{"id":2371,"date":"2009-12-06T07:53:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T07:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2009-12-06T07:55:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T07:55:03","slug":"peaches-geldoff-she-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2371","title":{"rendered":"Peaches Geldoff &#8211; she speaks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember that classic moment of history when, during one of the earliest airings of the new technology that delivered &#8216;talking movies&#8217; to the world, via (amongst other early &#8216;talkies&#8217;) the 1930 film Blue Angel, when Marlene Dietrich began speaking, one of the film critics in the audience uttered the words &#8216;Marlene speaks!&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>My, how things have progressed since then.<\/p>\n<p>In nearly 80 years we have gone from a German actress speaking almost perfect English &#8211; a language she didn&#8217;t understand at the time, having learned her words phonetically &#8211; to this:<\/p>\n<p>Press the play button and weep &#8211; 40s youtube clip&#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NgpFwzEwZa4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NgpFwzEwZa4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember that classic moment of history when, during one of the earliest airings of the new technology that delivered &#8216;talking movies&#8217; to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}