Too darn hot

[nq:1]the first song of "Kiss me Kate", the musical, is "Too darn hot". What's the meaning of this title?[/nq]
Darn is an old and semigenteel form of damned,
used as an all-purpose intensifier e.g.
he drove darn fast, she is darn pretty, etc.
Cole Porter is a truly interesting prosodist i.e.
wrote tricky rhythms and rhymes better than
any contemporary, e.g. "Too Darn Hot."

[nq:2]the first song of "Kiss me Kate", the musical, is "Too darn hot". What's the meaning of this title?[/nq]
[nq:1]Darn is an old and semigenteel form of damned, used as an all-purpose intensifier e.g. he drove darn fast, she ... wrote tricky rhythms and rhymes better than any contemporary, e.g. "Too Darn Hot." Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)[/nq]
I had the great privile

[nq:1]I had the great privilege of seeing "Kiss me Kate" on opening night. The cast, headed by Alfred Grant, was superb.[/nq]
Alfred Grant is my wife's cousin, an orthopedic surgeon.

The guy who starred in the first performances of KMK was Alfred Drake. See
. There's an original cast recording in which he has several numbers.
[nq:1]KMK was such a hit Hollywood decided to make

[nq:1]The second film version, with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, was indeed Bowdlerized. The "damned" became "darn", and in Kate's ... the line "Of course, I'm awfully glad that Mother had to mary Father" the "had" was changed to "deigned". Yech![/nq]
How did they handle "His business is the business that he gives his secretary"?

Joe Fineman joe (Email Removed)

[nq:2]The second film version, with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, ... to mary Father" the "had" was changed to "deigned". Yech![/nq]
The line was, "His business is the business with his pretty secretary," and if you're not a total imbecile, I think even that line conveys the message.

[nq:2]The second film version, with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, ... to mary Father" the "had" was changed to "deigned". Yech![/nq]
[nq:1]How did they handle "His business is the business that he gives his secretary"? IIRC they left that in.[/nq]
Must get it from my video library and watch it again.

Even though I have mixed feelings about it: I regret the loss of the original,

[nq:1]The line was, "His business is the business with his pretty secretary," and if you're not a total imbecile, I think even that line conveys the message.[/nq]
Thanks. Now I don't have to get out the DVD.
WWOTS, I remember vividly "Gone with the Wind". I was about nine, and went with my mother.
When it got to the scene where Rhett says "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a ****" there w

[nq:1]That marked the decline of the Hay Office, although the Code officially prevailed until 1968.[/nq]
I think that Jane Russell was sitting on a bale of hay in her special bra, but the office was the Hays Office. Except it wasn't. It was called the Hays Office because Will Hays headed it, but it was the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America office or the MPPDA.
Old Will w

[nq:2]That marked the decline of the Hay Office, although the Code officially prevailed until 1968.[/nq]
Sorry about the missing S.
[nq:1]I think that Jane Russell was sitting on a bale of hay in her special bra, but the office was ... because Will Hays headed it, but it was the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America office or the MPPDA.[/nq]
Indeed it was, but popular pa

Izzy Baharuddin:
[nq:1]WWOTS, I remember vividly "Gone with the Wind". ... When it got to the scene where Rhett says "Frankly, my ... was a collective intake of breath at the shock of hearing profanity on the Big Screen for the first time.[/nq]
It may have been the first time for those audiences, but "****" was spoken in movies as easily as 1929. Among movies still seen today, earlier ones