Many will likely relate this to the 1968 Stephenwolf hard rock song, “Born to Be Wild.” However, there have been three musical releases titled Born to Be Bad, including the 1988 George Thorogood studio album. But this saying has been around much longer. It was the title of a 1950 movie starring Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan, and the previous 1934 United Artists film which starred Loretta Young and Cary Grant. But the phrase is even considerably older than this story.