Carole Lombard was rushing back to her husband Clark Gable when the flight she was on crashed—and the reason for her urgency is utterly devastating.

Neville Brand was one of America's most decorated soldiers in WWII, but his struggles continued for decades after he came home.

Ted Danson became a television legend as Sam Malone on Cheers, but his career was far from finished. From Becker to The Good Place, here’s how Danson kept reinventing himself for decades.

The 60s produced countless songs that sounded upbeat on AM radio, even when their lyrics were describing all kinds of dark subjects.

For decades, American movies had certainly acknowledged bad marriages, but the 1970s brought something different. Divorce, separation, custody battles, infidelity, and the emotional wreckage of broken homes moved from the margins into the center of mainstream films. By the end of the 1980s, filmmakers had gone from treating divorce as painful adult drama to turning it into the stuff of savage black comedy.

When Kelsey Grammer walked onto Cheers in 1984, Dr. Frasier Crane had one basic job: get between Sam and Diane. He wasn't being introduced as television's next great sitcom character, and nobody was planning decades of Frasier Crane stories. Grammer was supposed to stick around briefly, serve his purpose, and disappear. Instead, he turned a temporary romantic obstacle into one of the longest-running roles in American television history.