The buff WWII-era feminist icon Rosie the Riveter was actually a tiny telegraph operator who’d never been near a factory
Until 1972, women were prohibited from running the Boston Marathon and the first female to complete race had to hide in the bushes before starting
Walt Disney’s theme of motherless children driven by the sadness and guilt he felt over losing his mother to a gas leak in a house he bought for her
Secrecy electrified the affair of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, the first power couple in the golden age of cinema
Mental breakdowns, substance abuse, an obese Marlon Brando: Welcome to “Apocalypse Now,” the film that nearly killed both Francis Coppola and Martin Sheen
“The Wealthiest Woman in America” was so stingy she took her injured son to a free clinic and so paranoid that she slept holding a gun, a chain of bank-deposit keys around her waist
Death plus a yacht full of celebrities: A producer’s untimely demise led to a mystery involving William Randolph Hearst and Charlie Chaplin
Jesse James was a “cool and deadly customer” who masterminded daytime robberies that taunted law enforcement
Swedes swarmed a Lufthansa contest offering a fully funded brand-new life in Berlin, even changing their names to qualify
The inspiration for Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne” was a beautiful woman he met on a Greek island