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Friday, September 6th, 2024 2:30 AM

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Melania Trump's Parents

Why do Melania Trump's parents have imdb pages when they've never been credited in anything that appears on imdb. Seems Odd. 

Viktor Knavs https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11851059

Amalija Knavs  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11851060

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Viktor Knavs and Amalija Knavs each has two uncredited acting credits.

When a person has only uncredited credits, they do not appear on the public IMDb page.

If and when the Knavses receive a credited credit, then all the credits they have—credited and uncredited—will appear on their public pages.

I'm told that IMDb does it this way to prevent struggling actors from filling their pages with uncredited work just to fill their pages, but I don't see the logic to it. I'm not saying IMDb doesn't have a good reason; I just don't understand it.

All an actor has to do to make his credits appear on the page is get a YouTube channel, post a few vlogs, credit himself, add the vlog to IMDb and now he has credited work. Or maybe I'm missing something?

Anyway, there's a possibility IMDb will make exceptions for certain persons. Maybe for public figures like the Knavses, they'll make an exception to their rule and allow the credits to appear.

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P.S. There are a lot of movie actors from the early to mid-20th century who did a lot of work, but were never credited on screen. Old movies never had long credit rolls like today.

IMDb's old rule, created in the early 2000s, was that someone with only uncredited work could not have a page at all. All the old-time actors who already had pages (which were added in the 1990s), were grandfathered in.

I hope their pages are not blank now.