Kinsey Trivia

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Cole Porter wrote the song "Too Darn Hot" for the Broadway musical "Kiss Me Kate," which premiered in 1948, the same year as the publication of Alfred Kinsey's book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male". The song contains the lyrics "According to the Kinsey report / ev'ry average man you know / much prefers to play his favorite sport / when the temperature is low." The Ella Fitzgerald recording of this song is played on the soundtrack. When MGM produced its movie version, Kiss Me Kate (1953), the same year as the publication of Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female", the film's censors changed the lyrics to "According to the weather report...," a sign of how much more controversial Kinsey's work was after the second book than the first. (imdb.com)

Bill Condon and Laura Linney appeared at a benefit screening of the movie at Indiana University to help raise money for the Kinsey Institute. (imdb.com)

The 37-day shoot had to cover the scope of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's 15 years of research, during which he interviewed 18,000 people across the US. (imdb.com)

In the script, Peter Sarsgaard did not have to strip in the motel scene. (imdb.com)

This film features Brute Force (Stephen Friedland) uncredited in the background, and just like George Harrison in Life of Brian (1979) he is in there with champagne glass. (imdb.com)