40 Historical Firsts From the World of Television, Film and Beyond

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40 Historical Firsts From the World of Television, Film and Beyond

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Philip Seymour Hoffman At his start, Hoffman guest starred in an episode of Law & Order. His final role was as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. CRACKED.COM

Wolf Entertainment, Lionsgate

IMDb

Jimmy Stewart

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Jimmy Stewart The actor's first role in a feature length film was in 1935's The Murder Man (titles were simpler back then), and his final role was voicing sheriff dog Wylie Burp in 1996's An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. CRACKED.COM

MGM, Universal Pictures

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Bruce Lee

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Bruce Lee Lee was seemingly born into the film industry, with his first as an infant in 1941's Golden Gate Girl, and his final being his most lauded in 1973's Enter the Dragon. CRACKED.COM

Golden Gate, Warner Bros.

IMDb

Bart Sirpson 1987 NOW An Eddie World's oldest Haskell ripoff 10-year-old. King developed 10 of the edgy minutes before catchphrase, the a pitch meetin

Bugs was playing third fiddle for a long time

Bugs Bunny 1938 NOW Happy Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, a temporary studio icon who guest on Porky holds the Pig's wildly Guinness Record popular show, for Most

I knew there was something up with cat people

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first significant jump scare as we know it today happened in Cat People (1942). This specific moment is also
Source: /film

Kristen Stewart

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES KRISTEN STEWART in Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas Stewart's very first role was as a girl tossing a ring in a Flintstones movie nobody saw and nobody remembers. Now, in the scene itself you can only see her back, yet the role is pretty well-documented and there are even photos of her on set. CRACKED.COM

Source: Complex

I would simply choose not to enter that house

18 Horror Movies That Did It First- The first horror narrative was a short film called Le Manoir du Diable (The House of the Devil) from 1896 by Geor
Source: Mental Floss

And Will Sasso did that lemon thing on Vine. 'MadTV' alumni are really going places.

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - In 2018, Jordan Peele became the first black person to win the Original Screenplay award for Get Out.
Source: L.A. Times

How it started / how it's going

HE MAN 1982 NOW A toy in search After hiring of a plot In an comic book attempt to writers to flesh compete with out a plot, Star Wars toy He-Man has

Sexy aardvark

Arthur TM 1976 NOW Protagonist of Your average Arthur's Nose, a 3rd-grade children's book humanoid about aardvark, with an consulting exceptionally a

Sexy dog

BETTY BOOP 1930 NOW Originally a Her dog ears sexy dog, she turned into was developed earrings, and she the girlfriend became fully as to the wildly h

Some footage should stay lost

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first ever found footage film is considered to be Cannibal Holocaust, an Italian exploitation film from 1980.
Source: Syfy

Probably no weird racial undertones to see here

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first zombie movie was the 1932 White Zombie, featuring a woman being turned into a zombie by a “voodoo maste
Source: Syfy

This guy is going places

JIM CARREY ACE VENTURA was the first actor to have three films go straight to number one at the Box Office in the same year. In 1994, The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and Dumb and Dumber all made number one. GRACKED.COM

Uproxx

He's got resting bully face

ADAM SCOTT: BOY MEETS WORLD 1994 GRACKED.COM Channeling his future Step Brothers role as the jerk Dereck, Scott plays a transfer student and giant P.O.S. bully, Griff. What makes Scott such a believable douchebag?

Source: MTV

He's always been a top notch goober

CHARLIE DAY: MARY AND RHODA 2000 CRACKED.COM Charlie Day's one-line role as Mailroom Kid, minus the conspiracy wall, was to basically hit on Mary Tyler Moore, as he puts it.

Source: Vanity Fair

Nothing beats his turn on 'The Price Is Right'

AARON PAUL. BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 1999 CRACKED.COM Before he slung crystal in the ABQ, Aaron Paul was in Beverly Hills. His character, high schooler CHAD, played Romeo in the school play, SO actually Paul was playing the dude disguised as another dude.

Source: EW

At least he got better at acting since then, right?

BEN AFFLECK: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (MOVIE) 1992 CRACKED.COM As basketball player #10, Affleck read his one line SO badly that they had to dub over him. Being the worst actor in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie has got to be a blow to your confidence.

Source: Cinema Blend

She was also pressured into nude scenes by the director

HEDY KIESLER (later turned Hedy Lamarr) was the first actress to perform an onscreen orgasm. The controversial moment happened in the 1933 film, Ecstasy, which was non-pornographic but had everybody in an uproar at the time. CRACKED.COM

Time

One of the worst Grovers in pop culture

Grover Cleveland served tuo non-consecutive terms. He's the only U.S. President to hold that distinction. During his first campaign, detractors would

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