her manner of speech
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mary Steenburgen
tarkusss2002 — 17 years ago(August 04, 2008 05:23 AM)
I noticed so many people seem irritated with her voice/speech, I'm not at all, I'm a fan, but I think what's bothering people is the way she drops her "ing". As in "I'm going away" she says "I'm goin away". She never pronounces the ing! Never!
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brookslj — 17 years ago(August 08, 2008 09:46 AM)
She is from Arkansas after allI like the way she talks. I think she b68has such a soft motherly voice. I really liked her character in StepBrothers actually
Of course, I'm from Texas so her accent is more familiar to me. I don't really think much of it and it isn't as thick as some Arkansans I've heard! -
xMartyMcFlyx — 16 years ago(August 20, 2009 08:01 PM)
I love her voice. I find it very attractive. It cracks every few sentences, which is sexy
I thought I was the only person in the world who thought that, its weird right?
She has this like, 50 something hot mom thing about her. I love her voice, it's endearing. She's just such a nice actress.
Last Movies Seen:
District 9: 7/10
A Perfect Getaway: 7/10
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pbyhistorian — 16 years ago(February 14, 2010 01:53 PM)
Ms. Steenbergen is just a few years older than I am, and I first saw her in 1979 (Time after Time) when we were both much younger. I guess I'm lucky to see her other than just "motherly": she was beautiful then and is still beautiful now (to my older eyes).
To tell the truth, I thought her kind of plain in 1979 but her way of talking was absolutely captivating; her beauty "grew" the more I listened to her and watched 5b4how she expressed herself.
But I'm really writing because I just watched "The Devil and Miss Jones" with Jean Arthur and she reminded me of Mary. I've never met anyone who talks even remotely like Mary Steenbergen; I wonder if she was perhaps a fan of Jean's. -
g_ann — 15 years ago(May 18, 2010 04:35 PM)
I just watched a rerun of Law & Order SVU, where she played a narcissistic mother who killed two of her children, and tried to blame the murders on her daughter (played by Martha Plimpton) and her mother (Estelle Parsons). No more honeyed southern accent, just a hard-edged working class New Yawk accent with long, nasal vowels!
I do like her natural voice, though. And I loved her in Elf, where I don't think she sounded very southern. -
Arthur_Desmond — 15 years ago(May 20, 2010 01:07 PM)
In "Time after time" she sounded awful, almost as if she were drunk or something.
You just don't speak in that monotone, slow, dragging tone in real life. Especially if you're being held with a knife on your throat by Jack the Ripper in front of H.G. Wells.
