The world’s first porn star

Feb  16

TIL “the world’s first porn star” was 16-year-old Candy Barr; she starred in a silent porn film called “Smart Alec” in 1951

At age 16, Barr appeared in one of the most famous and widely circulated of the early underground pornographic movies, Smart Alec (1951).

The X-rated silent short, which is no more than 20 minutes in length and was filmed in black-and-white, was one of the most famous and widely circulated of the early underground pornographic era.

It has been called “iconographic”,

The best known of all American stag films and the “apogee of the American stag tradition”.

Because of the widespread “underground” distribution and popularity of this short hardcore 8mm movie, which is no more than 15 minutes long, she has been called “the first porn star”