Re: Best/Worst American Accents By Brits

On May 30, 11:59 am, Horace LaBadie
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On May 29, 11:57 pm, Horace LaBadie
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On May 29, 5:13 pm, Horace LaBadie <hwlabadi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But then there was the time the BBC tried to do a Kaufman & Hart show-
biz drama about Hollywood, but they cast the fellow who had been such
a magnificent Lord Peter Wimsey (why didn't they ever make the rest of
the novels? Glenda Jackson would have been a perfect Harret Vane) as
the main character, and he didn't have the foggiest idea of how an
American sounds or moves.

They did, in 1987-88 with Peter Wimsey played by Edward Petherbridge and
Harriet Vane played by Harriet Walter.

Physically, Petherbridge was more like the literary figure than Ian
Carmichael, but not nearly as good in the role.

Maybe that's why however many he made didn't show up on American
TV ... or on American DVD.

Ran on PBS Mystery.

DVDs are available. Here's the link to the PBS site's store.

<http://www.shoppbs.org/>

Search for Dorothy L. Sayers.

"wimsey" gets three hits, "sayers" three, one of them irrelevant.
Hardly 14 titles betwen the two actors!

For the seven major works in the Wimsey corpus, 14 seems adequate.
Carmichael did four: Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the
Bellona Club, Murder Must Advertise, and The Nine Tailors. Petherbridge
did the remaining three, Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy
Night, in the latter of which Wimsey is more or less an appendage, a
selling point for the publisher to advertise it as a "Lord Peter Wimsey
Mystery."

How can you claim there are "seven major works"? There are (IIRC) 14
novels, plus one that was left in partial manuscript and completed
from notes, plus another that was the complete creation of the woman
who did the earlier completion; plus the volume of short stories.
.
"Busman's Honeymoon" I don't think was ever adapted for television,
although there is a movie, a play, and an audio cassette version
(Carmichael reading).-
.