For millions of viewers, Karen Grassle was the steady, reassuring Caroline Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie. Behind the scenes, however, Grassle was a classically trained actress navigating a television production where her costar Michael Landon was also a director, writer, executive producer, and ultimately her boss. As Grassle later explained, that arrangement meant their working relationship could never truly be equal.

Clark Gable was Hollywood royalty. He had the face, the swagger, the Oscar, and eventually one of the most famous movie roles ever put on film. But the part of his life that mattered most happened far away from a movie set. And one night in January 1942, everything changed.

On screen, Mackenzie Phillips was the rebellious daughter in a family comedy. Off screen, she was a teenage performer earning a reported $50,000 a week.

For many viewers, Doris Roberts will always be Marie Barone, the impossible-to-ignore mother on Everybody Loves Raymond.

An appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show could make or break a career—but it really seems like Sullivan preferred to break them.

We’re going deep into the 1970s record store. These are the albums that somehow ended up three bins over, underneath something by Foghat, where they sat waiting for one extremely curious teenager with five dollars to burn. So…have you actually heard any of them?