Dream Me Up Scotty!
Dream Me Up Scotty!

Dream Me Up Scotty!

December 23, 2013 | 59 min

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!

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Documentary

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Naomi Scott

Alex Norton

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