Busby Berkeley created Hollywood's greatest spectacles using hundreds of anonymous women. He also killed two people in a drunk driving crash and was acquitted three times. The real story.

In 1902, Émile Bayard launched Le Nu esthétique, the world's first nude photography magazine. Dedicated to Bouguereau and prefaced by Gérôme, it lasted five years before moral crusaders shut it down.

Jean Harlow was Hollywood's first platinum blonde bombshell. Behind the glamour was a domineering mother, three troubled marriages, a husband's suspicious death, and a body quietly failing at 26.