Katharine Hepburn had an annoying voice!!

Her accent is actually authentic to how she grew up compared to most actors who learned to talk like that back then.

No this was a common lock jawed elite accent of WASPs in the north east of that time.

I thi-ink she-e soun-ds beau-ti-ful!

“Katharine Hepburn's society burr was a perfect example of the Mid-Atlantic accent. "Come round about noon, tomorrow," Hepburn trills in The Philadelphia Story (1940), a full-bodied pronunciation that turned her "o's" into "ooh's" that tumbled from her mouth, a modulation honed by her acclaimed New York dramatic coach Frances Robinson-Duff. Hepburn sought her out after being fired from her first production in 1928, when she insisted on hurriedly bleating out her lines. In a 1935 New Yorker article, a profile on Duff's diaphragmatic methods reveals a bit more about Hepburn's deficiency: "Miss Hepburn neglected the Duff fundamentals. Moreover, having been in Hollywood and away from regular instruction, Miss Hepburn had allowed her diaphragm to drift. When she returned East to do 'The Lake,' it was maladjusted and her jaws and tongue were unfree ... But Miss Hepburn has character. She immediately returned to Miss Duff and the fundamentals."”

i think you chose the wrong film to make an example of her.

she was "putting it on thick" in that film, depicting a certain class, time and place. hence the society wedding, etc.

i took it as her making mild mockery of that world.

Her voice was definitely a marker of a time and place. I think it worked most effectively in Summertime and in A Lion in Winter.

K. Hepburn just had a moderately successful thread here two weeks ago. She can't carry another one, stupid OP. Right now, it's all about Faye. She has at least 7 threads reeling at the same time, and at least one of them is a blockbuster. Faye is white hot at the moment. Leading ladies of the golden age can't fill a thread anymore for sure . Even Garland's last threads have all flopped. Fuck off OP. You're a cunt.

I. MUST. CONTROL. EVERY! THING!

I agree. But it was perfectly upper class.

I loved the way Hepburn spoke. It was her greatest asset, but also her biggest problem.

It was such a distinctive way of speaking -- and had so much baggage about class/eduction -- that it wasn't suited to many roles.

Her voice reminds me of "tappa tappa tappa"!

Do we know which British starlet’s speech she tried to emulate?

Her accent came from attending Bryan Mawr. Has nothing to do with where she grew up.

Her accent came from attending Bryan Mawr. Has nothing to do with where she grew up.

Whether or not her accent is genuine, her voice is obnoxious!

In her interview with Clive James, she said: "I can be very aggravating!" This made me like her even more.

I couldn't agree more, OP!

Hepburn's speech is a form of "Good English", a style of speaking promoted by theatrical speech coaches like Edith Skinner and Frances Robinson-Duff, that was intended to replace actors' native regional American accents so they'd all sound like they came from the same social or regional milieu.

In her a autobio, miss Dyke said that in her early days, she copied everything from some now forgotten stage actress that she worshipped, her demeanor, accent, persona, etc, for the rest of her life . I can't remember the name on her

[quote] Her accent came from attending Bryan Mawr.

Who’s he?

This thread is DOA. Hepburn is box-office poison.

You’re right, r27.

No more casting calls for the wretched wench.

Her accent was not "fake". God are you stupid,

R30 THAT would be the only thing about her that was not fake then

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