Ginger Rogers

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July 16, 1911

April 25, 1995

Virginia Katherine McMath

Jack Pepper (1929–1931)

Lew Ayres (1934–1941)

Jack Briggs (1943–1949)

Jacques Bergerac (1953–1957)

William Marshall (1961–1969)

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Actress:

"Hotel" (1 episode, 1987)

"American Masters" (1 episode, 1987)

"Glitter" (1 episode, 1984)

"The Love Boat" (2 episodes, 1979)

Harlow (1965)

"Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" (1 episode, 1965)

Cinderella (1965) (TV)

"The Red Skelton Show" (3 episodes, 1963-1964)

The Confession (1964)

"Vacation Playhouse" (1 episode, 1963)

"The Steve Allen Plymouth Show" (1 episode, 1960)

"Zane Grey Theater" (1 episode, 1960)

"The DuPont Show with June Allyson" (1 episode, 1959)

"Musical Playhouse" (1 episode, 1959)

Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957)

Teenage Rebel (1956)

The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)

Tight Spot (1955)

Black Widow (1954)

"Producers' Showcase" (segment 'Red Peppers) (segment Still Life) (segment Shadow Play') (1 episode, 1954)

Twist of Fate (1954)

Forever Female (1954)

Monkey Business (1952)

Dreamboat (1952)

We're Not Married! (1952)

The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)

Storm Warning (1951)

Perfect Strangers (1950)

The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

It Had to Be You (1947)

Magnificent Doll (1946)

Heartbeat (1946)

Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Lady in the Dark (1944)

Tender Comrade (1943)

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

The Major and the Minor (1942)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

Roxie Hart (1942)

Tom Dick and Harry (1941)

Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940)

Lucky Partners (1940)

Primrose Path (1940)

5th Ave Girl (1939)

Bachelor Mother (1939)

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

Carefree (1938)

Having Wonderful Time (1938)

Vivacious Lady (1938)

Stage Door (1937)

Shall We Dance (1937)

Swing Time (1936)

Follow the Fleet (1936)

In Person (1935)

Top Hat (1935)

Star of Midnight (1935)

Roberta (1935)

Romance in Manhattan (1935)

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Change of Heart (1934)

Finishing School (1934)

Upperworld (1934)

Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Flying Down to Rio (1933)

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Chance at Heaven (1933)

Rafter Romance (1933)

A Shriek in the Night (1933)

Don't Bet on Love (1933)

Professional Sweetheart (1933)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

42nd Street (1933)

Broadway Bad (1933)

You Said a Mouthful (1932)

Hat Check Girl (1932)

The Thirteenth Guest (1932)

The Tenderfoot (1932)

Carnival Boat (1932)

Suicide Fleet (1931)

The Tip-Off (1931)

Honor Among Lovers (1931)

Follow the Leader (1930)

Office Blues (1930)

Queen High (1930)

The Sap from Syracuse (1930)

Young Man of Manhattan (1930)

Campus Sweethearts (1930)

A Night in a Dormitory (1930)

A Day of a Man of Affairs (1929)

As Herself:

That's Entertainment! III Behind the Screen (1994)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1992) (TV)

"Pebble Mill at One" (1 episode, 1991)

"Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story" (4 episodes, 1987)

"ABC News Nightline" (1 episode, 1987)

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987) (TV)

The American Film Institute Salute to Billy Wilder (1986) (TV)

Irving Berlin's America (1986)

Night of 100 Stars II (1985) (TV)

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)

The 37th Annual Tony Awards 1983 (TV)

The 36th Annual Tony Awards 1982 (TV)

"Live from Lincoln Center" (1 episode, 1982)

Night of 100 Stars (1982) (TV)

Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny (1982) (TV)

All-Star Salute to Mother's Day (1981) (TV)

"Horas doradas" (1 episode, 1980)

The 51st Annual Academy Awards 1979 (TV)

Good Morning America (1 episode, 1978)

"Saturday Night at the Mill" (1 episode, 1978)

The People's Command Performance (1978) (TV)

At Long Last Cole (1975) (TV)

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Lucille Ball (1975) (TV)

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Bob Hope (1974) (TV)

"ABC Late Night" (1 episode, 1974)

"The Dean Martin Comedy Hour" (2 episodes, 1971-1973)

The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1972 (TV)

"The David Frost Show" (1 episode, 1971)

"Here's Lucy" (1 episode, 1971)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (2 episodes, 1971)

"Gypsy" (1 episode, 1967)

The 39th Annual Academy Awards 1967 (TV)

The Ed Sullivan Show (2 episodes, 1963-1967)

"What's My Line?" (6 episodes, 1954-1966)

"The Bell Telephone Hour" (3 episodes, 1962-1965)

"Girl Talk" (1 episode, 1965)

"The Merv Griffin Show" (1 episode, 1965)

"The Hollywood Palace" (2 episodes, 1964)

The 35th Annual Academy Awards 1963 (TV)

"I've Got a Secret" (2 episodes, 1962)

"Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall" (2 episodes, 1958-1960)

"The Steve Allen Plymouth Show" (3 episodes, 1957-1959)

"The Bob Hope Show" (2 episodes, 1956-1959)

"The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (2 episodes, 1958-1959)

Accent on Love (1959) (TV)

Person to Person (1 episode, 1958)

"The Jack Benny Program" (1 episode, 1957)

"Playhouse 90" (1 episode, 1957)

"Climax!" (1 episode, 1956)

"The $64,000 Question" (1955) TV series

Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Great Entertainers (1953)

The 25th Annual Academy Awards 1953 (TV)

Grantland Rice Sportlight No. R11-10: A Sporting Oasis (1952)

Screen Snapshots: The Great Showman (1950)

Battle Stations (1944) (voice)

Show Business at War (1943)

Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 (1936)

Hollywood Newsreel (1934) (uncredited)

Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933)

Screen Snapshots (1932)

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 (1932)

Hollywood on Parade (1932)

Running Hollywood (1932)

Academy Awards

1941 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940)

Berlin International Film Festival

1970 Won C.I.D.A.L.C. Silver Medal For her outstanding achievements as a dancer and actress.

Golden Globes

1953 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy for: Monkey Business (1952)

Walk of Fame (Hollywood)

Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture At 6778 Hollywood Blvd.

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History has decreed that Ginger Rogers must waltz into posterity arm in arm with Fred Astaire, her costar and dancing partner in a string of nine legendary musicals made between 1933 and 1939. Of these, The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935) stand out especially, but all still dazzle with their skill, precision, and Art Deco elegance. They are exercises in pure style: their scripts frothy and trifling, and their backgrounds opulent and indistinct.

Though Astaire never quite clicked in the same way with another partner, Rogers was never merely the refined, elegant creature of these films. She had made 19 films before the partnership even began, including two for Busby Berkeley that more accurately convey her early 1930s persona. She was altogether spikier and sassier in 42nd Street (1933) as the wise-mouth chorus girl Anytime Annie, and again in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dancing to avoid the breadline. She was funny and sexy as an uninhibited radio star who marries for a promotional stunt in Professional Sweetheart (1933).

After the Astaire years she concentrated on comedy and the occasional women's picture, winning an Oscar for Best Actress for her role as the confused middle-class girl in Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940). She again registered strongly in Bachelor Mother (1939) and as the eponymous Roxie Hart (1942). By 1945 she was recorded as Hollywood's highest-paid female performer, but by the end of the decade, her career was in decline. She continued in films throughout the 1950s and took to Broadway in a successful run of Hello! Dolly (1965). She spent her later years doing guest spots on TV shows, and in 1985 she directed the musical stage comedy Babes in Arms.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

When you're happy, you don't count the years.

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

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Interred at Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, California, USA, the same cemetery as long-time dancing/acting partner Fred Astaire is located.

She didn't drink: she had her very own ice cream soda fountain

Was fashion consultant for the J.C. Penney chain from 1972-75.

A keen artist, Ginger did many paintings, sculptures and sketches in her free time but could never bring herself to sell any of them.

Was Hollywood's highest paid star of 1942.

Turned down lead roles in To Each His Own (1946) and The Snake Pit (1948).

She owned a lingerie factory in Rock Island Tennessee, called Form Fit Rogers.

One of the celebrities whose picture Anne Frank placed on the wall of her bedroom in the "Secret Annex" while in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Holland.

Her great-great-grandfather was a doctor who discovered quinine, the cure for malaria.

Turned down Donna Reed's role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Was offered the part of Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940), but she turned it down

Salary

The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) $12,500/week

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