The Typical American Girl (1929)
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wow!!! I actually look a lot like her. My mother says as i get older i look more and more like my grandmother during the 20's and 30's (after she married my grandfather a solider in WWI) i miss my grandmother terribly. I love seeing things like this that remind me of my family and heritage. As genertions go we're not remotely typical, as what is "so long ago" for us is very recent.
Elewyn 1 year ago
Often people from back then have a cadence like they are reciting a letter that they just received from someone. I watch a lot of old movies and this girl sounds like Marion Davies did in her first talking pictures, but then again maybe you could say that Marion sounded like this 'all American girl'. The ' hammy' way she is talking near the end is very typical of how many younger women exaggerate. Perhaps that has always gone on. I hope because this is the salt of the earth.
paulj0557 1 year ago
Her accent is typical standard american.
MPL029 1 year ago
she is American you can be sure of that , a British woman would never say be back real soon . women did sound very different 80 years ago . i do not think it is the audio , people just sounded different then . thanks wonderful clip
bearcub410 2 years ago 2
Edna is as American as apple pie but I wonder if she would choose that name today? Erich von Stroheim (Austrian) famously wore a monocle.
fatsfan70 2 years ago
The "accent" may simply be an artificial way of speaking in which she was trained for the job.
The BBC does this with their newscasters, I understand.
BardCoennius 2 years ago
Funny how the microfones made people sound back then:p
luvebug21 2 years ago
The voice sounds more Northeastern prep school to me. She has a lot of charm, though, which shows through despite her performing a prepared speech. You know, I have never seen anyone, English or American, wearing a monocle (outside of TV and films of course).
smurfswacker 2 years ago
I love this! My son asked me once why it seemed that folks in the old movies sounded so different and almost "British" compared to modern people. I think we were watching "It's A Wonderful Life" at the time. Even my grandmother who is 95 and from the same area as myself has a more correct way of speaking.
GenteelPoverty 2 years ago
because people back then talked more properly. and anyway, i think her accent is just southern american.
peacefrog1969 2 years ago