Truly Scrumptious
| Truly Scrumptious | |
|---|---|
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang character | |
| First appearance | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| Portrayed by | Sally Ann Howes |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Significant other(s) | Caractacus Potts |
| Nationality | British |
Truly Scrumptious is a fictional character in the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang film and stage production based on the children's novel of the same name by author Ian Fleming.
In the film the character is portrayed by Sally Ann Howes, after it was declined by Julie Andrews. Truly Scrumptious develops a romantic relationship with the widower Caractacus Potts (played by Dick Van Dyke). The character does not appear in the original book, in which Caractacus is married to Mimsie Pott (the surname as spelled in the book). The filmmakers felt that a budding romantic relationship would serve the film better than the marriage shown in the book, and so Caractacus was portrayed as a widower.
Truly Scrumptious is introduced near the start of the film while driving her 1909 Humber motorcar through the local village, when she almost runs into two children, Jeremy and Jemima, who suddenly run out across the road in front of her, causing her motorcar to crash through a hedge and into a muddy little pond. Truly assumes they have played hooky from school and takes them home to inform their father, an absent-minded inventor named Caractacus Potts. When they arrive Truly is shocked to discover that Caractacus doesn't mind the children playing truant, and the two adults argue over his method of raising his children, before Caractacus loses his temper and Truly is forced to leave his property at once.
As it turns out, Truly is the daughter of a wealthy candy factory owner, Lord Scrumptious. When Truly visits her father at his factory the next day, she sees Caractacus there, waiting to show her father a product he has created. During this unexpected meeting she learns Caractacus is an inventor who has managed to produce 'flawed' candy tubes full of holes, a product he plans to try and sell to her father as a novelty which he calls 'Toot Sweets', as they can be played like a flute. Caractacus cannot understand why the holes keep appearing and Truly casually states that the boiling point of his sugar is too high. Caractacus, who hasn't realised yet that Truly is Lord Scrumptious' daughter, thinks that Truly is being an interfering busybody again, and starts to argue with her once more. At this point Lord Scrumptious enters, and Caractacus realises who Truly is. He thinks that he has ruined his chances of selling the sweets, when Truly unexpectedly supports him and helps him to make a successful pitch to her father (with the help of the song and dance routine ("Toot Sweets"). Lord Scrumptious is won over, but just as he is about to buy the product from Caractacus, a pack of neighborhood dogs, responding to the high pitched music notes produced by the sweets attracting the dogs, descend on the factory and Lord Scrumptious furiously fires Caractacus and ejects the Potts' family from his premises. However, Truly, who is becoming attracted to Caractacus, realises that the incident with the dogs was an accident and is still in favour of the sweets.
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