OldStrummer
Practically Family
- Messages
- 552
- Location
- Ashburn, Virginia USA
Cagney, Robinson, Warren William, and others of that school were among the few Broadway actors who caught on, perhaps because they each had very distinctive speech habits instead of the elocution-school "Kansas City British" that the producers thought talkie audiences wanted.
I always wondered what that odd-sounding accent was called. No one I knew growing up spoke with that kind of accent. Thanks!