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April 16, 2024

Well, we’ve finally done it. We’ve compiled a film and TV list that might even stump the buffiest of film buffs. If you already know about the first ever instance of full-frontal nudity in a movie, you’re excused from today’s lesson. But the rest of you so-called film nerds better pay close attention, because we’ve got lore galore.

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DARRY NETSON EST ERT - DA CHRISTI The first actor who played James Bond was BARRY NELSON. Many people think Sean Connery was the first to portray the 007 character. Not so. Nelson did it first in a 1954 TV adaptation for the show, Climax! The Bond story was taken from the first book, Casino Royale, but saw an American version of Bond in Nelson working for the Combined Intelligence Agency. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Riz Ahmed

RIZ AHMED was the first Muslim actor to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. The 2021 nomination was for his lead role in the movie Sound of Metal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Captain Marvel

Shazam (previously known as Captain Marvel) actually made his first on-screen appearance in 1941. Adventures of Captain Marvel was a 12-part black and white movie serial and is considered by some to be the first comic book superhero film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MARLON BRANDO was the first actor to get paid $1 million for his work. It might not seem a lot today (ugh), but in 1962 it sure was, and it set the precedent for actor salaries to come. Brando paved that way by becoming the highest paid actor for his work in Mutiny on the Bounty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GILDA RADNER was the very first hire for Saturday Night Live. The actress was the first to be cast in SNL in 1975. She stayed for five years. GRACKED COM — Source

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The highest paid role to date goes to WILL SMITH... for Men in Black 3. Smith received $100 million for the movie (the amount doesn't include additional residuals). CRACKED GOM — Source

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Diahann Carroll

DIAHANN CARROLL was the first Black actress to be cast in a role other than a servant in 1968. She was also the first Black actress to get her own TV show. GRACKED COM — Source

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Riyyan star Malkar MANDRAKE 1898 FALLS infuss in FIRR DEPARTMENT An The 2002 Adam Sandler movie Mr. Deeds was a remake of a 1936 film called Mr. Deeds Goes to Town which itself was based on a 1935 short story called Opera Hat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Star Is Born

Lady Gaga's and Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born is the fourth rendition of the story. The first one was filmed way back in 1937. CRACKED COM — Source

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Don't Let These Facts Out Of Your Sight!

DID YOU THINK ADAM WEST WAS THE FIRST LIVE-ACTION BATMAN? BA 1943 SERIAL WILSON, VERSION OF IN BATMAN. LEWIS THE (PLEASE IGNORE THE EARS) GRAGKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM 1939's The Wizard of Oz wasn't the first big-deal Hollywood version of that story. The first one came out in 1925, and had a weird plot where all the male characters (including the Scarecrow and Tin Man) wanted to marry Dorothy. — Source

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Scarface

We think of Al Pacino as Scarface, but he was not the first one. Brian De Palma's movie was a remake, dedicated to Ben Hecht, one of the writers of the original from 1932. CRACKED COM — Source

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The first full frontal nudity. 1916 CRACKED.COM Annette Kellermann was an Australian swimmer who broke barriers by wearing a scandalous one-piece bathing suit (instead of pantaloons). She later had a robust, nautical-themed film career, including her nude turn in A Daughter of the Gods. — Source

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The first movie studio. 1893 CRACKED.COM Thomas Edison's New Jersey studio, The Black Maria, was built for about $600 to produce short films for the Kinetoscope. — Source

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The first copyrighted motion picture. 1894 CRACKED.COM W.K. Dickson copyrighted Fred Ott's Sneeze, a 5-second film of Thomas Edison's assistant snorting some sketchy 1800's stimulant and then, spoiler alert, sneezing. — Source

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The first motion picture. 1885 GRAGKED.COM Louis Le Prince, aka The Zaddy of Cinematography, was the first to film a moving sequence on a film-like strip with a single lense camera. — Source

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The first karate fight. 1962 CRACKED.COM Frank Sinatra has the honor of inciting the first-ever karate fight in American cinema in The Manchurian Candidate. It looks exactly like a man who is horny for a living pretending to get beat up. — Source

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The first interracial kiss. 1957 CRACKED.COME Although it was highly controversial, Island in the Sun, a film about interracial romance, was also a box office success. — Source

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The first PG-13 rating. 1984 CRACKED.COM Even though it clocked in at 134 acts of violence per hour (Guinness counted), Red Dawn was the first film to officially find itself between PG and R. — Source

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The first cell phone. 1987 CRACKED.COM It's roughly the size and shape of a decent vacuum, but that's in fact Murtaugh barking into film's first cell phone in Lethal Weapon. — Source

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The first CGI. 1973 CRACKED.COM We get to see through the eyes of an evil robot in a scene in Westworld, and it's... boring. The motif was inspired by the first images of the surface of Mars. — Source

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The first $100 million movie. 1975 CRACKED.COM Jaws was one of the first films to be released nationwide, all at once, instead of slowly rolled out across the country. That helped it crush the barrier and score $260 million on its first run. — Source

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The first morning news 1952 CRACKED.COM NBC's Today premiered with Dave Garroway and J. Fred Muggs. — Source

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The first laugh track 1950 CRACKED.COM The Hank McCune Show, a TV show about a guy running a variety show, was kind of like an early 30 Rock, except it was cancelled after 3 weeks. — Source

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The first sci-fi series 1949 CARTAIN VIDEO CRACKED.COM Captain Video and His Video Rangers was a kids' show with a $25 prop budget per episode. — Source

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The first televised World Series 1947 CRACKED.COM The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers - featuring a rookie Jackie Robinson. — Source

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The first commercial license... S 1941 CBS NETWORK NBC PRESENTATION IN RCA COLOR CRACKED.COM CBS and NBC were issued licenses at the same time, so neither could claim to be first. — Source

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The first televised incumbent 1939 ST CRACKED.COM FDR's opening address to the World's Fair made him the first incumbent President to appear on the tube. — Source

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Live News

The first live news story 1938 CRACKED.COM NBC New York interrupted its scheduled programming to report on a fire on Ward's Island, home to both an Inebriate Asylum and an Idiot Asylum. — Source

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The first televised face 1925 CRACKED.COM Scottish inventor John Logie Baird televised his ventriloquist dummy, Stooky Bill, because the system couldn't detect the contrast of a human face. — Source

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