Ever wonder about that odd accent affected by actors from Hollywood's Golden Age? (Think about Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in His Girl Friday, or Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten in Citizen Kane.) That was "Mid-Atlantic" or "Transatlantic" English, a cultivated blend of American and British English that died out in the 1960s. In this short video, Jonathan Strickland of How Stuff Works explains.