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1912:

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The Librarian, first film to feature a librarian

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1919:

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A Very Good Young Man, first film to feature a male librarian

Notable: The main character’s profession was changed from brass bed factory worker in the play to librarian in the film

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1921:

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The Lost Romance, first film to feature a librarian with glasses and a bun (the Spinster Librarian image begins!)

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1932:

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Forbidden, first sound film to feature a librarian

Notable: “Old lady foureyes!” In the film’s opening scene, two small boys shout this as public librarian Lulu Smith (Barbara Stanwyck) walks down the street.

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1932:

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No Man of Her Own, first film to feature a librarian in undergarments

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1933 & 1940:

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First films to feature a librarian saying, “Shush!”

• The Good Companions, 1933 (UK)
• The Philadelphia Story, 1940 (US)

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1943:

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The Seventh Victim, first horror film to feature a librarian

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1953:

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Pickup on South Street, first film to feature an African-American librarian

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1984:

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Cal, first (non-erotic) film to feature a nude librarian (Helen Mirren)

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Sources used:

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• Tevis, Ray, and Brenda Tevis. The Image of Librarians in Cinema 1917-1999. McFarland, 2005.