Hattie McDaniel of “Gone With the Wind,” the first African-American to win an Oscar, battled discrimination even at the Academy Awards ceremony
A dance to die for: The mysterious phenomenon of Medieval Europe that drove people to dance until collapse
Industrial Wonders: The long, financially draining struggle to build the SS Great Eastern, largest ship put into water in 19th century
The inspiration for Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne” was a beautiful woman he met on a Greek island
After an African prince spent 40 years as a slave in U.S., he was freed but died shortly before reaching his homeland
Before Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis came Sister Rosetta Tharpe, considered the godmother of rock & roll
Details of Elvis Presley’s divorce from Priscilla, full signatures included, emerge in 12-page document going up for auction
Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of
Bart the Bear, who appeared in several Oscar-winning films, was “the John Wayne of bears”
The extravagant epic “Cleopatra” was the first movie to generate more heat from what happened behind the scenes than onscreen
