In a movie filled with hilarious moments, that’s probably my favorite!!
Nothing American about it
I find American accents very difficult to understand and some offensive to my ears. Love that telephone.
Did people really talk like this IRL?
yes and no. . .here's a brief article that explains the origins of the accent: www.altalang.com/beyond-words/the-trans-atlantic-accent/
@@CinemaCities1978 To keep it simple, the microphone back then couldn't process the normal accent. So they mixed British and American accents which made birth to the transatlantic accent.
American’s doing British accents always sound way off- I don’t think many actors have managed to nail it. Its like Americans tend to overcompensate on certain syllables because they are so different to how an American would say them. Perhaps its less familiarity with British voices either idk.
That being said, totally not Patricia’s fault and actually think she does a good job for Zelda- she gives a performance that makes Zelda sound intelligent and wise beyond her years, yet also deeply insecure and vulnerable inside.
How about British actors imitating an American accent? Michael Cane's attenpts were pretty terrible.
I hated this accent.