If you have a good ear, I would suggest you check some videos out that will
enable you to immerse yourself in Cockney dialect (which is what Nancy in
Oliver spoke). Try the following:
OLIVER! - there is a movie of the music, which was quite good
ALFIE - with Michael Caine
SYLVIA SCARLETT - with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant; Grant and several
of the other characters speak with thick Cockney accents
MONA LISA - with Bob Hoskins, who has the accent you want to emulate
PYGMALION - with Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard: Hiller's Eliza Doolittle
is definitely "high Cockney" before her transformation - as is her father,
played by Wilfrid Lawson
MY FAIR LADY - Not so much for Audrey Hepburn's attempt at Cockney, but for
Stanley Holloway's very realistic Cockney as Alfred Doolittle.
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB - with Alec Guinness, Stanley Hollaway, and others
THE ENTERTAINER - with Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, et al
Karen Mercedes
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