Today is Marlene Dietrich’s birthday – we can’t just let it pass like that, can we?
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Marlene Dietrich’s Birthday
Transatlantic English
Now this is quite interesting.
As anyone with an interest in old time radio and old movies, I had noticed the unusual pronunciation – and I’m pretty sure, as a non-native speaker, a bit of it probably rubbed off on me.
But now, here’s an explanation of why they spoke that way.
Enjoy!
At the movies for Christmas
Back when I was a kid, Christmas meant a night at the movies, or a night at the circus.
Now circuses are out of fashion, but movies are still all-right.
The only problem is, here where I live, there’s only two cinemas, and they are showing the latest Hollywood blockbuster (you know, the new Star Wars movie) and one of the stupid stupid stupid comedies that are the only thing that gets produced in Italy for the festive season.
But thank goodness there’s the web.
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