November 11, 1958 –
The (relatively unknown yet hysterical) British-comedy The Horse’s Mouth, starring Alec Guinness, opened in the US on this date.
Alec Guinness felt that an educated accent for Gulley Jimson would be suited to an artist, but was not right for an eccentric. “So I tried to find a voice in which no one would be able to detect an accent of any sort, a kind of gritty, rough manner of speaking. When I found it, I felt myself free to just relax on that and say the lines as they came.”
The Haus of Dcaligari 