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Popularization from 1988 movie "Working Girl"
It seems that the term "elevator pitch" or 'elevator speech" got a huge boost from the scene in "Working Girl" where Melanie Griffiths' character gives one to a prospective client, in the elevator. See this Ngram https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22elevator+pitch%22%2C+%22elevator+speech%22&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1970&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%22%20elevator%20pitch%20%22%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2C%22%20elevator%20speech%20%22%3B%2Cc0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferreiro (talk • contribs) 12:54, 29 June 2018 (UTC)