Dream Me Up Scotty!
“A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.”
2013•59m•Released
Documentary
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!
Director
John MacLaverty
Studio
BBC Scotland
Cast
Alex Norton
Presenter
Production
Company
BBC Scotland
Company
Hopscotch Films
Producer
John Archer
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