Written five years earlier by Frank Loesser, Baby, It’s Cold Outside made it’s film debut in 1949 in Neptune’s Daughter. The Oscars that year would award the musical number with Best Original Song.
In the film, the song is performed twice. The first time, sung by Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams, is pretty much what you would expect. But it’s the second version, between Betty Garrett and Red Skelton, that’s particularly interesting because the roles are reversed.
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