Lexicon Valley

E96 - Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?

Published: February 20, 2023

Duration: 34:28

An encore presentation of a much loved episode about the speech patterns of Bette Davis, George Gershwin, Louis Armstrong and countless other Americans of the 1930s. Why do they all sound like that?

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