cinemaspam:David’s response to Aunt Elizabeth asking him why he is wearing a woman’s dressing gown (
cinemaspam:David’s response to Aunt Elizabeth asking him why he is wearing a woman’s dressing gown (“Because I just went gay all of a sudden!”) is considered by many film historians to be the first use of the word “gay” in its roughly modern sense (as opposed to its original meaning of “happy, carefree”) in an American studio film. Among gay people, the word first came into its current use during the 1920s or possibly even earlier, though it was not popularly known as a slang term for being gay until the late 1960s. The line was not in the original shooting script for the film; it was an ad lib from Cary Grant himself. (x)Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks -- source link