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Dream Me Up Scotty

Movie"A history of the Scottish accent on television and film"
Dream Me Up Scotty
NR 59 minDocumentary
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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 Hollywoods 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
StarringAlex Norton
DirectorJohn MacLaverty

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Ewan Angus
Production Companies:BBC Scotland Hopscotch Films
Movie Tags:
hollywoodscotlandaccents