Movies Popularizing Slang

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 8/18/02 12:16:53 PM, fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU writes:

<< Can anyone suggest names of movies that played significant roles in
popularizing slang expressions, such as "Clueless" or "Wayne's World"?

Fred Shapiro >>

It doesn't seem entirely out of the question that BRINGING UP BABY (1938?)
had a tiny bit to do with the spreading of one sense of the word GAY, which
at the time was virtually unknown even among homosexuals as a term meaning
'homosexual', into a broader cultural context--this despite considerable
evidence that even Cary Grant did not intend his famous ad-lib (which,
however, RHDAS lists as the first media use of GAY 'homosexual') to mean
anything other than 'frivolous; decadent'.