Ridley will play Bertha Benz, the wife of Motorwagen inventor Karl Benz, who embarked on the world's first road trip in 1888.

So what kind of movies were we all watching a quarter of a century ago? Looking back on the year 2000 in film, it turned out to be quite an eclectic selection. We had landmark historical epics, ...

Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...