Good enough movie, though it does take some shortcuts for dramatic effect, but it doesn't spoil the enjoyment of the movie.
Kerry Condon plays Eisenhower's secretary/driver Kay Summersby in the movie, and when I heard her speaking with her normal (?) Irish accent, I have to admit I thought her American accent was way off !
I then double checked who Summersby was and I was surprised to discover Summersby was actually
Kathleen Helen Summersby BEM (née MacCarthy-Morrogh; 23 November 1908 – 20 January 1975) born in Schull/Ballydehob, Co Cork of the MacCarthy Reagh line / Anglo Irish
She was the daughter of Donald Florence MacCarthy-Morrogh and Vera Mary MacCarthy-Morrogh (née Hutchinson). Her father, descended from the MacCarthy Reagh princes of Carbery, was originally from County Kerry, and her mother was born in Wales,[2] as the fourth of five sisters, to an English father and Irish mother who was also descended from the Morrogh family.
She kept the Summersby name after she divorced her first husband,
So it's understandable for Condon to have had an Irish accent, although in truth, Summersby had an Anglo Irish/British accent.
Kerry Condon plays Eisenhower's secretary/driver Kay Summersby in the movie, and when I heard her speaking with her normal (?) Irish accent, I have to admit I thought her American accent was way off !
I then double checked who Summersby was and I was surprised to discover Summersby was actually
Kathleen Helen Summersby BEM (née MacCarthy-Morrogh; 23 November 1908 – 20 January 1975) born in Schull/Ballydehob, Co Cork of the MacCarthy Reagh line / Anglo Irish
She was the daughter of Donald Florence MacCarthy-Morrogh and Vera Mary MacCarthy-Morrogh (née Hutchinson). Her father, descended from the MacCarthy Reagh princes of Carbery, was originally from County Kerry, and her mother was born in Wales,[2] as the fourth of five sisters, to an English father and Irish mother who was also descended from the Morrogh family.
She kept the Summersby name after she divorced her first husband,
So it's understandable for Condon to have had an Irish accent, although in truth, Summersby had an Anglo Irish/British accent.
