She Had to Get Rid of Her Accent
Most people don’t know that Kelly had to take speech lessons to drop her Philadelphian accent. While in college, one of her professors recommended that she drop her accent because it would get in the way of her acting career.
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At acting school, her instructors told her to work on her voice and delivery. She used a tape recorder to hear herself and started working on her accent. Eventually, her speech sounded a tad British: measured and well-rounded. Speaking of accents, she perfected an Irish one when trying out for the movie Taxi in 1952.