Dream Me Up Scotty!
A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.
2013-12-23 | 59 minutes
Plot Summary
Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood's golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad!
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier
-
Dive, Dive, Dive! with Robert Llewellyn
-
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
-
Football’s Most Dangerous Rivalry
-
Be Water
-
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?
-
Showbiz Goes to War
-
Humans: an Understanding of Their End
-
Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime
-
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
-
Meet You at the Hippos
-
Cocaine: History Between the Lines
-
Montgomery Clift
-
Round About Hollywood
-
On the Trail of Ed Wood
-
The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
-
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
-
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
-
That's Entertainment!
-
That's Dancing!