Season 28, Day 20 - "Steamboat Quizzie"

It's "Queen" week, and today's quiz is inspired by The African Queen.

The African Queen

"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above."

The African Queen is a 1951 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Based on the WWI-set C.S. Forester novel of the same name, it tells the story of uncouth but courageous riverboat captain Charlie Allnut (Bogart) and strait-laced missionary Rose Sayer (Hebpurn). While the two escape from danger on the title steamboat, Rose persuades Charlie to attack a German gunship. Of course, the two unlikely companions fall in love along the way. The film was directed by John Huston, whose actress daughter Anjelica was born during filming. It was co-written by James Agee, who won a Pulitzer for his autobiographical novel A Death in the Family. The film earned Humphrey Bogart his only Oscar (Hepburn was nominated, but The African Queen was not one of her record four Best Actress wins). Partly shot on location in the Belgian Congo (modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo), the movie is said to have been an inspiration for Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise. Katharine Hepburn wrote a book about working on the film titled The Making of the African Queen: or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind. The mismatched couple played by Bogart and Hepburn in the movie were originally slated to be Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty) and his wife Elsa Lanchester (Bride of Frankenstein).