Excerpt from
Pp 104-105 "Four Letter Words"
Q: I was having lunch today and the subject of profanity in films came up. I asked the following trivia question, "When was the first time the F-word was spoken in a major motion picture?" By a man? By a Woman? None of us knew. Do you?
Elizabeth Barnes of the Motion Picture Association of America told me it has no record of the first time the F-word was used. However, when I posted your query in the CompuServe ShowBiz Forum James Curran wrote "I don't know about the first use, but The Front and All the Presidents Men tied for being the first PG-rated use of the word." And Odell Henderson of Jersey City, N.J. added "I was reading my Guinness film book and it told me that the F-wording-est movie of all time was Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas, in which something like 275 variations of youknowwhat were uttered. That works out to one every twenty-eight seconds. The censored TV print's soundtrack must sound like the Emergency Broadcast System signal"