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Child singer Jimmy Boyd was 12 years and 11 months old when he sang the Christmas favorite, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." The song hit the top of the pop charts.
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A male ballet dancer is referred to as a danseur noble.
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Over the decades, Finland has banned many U.S. films, including Angels with Dirty Faces (193
, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dirty Harry (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), Friday the 13th (1980), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), The Thin Man (1934), Walking Tall (1973), and The Wild One (1954). The latter, with Marlon Brando's renowned performance as a motorcycle-riding packleader terrorizing a small town, was outlawed in Finland for twelve years, until 1966. -
Several of the Bond girls — namely Ursula Andress, Shirley Eaton, Eunice Gayson, and Claudine Auger — were unable to match an alluring voice to their sexy physical attributes. For each of them, their lines were dubbed by aspirant actress Nikki van der Zyl, who later left the film industry to practice as a barrister. On Doctor No, van der Zyl did every female voice except Miss Moneypenny and a Chinese girl, and she also dubbed Raquel Welch's grunting in One Million Years B.C.
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In 1912, French actress Sarah Bernhardt became the first great actress of the stage to appear in the new medium of films.
Silent film star Francis X. Bushman was the first film actor to be called "King of the Movies." That label would later be affixed to Clark Gable, where it has since remained.
Theda Bara was American cinema's first "vamp," and its first female sex symbol. Born Theodosia Goodman, the exotic actress was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Elmo Lincoln was filmdom's first Tarzan. Formerly an Arkansas policeman, bit actor Elmo Linkenhelt's shirt was partially torn off while filming a fight scene, revealing his muscular chest. Reportedly, director D.W. Griffith called him over and told him, "That's quite a chest you have there." Griffith modified his screen name to Elmo Lincoln and featured him in several of his films, including The Birth of a Nation. In 1918, Lincoln was given the title role in Tarzan of the Apes a few days after film production began. World War I had just begun, and the man first contracted to play the apeman -- Winslow Wilson, a husky actor and ukelele player -- unexpectedly quit and enlisted. Tarzan of the Apes was a box office hit, one of the first movies to bring in more than $1 million dollars.
The first film star to commit suicide during the height of their career was the lovely and popular actress Olive Thomas. The former Ziegfeld showgirl was the main star at Selznick Studios by age 20, and she was happily married to Jack Pickford, the successful actor-brother of Mary Pickford. In 1920, Thomas was found dead from an overdose of mercuric chloride in Paris. Her tragic death made headlines around the world. An investigation revealed her lurid private life, including drug addiction, which was far removed from the ingenue roles she believably portrayed on the screen.
Sterling Holloway was the first Hollywood actor drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II. Actor James Garner was the first man from the state of Oklahoma drafted into the Korean War.
The first kiss in a Japanese film was finally allowed in Twenty-Year-Old Youth in 1946.
James Dean was the first actor to be nominated for an Oscar posthumously in 1956. Dean was killed in an auto accident six months earlier, only a few days after he completed filming on Giant, the film for which he received his nomination. Dean did not win; Yul Brynner was the winner of the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the musical The King and I.
The 1987 Empire of the Sun was the first major Hollywood movie to be made in the People's Republic of China. This required long face-to-face negotiations that took about a year to complete. -
Jenna Elfman, co-star of the TV hit "Dharma and Greg," was born Jennifer Mary Butala. In 1995, she married actor Bodhi Elfman, nephew of film score composer Danny Eflman ("The Simpsons," "Men in Black," "Good Will Hunting"), and changed her last name.
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The first television picture was broadcast in 1926 from Arlington, Virginia to Washington, D.C. The technological achievement was of a picture of a weather map.
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, father of Candice Bergen, was the first president of the Television Academy.
In 1950, the sitcom laugh track was introduced in the U.S. on "The Hank McCune Show"; that TV program was canceled during midseason.
The first televised tour of the White House, led by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and hosted by Charles Collingwood, was broadcast simultaneously by CBS and NBC in 1962. The tour was watched by an estimated 46,500,000 viewers, offering them their first opportunity to see many of the rooms of the President's home.
The Avengers, which aired in the United States on ABC from 1966 to 1969, was the first British show ever to air in a U.S. network's prime time fall schedule. The tongue-in-cheek spy show starred Patrick Macnee as John Steed, the urbane British undercover agent.
As a college sophomore, Oprah Winfrey was the first African-American news co-anchor on a local U.S. TV station.
In 1990, Upjohn ran the first TV commercial in the U.S. during which an actor said he had diarrhea. -
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