# African Queen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498 "2005-08-10T19:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![YPOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@YPOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YPOD)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/1 "2005-08-10T19:43:16Z")
A friend of mine says that they filmed scences for the movie in Rhode Island. Rhode Island? IMDB says otherwise, [http://imdb.com/title/tt0043265/locations](http://imdb.com/title/tt0043265/locations) but could some minor scenes really been filmed there? ---
**Author:** ![AveDementia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/2 "2005-08-10T20:04:09Z")
According to [The Making of the African Queen by Katherine Hepburn](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394562720/qid=1123704359/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0010926-6676728?v=glance&s=books) it was all filmed in Africa, except for the parts where they’re wading in the river. Those couldn’t be done on location because of nasty parasites in the water, and were done instead in a tank in the studio. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/3 "2005-08-10T20:08:33Z")
> [@AveDementia](#): > > Those couldn’t be done on location because of nasty parasites in the water Ha! That’s pretty ironic, considering that one of the scenes in question involves them getting covered with nasty parasites from the water. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/4 "2005-08-10T20:13:05Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Ha! That’s pretty ironic, considering that one of the scenes in question involves them getting covered with nasty parasites from the water. Actually, it was just Bogart. Not that I’d have minded seeing handfuls of salt rubbed over Katherine Hepburn’s seminude body. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/5 "2005-08-10T20:41:20Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Ha! That’s pretty ironic, considering that one of the scenes in question involves them getting covered with nasty parasites from the water. And even more ironic as in one of her next films, Summertime, Katherine Hepburn had to fall in a Venice canal during the filming, and due to the pollution in the canal, she got an eye infection that ruined her eyes. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/6 "2005-08-10T20:57:28Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Not that I’d have minded seeing handfuls of salt rubbed over Katherine Hepburn’s seminude body. You’d have to deal with Spencer Tracy, pal. 🙂 What was the song Charlie Allnutt was singing in his cups? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/7 "2005-08-10T20:58:51Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You’d have to deal with Spencer Tracy, pal. 🙂 Meh, he’ll never leave his wife. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/8 "2005-08-10T21:03:47Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Meh, he’ll never leave his wife. Tough guys like Tracy and Bogart beat up whom they will, not as directed by their wives. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/9 "2005-08-10T21:18:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What was the song Charlie Allnutt was singing in his cups? [The Bold Fisherman](http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiBOLDFISH;ttBOLDFISH.html), with I think some odd lyric changes (doesn’t he say “piggy” instead of “codfish”?). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/10 "2005-08-10T23:32:45Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > [The Bold Fisherman](http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiBOLDFISH;ttBOLDFISH.html), with I think some odd lyric changes (doesn’t he say “piggy” instead of “codfish”?). I’ll have to dig out my copy, I believe it’s “To catch the bold piggy and the (something-something) do.” Thanks, Biffy! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/11 "2005-08-10T23:42:41Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I’ll have to dig out my copy, I believe it’s “To catch the bold piggy and the (something-something) do.” I remember it as “To catch the wild piggy and the gay macaroo.” Whatever that means. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/african-queen/316498/12 "2005-08-11T16:06:37Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > I remember it as “To catch the wild piggy and the gay macaroo.” Whatever that means. Yum…“the gay macaroo”…the best and tastiest part of The Gay.