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Where Does That Katharine Hepburn Accent Come From?

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant have a few things in common; not only were they popular actors during Hollywood's Golden Age, but they both used a way of speaking known as the Mid-Atlantic or Transatlantic accent. Although Hepburn was American and Grant was from England, you wouldn't know it by the way they spoke. By using the Mid-Atlantic accent, the top actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, like Hepburn and Grant, hid the dialect of their natural voice and adopted a fabricated accent that is hard to place.

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  • Originally Aired June 21, 2023
  • Runtime 11 minutes
  • Created July 14, 2023 by
    josh42
  • Modified July 14, 2023 by
    josh42