If you ever catch some vintage soap opera footage, you may see a few familiar faces. Here are some of today's hottest stars who got their start on daytime dramas.

It was always agreed that a galloping horse kept at least one hoof on the ground.

There are certain phrases that are thrown around too often in today’s world so that they lose their original impact.  When somebody is referred to as the “greatest of all time” or the “most influential,” we usually take it with a grain of salt.

If there’s one thing movies do better than any other art form, it’s weirdness. The combination of sight, sound, and music make for a perfect cocktail to take the audience away on a wild and spaced-out ride; and in recent years filmmakers have even started using film as a way to explore heady philosophical ideas like the nature of identity, time, and consciousness.

He is handsome, tall, drives a fast car, has an unlimited expense account, and always gets the girl. That’s just the actor. The character he portrays also has a license to kill.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was established in May 1927 as a non-profit corporation to promote the art of movie making. In the first year, the Academy had 36 members, with Douglas Fairbanks Sr as president. The first Academy Awards, now better known as the Oscars, were presented at a private dinner in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, with less than 250 persons attending.

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926 in Soho, London. Ten years later there were only 100 TV sets in the world

Joseph Necephore Niepce developed the world’s first photographic image in 1827..