The Port of Missing Girls is a 1928 silent film directed by Irving Cummings.

[1][2][3] In the July 31, 1928 issue of the New York Daily News, the newspaper's film critic Irene Thirer began grading movies on a scale of zero to three stars.

And no stars at all 'means the picture's right bad,'" wrote Thirer.

The Port of Missing Girls received one star; Carl Bialik speculates that this may have been the first time a film critic used a star-rating system to grade movies.

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