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You may be surprised to know that Dragnet was the first television show to be adapted into a full-length feature film in 1954. While television has been producing some of Hollywood's biggest movie stars for decades, most successful TV series remain in their intended small-screen format. More commonly celebrated movies have become television shows and prequel or sequel series, which include Cobra Kai, Fargo, and the recent Dune movies with Dune: Prophecy.

Successful television shows have certainly drawn their fair share of feature films as well after Dragnet became the first to ever do it. Some famous examples include Miami Vice (2006), 21 Jump Street (2012), and more than a dozen Star Trek movies. Recent examples include Breaking Bad, which spawned the movie sequel El Camino, the upcoming Community movie, and the recent Ryan Gosling action comedy The Fall Guy. Many of these shows were considered outstanding, which inspired their feature film potential.

Jackie Loughery, the first Miss USA who segued from the pageant world to a career in film and television in the 1950s and ’60s, died Friday in Los Angeles. She was 93.

Her death was announced on social media pages of the Miss USA organization.

“It is with great sorrow that we share the news of Jackie Loughery’s passing, a pioneer who made history as the First Ever Miss USA in 1952,” the organization wrote. “Jackie Loughery will always be remembered as a trailblazer in the world of beauty pageants. Her grace, poise, and intelligence captivated audiences and paved the way for future generations of women to shine on the stage.”

Following her news-making pageant win in 1952, Loughery had small or uncredited roles in several films and series before appearing as a beautiful alien in 1953’s Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. Also that year, she had credited roles in Take...

Jackie Loughery, who parlayed a victory in the first Miss USA pageant into an acting career that included a prominent role opposite future husband Jack Webb in the 1957 military drama The D.I., has died. She was 93.

Loughery died Friday in Los Angeles, Webb biographer Dan Moyer told The Hollywood Reporter. “She was like a mother to me and called me her kid,” he said.

The Brooklyn native also served as Johnny Carson’s assistant on a game show and appeared in the Western comedy Pardners (1956), starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis; the melodrama Eighteen and Anxious (1957), starring William Campbell; and the political drama A Public Affair (1962), starring Edward Binns.

And for television, Loughery portrayed the niece of the title character (Edgar Buchanan) on the 1955-56 syndicated Western series Judge Roy Bean.

Loughery played a cautious shop owner named Annie who is romanced by a tough U.S. Marine drill sergeant...