Vad var det första fallet med en kändis som spelade en fiktionaliserad version av sig själv?

Basebollspelare 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1942

Guiden till United States Popular Culture (2001) av Ray Broadus Browne och Pat Browne säger:

As Linda K. Fuller has noted, "The real story of the success of baseball films is not the batting box, but at the box office. From the beginning, filmmakers were quick to realize the added box-office potential of the day's baseball stars, so it wasn't long before some of the began appearing, usually as themselves, in dramatized films as well as in newsreels." Ever since Hal Chase played himself in a 1911 film [Hal Chase's Home Run], followed the next year by Chief Bender, Jack Coombs, and Rube Olding in The Baseball Bug, others joined the film fun: Christy Mathewson in Love and Baseball (1914), Mike Donlin and John McGraw in Right Off the Bat (1915), Ty Cobb in Somewhere in Georgia (1916), Frank Baker in Home Run Baker's Double (1914), Jack Johnson in As the World Rolls On (1921), and Babe Ruth in Babe Comes Home (1927), as well as a number of shorts produced by Universal Pictures, like Fancy Curves, Just Pals, and Slide, Babe, Slide. Also, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Ralph Houk, White Ford, and other actual players have made film appearances.

100 saker Yankees fans ska veta & Gör innan de dör (2012) av David Fischer säger:

Ruth also played himself in 1920 in the film Heading Home, and he played a fictionalized version of himself seven years later in the movie The Babe Comes Home, as the character Babe Dugan. In retirement, Ruth played himself in the 1942 movie The Pride of the Yankees, based on Lou Gehrig's life.

Men var dessa delar mer än bara en cameo?

Minst Hal Chases roll i Hal Chase's Home Run (1911) var mer än en cameo :

... in which the leading role is played by the famous First Baseman and Manager of the New York American League Team...

På samma sätt spelade Frank "Home Run" Baker huvudrollen i Home Run Baker's Double (1914). Här är en konto av" photoplay ", och det låter verkligen som en fiktiv berättelse om en basebollspelare, hans doppelganger och några skurkar.

Kärlek och baseball (1914), enligt New York Tider :

Legendary baseball player Christy Mathewson played "himself" in the Bison two-reeler Love and Baseball.

Här är ett 1914-pappers berättelse om historien .

Rubrik Hem (1920) ( titta online ) stjärnor Babe Ruth som en fiktiv version av sig själv . Wikipedia :

It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth... Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized.

Och från IMDb :

The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
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If this is the "true story" of Babe Ruth, then I am a Llama!

Cowboy gangsters 1912, 1914, 1918

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During its first years of statehood, Oklahoma itself temporarily became a center for filming westerns; characteristically, given the wild-and-woolly reputation of the first whites who had come to Indian Territory, the peculiar western subgenre that developer there was the cowboy-gang narrative produced and performed by the ex-gangsters themselves: reformed train robber Al Jennings played himself in The Bank Robbery (1914), and Emmett Dalton (last survivor of the notorious Dalton gang) played himself in The Last Stand of the Dalton Boys (1912) and Beyond the Law (1918).

Den tidigaste TV-skivan skulle förmodligen vara Jack Benny-programmet (från wiki: TV-versionen av Jack Benny-programmet sprang från 28 oktober 1950) Jack Benny spelade sig själv, men det var en karikatyr som James Van Der Beek. Det kan finnas tidigare exempel men från filmer.

På tv, kan ett par tidiga exempel (men inte nödvändigtvis tidigast) vara The George Burns och Gracie Allen Show eller Ozzie och Harriets äventyr , även om Det är diskutabelt om de verkligen är fiktiva versioner av sig själv eller bara tecken med samma namn. Sedan finns det The Monkees 1962, vilket verkligen är dem som spelar sig själva.

När det gäller film går andra att kunna klara sig bättre, men du kanske kan överväga Laurel och Hardy så ofta spelar sig själva (även om det beror på filmen självklart).