I was just watching Bringing up Baby, and really like the accent Katharine Hepburn uses at 5:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yvzACpI8Wc
please could someone tell me whether this accent really existed (I know this is not KH's real accent), it is really quite HAWT (hot - I do know how to spell) in a real aggressive sort of way.
Can I please get a response.
Is the above indicative of an accent no matter how exaggerated, I have a hard time believing it was just conjured out of thin air.
Okay you fucking shitheads dont answer then. Fuck you all.
it sounds kinda new york-ish to me
It's a good thing you brought this forward by asking again, Anglais, because it was lost in the mix. It's a bad thing you were so snappish when you had to wait.
Hepburn came from an upper-class Connecticut family. Her accent is posh Yankee, in the traditional sense of that word ~ a New Englander. (A much older sense of "Yankee" is New York Dutch colonial, but no matter.)
To top this off, she would have taken diction lessons at Bryn Mawr College, a finishing school for girls in Pennsylvania.
Much of the American moviegoing public actually disliked her accent and her "fancy way o' talkin'".