Why is Fred Astaire number 1 on IMDB?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000001/
and noticed that the URL has a number, specifically 1.
1: Fred Astaire
2: Lauren Bacall
3: Brigitte Bardot
etc.
Is there any reasoning behind the ordering of the stars (or at least the lower numbers) and why Fred Astaire is specifically number 1?
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It might have something to do with how the first batch of data was loaded onto the system, with a selection of the most famous stars being uploaded from a sorted file.
There are surely people ahead of Astaire in alphabetical order, but the first data load might have been quite small.
EDIT:
Yes, the series continues:
John Belushi
Ingmar Bergman
Humphrey Bogart
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M$http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pjlrrMvdtw
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That was my thinking, but what I mean is, why Fred Astaire? Obviously, he was a Hollywood great, but is there any other reason they picked him rather than anyone else? Did they feel he was the greatest actor ever? Or did they just start listing celebrities and adding them as they thought of them?
Now that I think about it more, unless there's an interview with the creators of IMDb or someone who knows them personally, I don't think I'll be able to get the answer I'm looking for. But, who knows? The community of MA is resourceful, so I may be proven wrong yet.
hmmm, maybe they started off by using an alphabetic list of classic actors/actresses
1: Fred Astaire
2: Lauren Bacall
3: Brigitte Bardot
4: John Belushi
5: Ingmar Bergman
6: Ingrid Bergman
7: Humphrey Bogart
8: Marlon Brando
9: Richard Burton
10: James Cagney
20: Henry Fonda
30: Audrey Hepburn
40: Stanley Kubrick
50: Groucho Marx
You get the idea. So I don't think there is really a reason other than his last name starts with an "A" and he was one of the first people they added.
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M$
Wow, good point. I didn't even notice that. That seems pretty reasonable.
See my edit, which seems to confirm the theory.