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  • Cary Grant is so adorable in this movie

  • I don't give a damn that this is historic,Cary grant is hot, he is out of the shower naked you could see the shadow of his nice ass, he's in negligee who the he'll cares about the gay term he used Cary grant is practically naked in this drools sigh.

  • "I just went GAY all of the sudden!!!" I use this for a lot of things. Lol

  • That use of the word gay was way ahead of its time. It didn't become common until after the Stonewall Riot in 1969.

  • Do you know I love Cary Grant films but have never seen Baby!!! After seeing this clip and laughing so much I am going to have to track it down!!! Hilarious!!!

  • @carterc4949 You've never seen Bringing up Baby?!

  • That line works on so many levels.

  • Cary Grant is hot!

  • Does anyone think this is funny? I just don't get it.

  • @BarnyFife1

    "Does anyone think this is funny?"

    i think it is funny & movie 1 of the best comedies ever.

    arguably the best screwball comedy.

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    since it is popular & highly rated(by both critics & public)have to conclude that vast majority of ppl think it funny.

    if you don't, obviously you have either very different sense of humor from rest of us or no humor at all.

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    @foreo @Sei1863 here hawks is deliberately emphasizing emasculation of grant's character by susan.a common theme in screwball

  • Oh he can't go outside in a bath robe! He should bring a gun with him if he's a little cold.

  • the first time I saw this I literally almost choked to death from laughing. lovelovelovelove Mr.Archibald Leach!

  • @luridlorea What, specifically? What is funny? I just don't get it.

  • @BarnyFife1 glad you took your time to reply to a random comment just to explain your absent mindedness. I fart in your general direction!

  • There's no evidence Cary Grant was gay. He's just so great that everyone wants him on their team.

  • A Tribute to Cary Grant ------> youtube.com/watch?v=unkP7hRIni­A

  • Ut2k4 zounds :D

  • Hard to say that this his use of the word "gay" here was necessarily about homosexuality. The tone and context in which he uses it seems to be analagous to "mad" or fanciful. While the clothing might suggest something by inuendo, the character's behavior didn't.

  • This is so hilarious! Great movie. Great scene. Cary Grant is the best.

  • This but made me laugh so much, it's a great movie.

  • why is there a conversation of sexual preference involved at all...what people do on their own time is their buisiness...damn...can't people accept genius without questioning life styles? if they are not felons,let it be

  • Why can't movies be made like this anymore?

  • @Veggieman87 because all the people who made them are dead

  • @Veggieman87 because people get too offended too easily. it's pathetic. no one can have a nice laugh anymore. there will never be movies like this again. these are the classics!

  • I suddenly go gay sometimes.

  • Hepburn and Grant were great together. This one of the funniest films ever made.

  • 1:05 "my goodness!" haha he's so British!

  • i want cary grant ot cum on me

  • @frackle loser

  • The best part was that she pretended not to hear him when he was right outside the door, but then miraculously heard him mumbling about the gardener after he was out of her hearing range.

  • Why is it that so many members of my own gay community insist that Kate Hepburn was "a member of the club"? She herself addressed the question in her frank autobiographical documentary, "All About Me". If you know anything about her at all, you'd know that if she were homosexual, she would have admitted it, ESPECIALLY as late as when she made the documentary.

  • @edwardjames50 she wasn't homosexual, but aparently her and Cary Grant were part of some group that supported them

  • All I can do is watch and laugh like the hysterical maniac that I am.

  • I absolutely LOVE this movie. This is such a classic! I'm glad there's a TV station like TCM too :)

  • He was so amazing, so lucky to be able to watch his work

  • 320 people just went GAY all of a sudden!

    Thank you for changing to a thumbs up/thumbs down system, YouTube. :3

  • Cary Grant, simultaneously one of the best comedic and dramatic actors of all time. LOVE this scene.

  • I ADORE this movie...Carey Grant was wonderful in comedic roles...

  • This scene is so funny!! so use to seeing Cary Grant suave, in suits and tuxedos ---- to see him in a ladies robe, with fur trim, is hilarious!

  • i believe this is the first use of "gay" to mean homosexual in pop culture 

  • OH GOD, TOO FUNNY. The cheerleader hop, the old lady, the restrained collapse onto the stairs... *wipes away tears* I should devote more of my life to watching this movie.

  • Happy or not,this clip shows Cary Garnt could handle comedy.

  • The funniest thing for me in this scene is the fact Cary Grant is wearing a fluffy bathrobe

  • Cary Grant, truly one of a kind talent.

  • Gay meant at the time happy, joyous etc.

  • @JustinsVideoCorner

    Actually, "gay" as a reference to homosexuality was used as slang in America as early as the 1920's (also, "gey"). Historically, it was also used to refer to any type of sexually deviant activity (making it a little unfair to first use it against homosexual relationships, suggesting that they're inherently lewd) as far back as the 1800's. This is the first use of the term confirmed to mean "homosexual" in a recording, actually, making it something of a historic moment.

  • @manicmuffin interesting that 'gay' here doesn't mean 'to be happy'. So 'gay' here means any deviant behavior, not necessarily homosexual in nature?

  • @SongsofInnocence

    "Gay" here means "homosexual." Etymologically speaking, the word "gay" coming to mean "homosexual" began as meaning "deviant" in the mid- to late-1800's and then referenced to homosexuality around 1910-1920 because, in the historical context, homosexuality was considered deviant. By this time, "gay" was known to reference homosexuality in certain contexts, although not as widely as today. As an interesting aside, this line was ad-libbed, not scripted.

  • @manicmuffin -- I suspect the average filmgoer of 1938 was unaware of gay meaning homosexual. More likely that understanding of the word circulated among homosexuals rather than the general public.

  • You should post this without the punchline in it.

  • That is the awesomest robe I have ever seen. <3

  • this movie made we want to punch something really hard

  • @Rosstacular This comment made me want to punch my grammar really hard.

  • @Rosstacular I'll tell you when you're older.

  • @UniformConfusion dangit i'm almost done with college! when will i be old enough!? gahhh

  • In the grand scheme of things, does it matter if Cary was gay or not? It doesn't make him any less gorgeous.

  • I LOLED like crazy XD

  • Beautiful! 

  • I understand why this guy is gay, not because he was wearing a woman's bathrobe, but because he lets the girl take a shower alone.

  • This is one CRAA-ZY movie.

    Another major fave:D

  • LOL classic!

  • It's a movie line. It is a funny movie line. And I really don't care about there being a 'straight' or 'gay' Hollywood. It's a town of people who, due to celebrity status, are never allowed to be all that different or even appear to have normal problems because they are always being watched. And not by the government. So he used an unusual term for homosexuality which would be funnier to homosexuals at the time. Good for him, branch out to all audiences. Good thinking, and good actor.

  • Why do people insist on denying intended 'queerness' in old films simply cus they're perceived to be of a more 'innocent' age. The term gay for homosexual was new at this time and both Cary Grant and Howard Hawks knew this. So using it makes the scene vague enough get past the Hayes Code - who'd NEVER allow the explicit 'queer'.

    Hawks often used sexual innuendo - see also The Big Sleep and Red River (the gay scene where they compare guns like they were their dicks) and 'Baby' is no exception.

  • @foreo I completely agree! Gays have always been in the entertainment industry, who really thinks they were kept out of the film world back then? You'd really like "The Celluloid Closet", it's an absolutely amazing documentary about how homosexuality has been represented in film since the twenties, and its the reason I'm looking up this movie now!

  • @Sei1863 I've seen 'The Celluloid Closet'. It's a great doc for reference and is hugely entertaining. It reminds me why I have been a lifetime obsessive about all things cinema - it's all very queer! But the second half of the film lets things down by championing a humourless political correctness that I don't aspire to. I don't think the writers appreciate the paradox of censorship of Hollywood's golden age: it made film-makers work harder to be subtle - enriching films with depth & subtext

  • I doubt he was saying "I suddenly became a homosexual". More likely he meant, "I had a sudden impulse to do something silly" -- hence the leap into the air.

    A funny (and memorable) scene, either way.

  • Whoa! At 0:30, there is a very nice view of some 'Cary' thigh! :)

  • I watched this movie earlier and I'm not really a fan of vintage cinema but this movie was so damn funny!

  • Cary Grant was a homosexual in real life.

  • @JuanMacready - No he wasn't!!! I really don't think that all those women he married would have accepted sexless marriages, not even to be married to Grant. And I've heard Betsy Palmer (wife #4, I think) talk about how much time they spent in bed together. They certainly weren't playing tiddly-winks. If anything, he might have been bi. And who cares? He was born Archie Leach, a terrific actor and a self-made man, whose greatest creation was "Cary Grant".

  • He admitted his first two marriages were largely sexless disasters.

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  • @moushka26 drake. betsy drake.

  • @JuanMacready he was bisexual. He likes women AND men

  • @skatapoopy Wish there were more hot & sexy bisexual men like him, but instead be 'out' free to love and commit and not live in denial forced to gay or straight and lie to lovers or abandon them due to social pressures.

    btw - Drake always seemed rather boyish and dykey and Grant stayed married to her the longest and reportedly fucked the most. Which is why I ship Hepburn and Grant because of their fluid sexuality and auras overlapped in the male/female.

  • @JuanMacready No he wasn't, just rumors, as far as I know.

  • @moviehypno23 What about his secret marriage to Randolph Scott?

  • @JuanMacready Ohhh I honestly never heard of that, when did that happen?

  • @moviehypno23 In Mexico.

  • @JuanMacready Like anyone cares. People love to prance around among the notables of history, and grab a name here and a name there to throw into their little Special Causes bucket, and there's no need for it. It doesn't make Abe Lincoln more interesting to claim he had acromegaly (send donations now!) nor does it tell us a thing about English history to assert that the pusillanimous Edward II of England was gay. It just validates you in your own eyes. Go away.

  • @blessedalcuin The draft dodging coward Cary Grant lived with his gay lover Randolph Scott for twelve years.

  • Favorite scene.

  • *ROFLMAO* Get me every time!!!

  • That is freaking funny right there.

  • Funny all over. It's not just yelling that he just went gay all of a sudden, but the springy jump and the pouffy little robe make it priceless.

  • I'm related to him. ;-)

  • I love so many Cary Grant movies.. hard to choose.. but this one clip is very funny. I also love Katharine Hepburn...

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  • hilarious, maybe the best comedy ever put on celluloid

  • love the jump, it made me jump :L

  • at 0:08 look at his arms... o-o

  • strangely enough he still looks hot lol

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  • Oh my god!! I just died!! XD

  • "how can all this happen just to one person"

    by the end of the film that question is worth a miliion dollars

  • LOVE IT LOVE IT! I like how when I was a kid and watches this I never noticed the gay line. Thanks for posting!

  • @tonkahoosier Love the way she jumps too :-D

  • My favorite actor and actress of all time....have all their movies and Philadelphia Story is my favorite...he was so gorgeous he'd make any clothes look good :)

  • I would date and fall for either of those two at the drop of a hat they were both so cool, hip & sexy, Cary and Katharine. I love watching their movie when their together, but mostly love watching Grant's. Didn't like Hepburn and Tracy.

  • @klyana130 Historical context the Film Codes were being introduced , Hollywood was filled with liberal homosexual artist communities. Hepburn and Grant were well known in those circles but no one ever admitted openly anything back then as famous actors. It was a career killer. Scandal mags were everywhere over morality crap. By saying "gay' Cukor and Grant purposely wink wink nudge joke wearing a woman's bathrobe as if he was homosexual NOT because he went 'HAPPY'=gay suddenly

  • Being out is arguably still a career killer today . . .

  • @ianmaphet Noticed your comment that the word gay only came into general use for homosexuals 20 years ago. I can remember it being used to describe a homosexual in my first year of high school, in 1971. And, it was consistently used as a description in the media or where-ever. I had always had the impression that it was in the late 60's or early 70's that the term began its use but if it was around longer than that, then I wouldn't know.

  • @klyana130

    The movie was directed by Howard Hawks, and there's nothing gay about him. If Grant was gay, given the time he wouldn't have pranced around in a negligee.

  • @iGermanicus Your comments have to mean about straight Hollywood people KNOWING about gay culture that was all around them or making subtle gay joke about a filmed situation based on having known and had gay friends and colleagues? Say something that makes sense or has a point. Yours does NOTHING to counter the FACT this scene is Grant's character making a gay joke about his having to wear a woman's frilly bathrobe. FACT it says nothing about actual sexuality of either director or actor.

  • @klyana130 what the heck dude? this is a Howard Hawks film. It was only by the mid-20th century, mainly 60s, that the word gay meant homosexuality.

  • @klyana130 this is a matter of debate, son any one could argue it one way or another. But this is not a Cukor film.

  • @klyana130 ~ George Cukor had nothing to do with this movie. It was directed by Howard Hawks, who wasn't even close to being gay.

  • "You can hear what you want to hear!" "Really I can't! What did you say?"

  • LMFAO this is hilarious

  • the most funny film in the world!!

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Apparently because of this line, there was some controversy about the use of the word 'gay' meaning homosexual - how 'Old Hollywood'! That's such an old-fashioned problem... I love Katharine Hepburn

  • I just went GAY all of a sudden

    rotfl xD

  • It's the jump that makes it funny. Combined with the robe, of course.

  • gorgeous! :D

  • ahahaha fabulous

  • Ha, ah man, this my friends is classic comedy.

  • this this film is class!

  • 1:34

  • Cary Grant was a homosexual. The gay reference was a deliberate ad lib.

  • my grandfather's cousin was Cary Grant's first wife [Virgina Cherrill]... she divorced him because he was gay, but she did have a miscarriage while they were married.

  • Hi Miles! I'm unintentionally stalking you! -Molly

  • Cary Grant is awesome.

    'nuff said

  • Of course, Hollywood insiders know that one of Cary's earliest loves was his longtime "roommate", the ever-so-virile cowboy actor, Randolph Scott. They were beautiful together. So what?

  • I once saw Randolph Scott at Dodger Stadium (around 1979) with a girl about 18-20 who was clearly NOT his granddaughter, judging from the way they were making out.

    Life and sexuality isn't so simple after all.

  • Of course, I meant to day "aren't" or "ain't" so simple.

  • And I meant to say "say."

    I have blisters on my fingers from my keyboard tonight.

  • Yeah sure, an 80-year-old man.

  • He wasn't 80 at that time. He was 74. He was born in 1905. And the Phillies were visiting Dodger Stadium and we were right over the visitors' dugout, and Tim McCarver came out to shake his (and the girl's) hand and say hello.

    Why don't you send McCarver an e-mail when he broadcasts the World Series this year, and ask HIM? Have it put on nationwide T.V. Go ahead. I dare you.

  • Randolph Scott was born in January 1898, he would have been 81 in 1979.

  • Then we have dueling sources. Not unusual when it comes to Hollywood birthdates.

  • Scott might have knocked a few years off his career since he was already 29 when he started acting.

  • Maybe you're thinking of Joel McCrea, who was born in 1905.

  • Yes, McCrea for sure was born in 1905. But the sources seem to differ about Randolph Scott. The on-line AllMovie Guide, for example, says that he was born in 1903 (which differs from what even I recalled) and that he lied about his age to enlist for WW I at age 14. Either way, you'll have to take my word for what I saw at Dodger Stadium that night, because it was just two rows down from me. Tim McCarver seemed to be (and I know I was) surprised, and I daresay, jealous.

  • Oh, they made them different back in the days! Cary Grant was a true moviestar, and an awesome actor! This always makes me laugh :)

  • 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 archaic meaning of "happy, carefree") in an American studio film. Among homosexuals, the word first came into its current use during the 1920s or possibly even earlier, though it was The line was not in the original shooting script for the film; it was an ad lib from Cary Grant himself.

  • Well then, Grant was certainly aware of both meanings.

  • Cary Grant maybe aware of the terms, but I do not believe he intended meaning he was for homosexual or his character was gay or homosexual.

    He had thing of Sophia Lorean, he had a affair with her which he never gotten over in 1950's.

  • Grant had plenty of gay friends.

  • In 1970's or 1980's Cary Grant sued someone for calling him a homosexual, he won the court case.

  • Yes and Liberace won his case as well.

  • Liberace's true sexuality was further muddled in the public's mind by his public friendships and romantic links with actress Joanne Rio (whom he claimed he nearly married), skater Sonja Henie, aging Hollywood icon Mae West,

  • Grant was married five times, and was dogged by rumors that he was bisexual.

    He eloped with Dyan Cannon on July 22, 1965 in Las Vegas. Their daughter, Jennifer Grant, was born prematurely on February 26, 1966. He frequently called her his "best production", and regretted that he had not had children sooner.

  • Was the child even his? I heard that years of chain smoking and hard drinking damaged his sperm.

  • On 11 April 1981 Grant married long-time companion, British hotel PR agent Barbara Harris, who was 47 years his junior. They renewed their vows on their fifth wedding anniversary.

    Jennifer Grant 's parents divorced when she was two years old, but she had a close relationship with her father for the rest of his life.

  • Oh puh-LEEEZ.

  • 1930 Queer was the word for homosexuals.

  • Gay meant homosexual even then.

  • Gay mean happy merriment not homosexual.

  • Queer was the common word of the 1930's. Gay was used in 1960's to mean homosexual.

  • Gay has meant homosexual since the early 20th century.

  • I am currently looking at dictionary on the word gay- did not start meaning homosexual until 1960. In 1930 it meant Merriment,joy, eccentric.

  • I suggest you check the debate about this on the imdb. Gay has been used to describe homosexuality since before this film. Grant added it as an ab lib and he was certainly aware of his various connotations.

  • # Characterized by joyful exuberance: blithe, blithesome, boon2, convivial, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful. See happy/unhappy.

    # Full of color: bright, colorful, rich, vivid

    Queer was word for homosexual in 1900's

    waiting 42nd street waiting on a bus, means he was saying he was prostitute

  • IMDB_Among homosexuals, the word first came into its current use during the 1920s or possibly even earlier, though it was not widely known by heterosexuals as a slang term for homosexuals until the late 1960s.

  • at the time of the movie the word wasn't mainstream, but very much known amongst the gay community.

  • 1930's gay meant care free, jovial or happy, good-spirited brilliant in color, given to or abounding in social or other pleasures, licentious; dissipated; wanton: The baron is a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies.

  • Often spoke of Cary Grant's relationship with Sophia Loren as one of the most passionate romances in his life.

  • great scene!!!!!!!!

  • there's**

  • Cary Grant is so funny, handsome, and charming all at the same time. Theirs just no-one else like him!

  • for now, this movie is incredibly tame, but in 1938, the production code was very strict. i am surprised that a lot of this movie got through. later on in the movie, cary grant calls a character 'mighty white'. and this whole 'went gay' line. plus, cary was pretty well exposed there for a second.