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Just a question.
In the article, under Personal Life, there's a statement: "Van Sloan had a style of playing horror roles that was unmistakably his, speaking his lines in a slow, exaggerated European style of elocution with rolling Rs." Following this note, there's a "citation needed" reference.
This is, in Van Sloan's Universal Studios appearances, the actor's style of delivery. He employs this style in "The Mummy", "Frankenstein", and "Dracula". No one's "claiming" he delivers his lines that way; that's the way he does it, and the verification is there in any of those three films (at least.)
Is a citation of something that's apparent, in his work, actually necessary? Or should the sentence be rephrased?
I think I'm asking "How should something that's on open display be cited?" Should there be references made to the works, themselves?
Again: just a question. 2601:600:8500:53D0:1EE:FBA8:C002:34C8 (talk) 21:50, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
