1st Interracial Kiss?
I heard somewhere that this movie features the first interracial kiss in the history of movies. Does anyone know if that is true?
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They didn't kiss in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" ??? That was 4 years earlier.
sharebut according to Heston he most surely didn't have a problem with it, because supposedly he'd always thought Rosalind was a good actress anyhow. Watched it everytime it was presented on cable, and would continue to do so to this day.
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As far as kissing between black and white co-stars, I believe the first was from A Patch of Blue with Sidney Poitier and Elizabeth Hartman (an amazing film, BTW).
"Watch me run a 50-yard dash with my legs cut off!"
Nah. Planet of the Apes, 1968: Heston and Dr Zira. Now, if that aint interracial, nothing is.
Apart from that, I'm pretty sure Buckwheat from the "Our Gang"-series (late 1930ies) snuck a kiss from Darla (possible in the St. Valentine one), thus taking the record for the first (non-blackface) "interracial" kiss in a(n American) film.
I really don't see what's the big deal tho.
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That would be interspecific, not interracial.
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The Star Trek kiss was the first.
What about Island in the sun?
"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"
But Star Trek was a tv. show and the OP said film. And it comes after the first interracial kiss on film. That honor goes to Island In The Sun (1957).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050549/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I do not remember them kissing in Island In The Sun.
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Who cares about kissing? What was the first interracial sex in a movie? It may have been "100 Rifles" in 1969 between Jim Brown and Raquel Welch. I don't know if they kissed onscreen or the sexual relationship was implied.
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what a completely US discussion, where there was racism in Hollywood far into the 60's. Or how do you explain that there is no black cowboy in any movie (except for the funny speaking cooks), even though historically after 1865 a full third of all cowboys was black (as the plantation owners could not afford to pay wages to the ex-slaves and simply threw them out). And look how many mixed race couples are there today, or shown on the screen?
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