1920s

American women nationwide gained the right to vote in 1920. See photos of what that looked like.

Star Trek’s chief engineer, Montgomery Scott, may be the most famously Scottish person in all of pop culture. But here’s something fascinating: The actor who played Scotty, James Doohan, wasn’t …

In her glory days, she had all of New York City — and much of the nation — wrapped around her little finger.

Charlie Chaplin wore many hats in his life: actor, director, comedian, writer, producer, mogul and pariah. But the most beloved of his hats was a simple bowler that transformed Chaplin …

For more than six decades until her death in 1984, Anna Anderson maintained that she was the lost Grand Duchess Anastasia…

The success of “King Kong” made its leading ape and leading lady household names…

“It” was the only way to describe Clara Bow’s unmatchable magnetism.

Figure skating might not be the arena-filling phenomenon it has remained for decades were it not for a 5-foot-3-inch Norwegian….

Anna May Wong was a movie actress at a time when the U.S. wasn’t quite ready for Chinese-American leading ladies.

You might think the man who ruled a criminal empire would have the most ostentatious grave of all.