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Have any of you watched old (1930s-1940s) American movies featuring British character actors? Do you have an opinion about British stereotypes in old Hollywood? This actor played the upper-class Victorian stereotype to the hilt.
In the movie Suspicion (1941) starring Cary Grant and the late Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce played a supporting role. He must have called Cary Grant's character "Old Bean" at least a dozen times a scene!
In the movie Suspicion (1941) starring Cary Grant and the late Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce played a supporting role. He must have called Cary Grant's character "Old Bean" at least twice a minute!
Blame the scriptwriter.
For decades the English?British have been portrayed as a nation of upper class toffs with a accent that just doesn't exist.
For decades the English?British have been portrayed as a nation of upper class toffs with a accent that just doesn't exist.
While its still true in the main I think it is starting to change, slightly, now they have upper class toff or Cockney gangster!! lol, they seem to tend to think that any other Southern English accent is Australian and any Northern English accent is Scottish! :-D, I'm sure that it works both ways though, British TV probably portrays all Southern Americans as sounding like a hick :-D
While its still true in the main I think it is starting to change, slightly, now they have upper class toff or Cockney gangster!! lol, they seem to tend to think that any other Southern English accent is Australian and any Northern English accent is Scottish! :-D, I'm sure that it works both ways though, British TV probably portrays all Southern Americans as sounding like a hick :-D
I'll go along with that.
(By the way I meant to type English/British )
So, if we're talking about British charecter actors on old American films how about Charles Chaplin in his later films?
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