Is there an American accent that's comparable to received pronunciation in the UK?

[MrScorpio]

12. You're talking about the Mid-Atlantic English accent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_English

This article is about the dialect of English not localised to the Mid-Atlantic United States. For the dialect spoken in New York City, see New York dialect. For the dialect spoken in Philadelphia, see Philadelphia dialect. For the dialects spoken in New Jersey, see New Jersey English dialects. For the dialect spoken in Baltimore, see Baltimore dialect.

Mid-Atlantic English (sometimes called a Transatlantic accent) is a cultivated or acquired version of the English language once found in certain aristocratic elements of American society and taught for use in the American theatre. It is not a typical vernacular of any location, but rather blends American and British without being predominantly either. Mid-Atlantic speech patterns and vocabulary are also used by some Anglophone expatriates, many adopting certain features of the accent of their place of residence.

Mid-Atlantic English was popular in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the early 1960s, and continues to be associated with people such as Cary Grant,[1] Katharine Hepburn, William F. Buckley, Jr.,[2] Gore Vidal, George Plimpton,[3][4] Roscoe Lee Browne,[5] Norman Mailer,[6] Maria Callas, Patrick McGoohan, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV[7] and John Houseman. The monologuist Ruth Draper's recorded "The Italian Lesson" gives an example of this East Coast American upper-class diction of the 1940s.