# Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955 "2003-08-09T01:17:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/1 "2003-08-09T01:17:55Z")
Who was the first American Bond girl? And what movie did she appear in? Who was the first president to screen an x-rated movie in the White House? And what was the movie? ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/2 "2003-08-09T02:13:13Z")
the movie HAD to be _Midnight Cowby_ … so the Pres woulda been Nixon? ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/3 "2003-08-09T02:14:21Z")
or _Cowboy_ even ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/4 "2003-08-09T02:15:54Z")
Right movie…wrong president. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/5 "2003-08-09T02:16:05Z")
I’ll play! #2: _Midnight Cowboy_ screened by Richard M. Nixon. ? #1: I don’t know ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/6 "2003-08-09T02:17:51Z")
Damn simulposts. LBJ then or Carter (for the 1980 rerelease) ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/7 "2003-08-09T02:19:08Z")
Carter! I found that to be surprising. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/8 "2003-08-09T02:19:29Z")
Hm. Was it Kim Basinger in Goldfinger? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/9 "2003-08-09T02:21:32Z")
Was it still rated X in the 1980 re-release? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/10 "2003-08-09T02:25:22Z")
**Maureen** …Honor Blackman was the Bond Girl in Goldfinger. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/11 "2003-08-09T02:33:25Z")
AAARGH!:smack: …that’s right, it was Never Say Never Again. But not Kim? ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/12 "2003-08-09T02:35:51Z")
AHA!!! Jill St. John, Diamonds Are Forever ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/13 "2003-08-09T02:45:56Z")
Well done **Maureen**! ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/14 "2003-08-09T03:14:03Z")
Thanks, I only had to take our video shelves halfway apart…(pant,pant…) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia/193955/15 "2003-08-09T03:23:13Z")
According to the IMDB, the rating for **Midnight Cowboy** was lowered to an R with no cuts made. By the time it was viewed, even though it was the exact same movie, it was rated R. > [@](#): > > The widespread belief that “Midnight Cowboy, The” (1969) is the only X-rated film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture is incorrect. At the time, Academy rules prohibited the entry of X-rated pictures into the competition, and critical reaction to “Cowboy” was so strong that the MPAA agreed to drop the rating to an “R,” without a single cut or other alteration, so that it would qualify for Oscar consideration. So it depends on whether it was screened before or after the MPAA change.