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We’ve all heard that the movie biz has some pretty high stakes, but did those stakes really have to reach life-or-death heights? From the safety of our desk, we’re thinking no. Even lower stakes like amputations, permanent brain damage and child-drugging are a tad high for our taste. Filmmakers may have an at-all-cost motto, but we’re perfectly okay with typing these words and getting home to our cats.

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ACTRESSES WERE TORTURED INTO BEING SKINNY. Classic Hollywood SUCKED Just like today, young female stars were expected to be thin. Sometimes they'd be ordered to - even forced to. 14-year-old Judy Garland was kept on a very restricted diet, given diet pills, and reportedly made to smoke an awful lot to suppress her appetite. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CHILD ABUSE WAS COMMON. Classic Hollymood SUCKED F в С Shirley Temple is the rare child star who didn't grow up into a messed-up adult, but that wasn't because of Hollywood's lack of trying. She was only three when she was in sexually suggestive short movies - and when she misbehaved on set, she was forced to sit on a block of ice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CHILDREN WERE DRUGGED TO PERFORM IN MOVIES. Classic Hollymood SUCKED Teens Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland were made to work 18 hours a day, six days a week. They were given amphetamines to keep up with that frantic pace (and then sleeping pills to calm them down at night). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stuntwoman Olivia Jackson lost an arm in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. A stunt she was doing was changed at the last minute -- she was supposed to do a fight scene, but ended up doing a motorcycle stunt. That led to an accident, which resulted in nerve damage that meant they had to amputate her arm. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A stuntman got hurt so badly on Mission Impossible: I, his career was over. TOM CRUISE M:i-2 SUMMER 2000 It was his first big Hollywood movie, and he got knocked over by a motorcycle flying through the air, resulting in severe injuries that left him unable to work as a stuntman. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The 1981 movie Roar left 70 people injured. Filming, which lasted 11 years, involved 100 untamed lions, leading to severe injuries by the stars - - for example, Melanie Griffith was mauled so badly that she needed over 100 stitches plus surgery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double broke his neck on the last Harry Potter movie. During rehearsals for a flying scene, David Holmes did a jerk back stunt, which broke his neck and left him paralyzed from the chest down. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Adding injury to insult, Bob Hoskins broke his hand on the Super Mario Bros. movie. The set was a disaster and the actors, including Hoskins, were drinking all the time - which led to an accident involving a truck that left Hoskins with a broken hand. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Clockwork Orange left Malcolm McDowell unable to see for a while. The apparatus he wears in the Ludovico Technique scene was really painful, and he complained that he scratched his left eye's cornea, was in pain and couldn't see. Stanley Kubrick told him, Let's go on with the scene. I'll favor your other eye. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A stuntman suffered critical brain damage while making The Hangover Part II. HANGOVER PART II When he leaned out of a taxi's window, Australian stuntman Scott McLean suddenly got hit by another vehicle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rocky IV put Sly Stallone in the ICU. One day on set, he told Dolph Lundgren to forget the fight choreography, Just go out there and try to clock me. For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all. The result was that Stallone was in the hospital for nine days. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A sinkhole killed several horses. THE HOBBIT CRACKED.COM The come-from-behind winner for biggest bummer about The Hobbit is that 27 animals died during filming. Several of them fell to their death when a sinkhole opened up under their pens. — Source

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Margaret Hamilton fully caught fire. THE WIZARD OF OZ GRACKED.COM Whenever we see the Wicked Witch disappear, she drops into a trap door as pyrotechnics ignite. At least once, the trap door went haywire, trapping her in the explosion, and igniting her very flammable petroleum-based makeup. — Source

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Isla Fisher almost drowned. NOW YOU SEE ME CRACKED.COM She had a quick-release mechanism in her hand, but the other, very real chains were still dragging her down. She signalled to the crew that she was under duress, but everyone just thought she was in the zone: They thought I was being Meryl Streep in the tank, actually I was drowning. — Source

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Bob Denver was almost mauled by a lion. GILLIGAN'S ISLAND CRACKED.COM When he sat down next to the big cat, as planned, the lion went off script and lunged at him. Denver yes-and-ed this improv by karate chopping, which further enraged it. That's when the lion's trainer stepped in --to ask the cast not to tell his boss what happened. — Source

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Halle Berry almost choked on fruit. DIE ANOTHER DAY CRACKED.COM During a sex scene, Pierce Brosnan made a quip so cheeky, she sucked in the fig she was munching. According to Berry, Brosnan gave her a naked Heimlich (although he claims he just slapped her on the back). — Source

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Jaimie Alexander slipped in the rain, broke her spine. THOR: THE DARK WORLD CRACKED.COM The Asgardian warrior was taken out by a set of stairs. She slipped and fell, chipped 11 vertebrae, and had to rehab for a month before returning to set. — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change The Crow A real gunshot Actor Brandon Lee was killed in 1993 while filming The Crow due to a prop gun accident. His mother sued the filmmakers and won, and the incident spurred the need for better safety measures when using prop guns on set. CRACKED — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change Heaven's Gate Mistreating a horse 1980's Heaven's Gate caused a lot of controversy when a lawsuit was filed for mistreating a horse. This led to Hollywood making a deal with the American Humane Association to increase oversight and ensure animals get treated properly. CRACKED — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change MIZONA RZARD ULS.ARMT Million Dollar Mystery A failed motorbike stunt After stuntman Dar Robinson died while filming Million Dollar Mystery in 1987, it became a requirement for ambulances to be on movie sets to make sure everyone was safe. CRACKED — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change Midnight Rider A fatal train accident The death of camera assistant Sarah Jones led to the creation of a non-profit that works to prevent similar tragedies. It provides a safety checklist to the industry, similar to other initiatives like the IATSE Safety App. CRACKED — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change Pleasantville A car crash In honor of cameraman Brent Hershman, who died in a car crash after a 19-hour shift, the Screen Actors Guild and other entertainment unions have come together to make sure no one works more than 12 hours in a day. This is now known as Brent's Rule. CRACKED — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change Rust Prop gun misfire After the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins due to Alec Baldwin firing a prop gun, the industry made changes to safety rules. This includes having an armorer on set when actors are given weapons, and giving the crew a list of terms used by armorers. CRACKED — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change Twilight Zone: The Movie A helicopter crash Three actors tragically died in a helicopter accident while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie decades ago, leading to the creation of the Motion Picture & Entertainment Safety Program. This program is still in place today to keep actors and crew safe. CRACKED — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change Deadpool 2 Stunts gone wrong After the deaths of stunt performers, the SAG-AFTRA union set up a commission to look into issues like long hours, having to drive far to work, and how to protect people from bad weather on movie and TV sets. The Walking Dead CRACKED — Source

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Hollywood tragedies that brought change Jesse James A horse plunging to its doom In 1939, the American Humane Association was asked to come to Hollywood after a blindfolded horse died falling down a 70-foot cliff for the movie Jesse James. They've since been credited with drastically reducing animal cruelty in movies. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED YOU CAN'T ABUSE DOGS AND CATS ANYMORE. There have been several unproven allegations that The Adventures of Milo and Otis killed roughly 20 kittens. The film itself does show animal abuse, with kittens pitted against snakes, a pug being thrashed around by a bear, and a cat plunging over 100 feet into the ocean. — Source

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CRACKED YOU CAN'T INJURE, MAIM, OR KILL EXTRAS ANYMORE. NOAH'S ARK In 1928, cameraman Hal Mohr quit when director Michael Curtiz rolled his eyes at his safety concerns. Three extras died, another lost a limb, and a dozen suffered serious injuries, but Curtiz somehow escaped any legal repercussions. — Source

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CRACKED YOU CAN'T HARASS AND HOSPITALIZE ACTORS (OR KILL BIRDS) ANYMORE. THE BIRDS Alfred Hitchcock pelted actress Tippi Hedren with live birds (injuring and killing them), and force-fed whisky to seagulls to get them to stay still. Hedren was hospitalized, and he ruined her career when she refused his sexual advances. — Source

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CRACKED YOU CAN'T USE DRUGS AND GET INTO KNIFE FIGHTS ANYMORE. EASY RIDER The drugs used on camera were real, and the cast and crew partook off-camera as well. Director Dennis Hopper reportedly threatened actor Rip Torn with a knife, but claims Torn pulled a knife first. — Source

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CRACKED YOU CAN'T KILL EXTRAS ANYMORE. FITZCARRALDO In Werner Herzog's 1982 film, several indigenous extras were injured or even killed. A Peruvian logger was bit by a venomous snake on set and had to cut off his own foot with a chainsaw to stop the poison from spreading. — Source

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CRACKED YOU CAN'T FILM ON AN ATOMIC BOMB TEST SITE THAT WOULD LATER KILL THE CAST AND CREW. THE CONQUEROR 91 out of the 220 cast and crew members got cancer later in life. 46 of those, including John Wayne, died from it. Radiologist Dr. Robert Pendleton said Blame for their exposure on set would hold up in a court of law. — Source

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CRACKED YOU CAN'T KILL 100 HORSES ANYMORE. BEN HUR The 1925 epic won 11 Oscars, but as many as 100 horses were killed on set. The 2nd unit director reportedly ordered horses be shot and killed if they limped without first seeking veterinary care. — Source

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