Television can make a place feel inseparable from one series, but studios know a useful set is too valuable to waste. Houses, schools, diners and entire streets have been repainted, rearranged and sent back before cameras as someplace new. Sometimes viewers barely noticed.

Before Instagram feeds and celebrity TikToks, teenage crushes arrived at the newsstand. A new issue of 16 Magazine could mean glossy photos, breathless interviews, and a face destined to be carefully torn out and taped to a bedroom wall. In the 1980s, Hollywood produced an absurd number of those faces, sometimes packing several future heartthrobs into the very same movie. Looking back at who actually dominated those magazine covers reveals just how quickly teenage tastes could change.

Some of Hollywood's biggest stars got their most famous roles only after it was refused by another actor.

Mary Pickford, a beloved silent film star, was known for her sweetness and charm. Despite her fame, her life was filled with tragedy. After her career faded, she became a recluse—but now all her Hollywood secrets are out, and they tell a chilling story of the early days of film.

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.

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