SOMETHING SHOCKING FOR WILLIE SCOTT

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We have a request by for Kate Capshaw in her role as Willie Scott from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom being kidnapped.

Kate Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail in Fort Worth, Texas, to Beverley Sue (Simon), a beautician and travel agent, and Edwin Leon Nail, an airline employee. Capshaw worked as a teacher with an MA in Learning Disabilities. Her desire to be an actress led her to New York where she landed a role on the soap The Edge of Night (1956). She met her future husband, Steven Spielberg while beating out 120 actresses for the female lead in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).

Wilhemina "Willie" Scott was an American singer and actress who found a measure of success in Shanghai in the early 1930s until she ran into the archaeologist Indiana Jones, who managed to drag her into a near-fatal encounter with the barbaric Thuggee cult led by Mola Ram.

Wilhemina Scott was born between 1910 and 1915. She was raised by her family on a farm in Missouri, but from a young age her ambitions lay firmly in Hollywood. While her parents were poultry farmers, one of her grandfathers had been a stage magician. While she cared for him a great deal and he was a popular entertainer among children, Willie's grandfather died penniless, which steeled her resolve against living in such reduced circumstances.

Having won a beauty contest, Willie tried to make a career as a singer, dancer and actress, but was unable to break into the American film industry during the Great Depression, and also struck out in Chicago and New York City. Scott escaped to the Far East, where she landed roles in several Shanghai productions. Her efforts earned her the attention of local Chinese crime lord Lao Che, who hired her as a singer for his popular nightspot, Club Obi Wan.

Across her career, Scott claimed to have met Chicago gangster Al Capone and was a personal dinner guest of Chinese president Chiang Kai-Shek.

In 1935, Scott — now known by her stage name, Willie — had just completed her main role in singing a Mandarin version of Cole Porter's Anything Goes when she joined the table of her boss, Lao Che, who was in negotiation with the archaeologist Indiana Jones. Not realizing the seriousness of the situation, she made light of Jones' profession. When Kao Kan drew a revolver on Jones, Jones grabbed a long fork to take Scott hostage. After Jones was poisoned, Scott scrambled around looking for the misplaced diamond, while Jones sought the antidote. Scott found the vial of antidote and slipped it into her dress. As gunfire erupted, Jones cut a gong loose, and rolled it toward a window, grabbing Scott, and escaped to the street.

In Short Round's car, Scott proved to be unhelpful by accidentally losing Jones' revolver, and was dismayed when Jones reached into her dress to retrieve the antidote. As they reached Nang Tao Airport, Art Weber recognized her as he helped them board a plane to escape. After the plane took off, she had some angry words for Jones, claiming that he couldn't take his eyes off her. She changed out of her evening dress into Jones' more functional dinner jacket and pants, after he changed into his adventuring gear.

Waking up on the flight, Scott discovered that the pilot and co-pilot had abandoned the plane. She woke up Jones, who realized that the plane was going to crash without fuel. Grabbing onto Jones, she and Short Round leaped out of the plane, her screaming all the way down, and used an inflatable raft to safely land and skid down the mountains into a river in India. They ended up in Mayapore village, which had been devastated by the theft of their sacred stone (in reality one of the  Club Sankara Stones) and their children by the nearby Thuggees at Pankot Palace. Indy agreed to help and they set off on elephants towards the palace; during the journey, Willie tried to improve the smell of her elephant by spraying it with her perfume, only for it to knock her into a pond which caused her to go into hysterics. Her dislike for wild animals was only increased that night when several exhibits of jungle life scared her half to death and her elephant kept nuzzling her with its trunk.

Reaching Pankot Palace, she was relieved for the nicer amenities, but was disgusted by menu of exotic foods at the Guardian of Tradition Dinner, like Primate Parfait. Jones was later able to provide her with an apple. A fledgling romance between Scott and Jones stalled abruptly when Willie nearly became the victim of human sacrifice, perpetrated by the underground Thuggee cult and its maniacal leader, Mola Ram.

Just as Scott was being lowered into a pit of molten lava, Indy and Short Round came to her rescue. With the aid of Captain Blumburtt and his Eleventh Poona Rifles, Pankot Palace was freed from the grip of Ram and the Thuggee.

Willie Scott had a fondness for diamonds and a fear of insects. She could speak some Chinese in addition to her native English. Indiana Jones recorded a list of pros and cons about Scott in his journal - with "Speaks her mind" as both a pro and a con.

Traveling in India, Scott felt out of her element, being forced to rough it, and shrieking or fainting every time something frightened her. Disliking the smell of her elephant, she dumped her entire bottle of perfume on the head of her mount - though her elephant ended up dumping her in a puddle. She had an impressive screaming ability, as noted by Indiana Jones, as she was able to scream without stopping as they plunged out of a plane and when encountering several jungle animals.