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πŸ”΄ 🎬 πŸŽ₯ Hollywood’s “Fake” Mid-Atlantic Myth DEBUNKED!

Want to know why actors in Golden Age Hollywood movies sound different from people today? A legend has grown up that it was all because an Australian and a Canadian invented a fake accent that studios forced their stars to use. Here I’ll try to show why that’s a load of you know what, and get closer to the fascinating reality.

length: twenty six minutes and one second.

πŸ”— youtube.com/watch?v=9xoDsZFwF-

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