The Great Dictator was Chaplin's first true talking picture.
Bette Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Bette Davis was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
Pillow Talk is the first of three movies in which Day, Hudson and Randall starred together, the other two being Lover Come Back and Send Me No Flowers.
In 1965, Olivia de Havilland became the first female president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine are the first sisters to win Oscars and the first ones to be Oscar-nominated in the same year.
Captain Blood is the first of eight films co-starring Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.
Robin Hood was produced at an estimated cost of $2 million, and was one of the first Warner Bros. films to be shot in the three-strip Technicolor process.
The Adventures of Robin Hood was Errol Flynn's first film in Technicolor.
Errol Flynn's first book, Beam Ends, an autobiographical account of his sailing trips around Australia, was published in 1937.
It Happened One Night was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and later by The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Greta Garbo is among the actors and actresses who successfully made the transition to talkies; publicized with the slogan "Garbo Talks!" her voice was first heard on screen in Anna Christie (1930), a film adaptation of the 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill.
In 1910, Stan Laurel joined Fred Karno's troupe of actors, which also included a young Charlie Chaplin. For some time, Stan acted as Chaplin's understudy. The Karno troupe toured America, and brought both Chaplin and Laurel to the United States for the first time.
Vivian Hartley (Vivian Leigh) made her first stage appearance at the age of three, reciting "Little Bo Peep" for her mother's amateur theatre group. Gertrude Hartley tried to instill in her daughter an appreciation of literature and introduced her to the works of Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, and Rudyard Kipling, as well as stories of Greek mythology and Indian folklore.
Vivien Leigh was the first ever actress to win two Best Actress Academy Awards, the first for a color film (Gone with the Wind) and the second for a black-and-white film (A Streetcar Named Desire).
Maureen O'Hara was elected CEO and President of Antilles Airboats with the added distinction of being the first woman president of a scheduled airline in the U.S. Later she sold the airline with the permission of the shareholders.
In 1963, Sidney Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field.
Poitier was the first black actor to place autograph, hand, and footprints in the cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre (June 23, 1967).
Jimmy Stewart was the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II.
Elizabeth Taylor's first husband was Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton, Jr., an American socialite, hotel heir, businessman, and TWA director. He was one of the sons of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels).
In 1929, Weissmuller made his first motion picture appearance as an Adonis, wearing only a fig leaf, in the movie Glorifying the American Girl.
The first Tarzan was Elmo Lincoln, however Johnny Weissmuller was the first Tarzan to be associated with the now famous Tarzan yell.