Accents in "The Aviator"

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the lovely and talented latet
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[nq:1]Hi, I've just seen "The Aviator" and I was surprized by a strange accent that Cate Blanchett (playing Katharine Hepburn) was speaking. What kind of accent was that? I've never heard anything as strange (in a freaky way) as that. Was it real?[/nq]
Kate Hepburn had a thick New England accen

[nq:2]Hi, I've just seen "The Aviator" and I was surprized ... strange (in a freaky way) as that. Was it real?[/nq]
She spent a lot of time watching Hepburn movies to get it right, she said in a recent tv interview. I've not seen The Aviator so I don' t know how well she did.
A friend was in it. I got great fun out of congratulating his hair on winning a BAFTA. (Hair and make-up, in fact.)

[nq:1]Hi, I've just seen "The Aviator" and I was surprized by a strange accent that Cate Blanchett (playing Katharine Hepburn) was speaking. What kind of accent was that? I've never heard anything as strange (in a freaky way) as that. Was it real?[/nq]
It was clearly an effort to copy the sort of accent Hepburn used in her movies. I believe it matched her real-life accent (based on some interv

[nq:1]Kate Hepburn had a thick New England accent.[/nq]
I'm not sure this is correct. Her stage accent didn't sound like any sort of conventional New England accent (compare it, say, to the accent of John F. Kennedy). Moreover, she was apparently from the Hartford, Conn. region, and I think that's in the western New England dialect group, which is unrelated to the stereotypical accents of East

In our last episode,
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the lovely and talented Areff
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[nq:2]Kate Hepburn had a thick New England accent.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not sure this is correct. Her stage accent didn't sound like any sort of conventional New England accent (compare ... of eastern Connecticut where you do hear that sort of accent, near where Massachusetts, Connecti

[nq:2]I'm not sure this is correct. Her stage accent didn't ... accent, near where Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island come together.[/nq]
[nq:1]Neither Kennedy nor Hepburn spoke the "Down East" or "Yankee" New England accent, but both of them spoke a variety ... less typical, but is now more familiar - partly for having so many of its atypical features subjected to parody.[/nq]
I

[nq:1]With Hepburn, however, there's no "Boston-ish" quality to hear speech at all. And again, she wasn't from coastal New England.[/nq]
I know a woman with an speaking manner similar to Hepburn's. This woman is in her seventies and has lived in New England for a long time. I think she's originally from California, from a well-off family.

SML

[nq:2]Hi, I've just seen "The Aviator" and I was surprized ... strange (in a freaky way) as that. Was it real?[/nq]
[nq:1]It was clearly an effort to copy the sort of accent Hepburn used in her movies. I believe it matched ... of her I once saw), but it's possible that her real-life accent was itself an acquired one, so to say.[/nq]
She's often said to have had a Bryn Mawr accent (that bei

[nq:1] In her era, most American actresses tried for somesort of "mid-Atlantic accent," [/nq]
You mean, like, Delaware?
\\P. Schultz

[nq:1](1) Unlike in the UK, there aren't really any colleges in the US that have their own accents. Discuss.[/nq]
There are no colleges in the UK that have their own accents. Discuss with illustrations.

John Dean
Oxford