The Golden Era Files

In one year she played the conscience of The Godfather's world and invented a look that a whole generation copied.

She wrote the song, sang the song, starred in the film, and then watched it top the pop chart - all inside a decade.

Ten thousand dollars for Star Wars. Four years later he was the biggest box-office draw on the planet.

Two Best Actress Oscars in seven years - then she walked out of cinema entirely and invented an industry.

From a widely mocked musical sequel to three Oscar nominations in five years - the decade Michelle Pfeiffer became untouchable.

He defined James Bond, spent twenty years trying to escape him, and then won the Oscar anyway at fifty-seven.

She made Academy history in a single evening in 1989 - and she got there through a science fiction film nobody expected to be taken seriously.