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Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath, July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. In a film career spanning fifty years she made a total of seventy-three films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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Jack Pepper (born Decent cheese johnson, June 14, 1902 – April 1, 1979) was an American vaudeville dancer-singer and later a Dallas nightclub manager. ...
Lew Ayres (December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996) was an American actor. ...
Jacques Bergerac, born May 26, 1927 in Biarritz, France, was a French actor with a brief Hollywood film career. ...
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Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. ...
Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a 1940 film which tells the story of a white-collar girl who falls in love with a young socialite, despite the objections of his family. ...
is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ...
[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life She was born in Independence, Missouri, the daughter of Eddins McMath, of Scottish ancestry and Lela Owens McMath, of Welsh ancestry. Her mother separated from Rogers' father soon after her birth, and mother and daughter went to live with the Walter Owens family in nearby Kansas City. Independence is a city in Missouri, in the Kansas City metropolitan area. ...
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Her parents divorced and fought for custody, with her father even kidnapping her twice. After they divorced, Rogers stayed with her grandparents, Walter and Saphrona Owens, while her mother wrote scripts for two years in Hollywood. Several of Rogers' cousins had a hard time pronouncing her first name Virginia, shortening it to "Ginya". ...
When she was nine years old, her mother got remarried to a man named John Logan Rogers. Ginger took the name of Rogers, although she was never legally adopted. They lived in Fort Worth, Texas, and her mother became a theater critic for a local newspaper, the Fort Worth Record. Nickname: Motto: Where the West Begins Location of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas Coordinates: , Country State Counties Tarrant and Denton Government - Mayor Michael J. Moncrief Area - City 298. ...
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As a teenager, she thought of teaching school, but with her mother's interest in Hollywood and the theater, her young exposure to the theater increased. Waiting for her mother in the wings of the Majestic Theatre, she began to sing and dance along to the performers on stage.
[edit] Vaudeville Five years later her entertainment career was born one night when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in. She would enter and win a Charleston contest and then hit the road on a Vaudeville tour. Her mother and she would tour for four years. During this time her mother divorced John Rogers, but kept his surname. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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When only 17 she married Jack Culpepper, another dancer on the circuit. The marriage was over within months, and she went back to touring with her mother. When the tour got to New York City, she stayed, getting radio singing jobs and then her Broadway theater debut in a musical called Top Speed, which opened on Christmas Day, 1929. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...
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[edit] Film career
[edit] 1929-1933 Her first movie roles were in a trio of short films made in 1929 — Night in the Dormitory, A Day of a Man of Affairs, and Campus Sweethearts.
Within two weeks of opening in Top Speed she was hired to star in Girl Crazy by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Fred Astaire was hired to help the dancers with their choreography, and he briefly dated Rogers. Her appearance in Girl Crazy made her an overnight star at the age of 19. In 1930 she was signed with Paramount Pictures for a seven-year contract. Girl Crazy is a theater musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. ...
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Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 – 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. ...
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ...
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Rogers would soon get herself out of the Paramount contract and move with her mother to Hollywood. When she got to California, she signed a three-picture deal with Pathé, which resulted in three forgettable pictures. After getting bit parts for singing and dancing for most of 1932, in 1933 she made her screen breakthrough in 42nd Street (film) with Warner Brothers. Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France. ...
42nd Street is a 1933 musical film, set on the famous Manhattan street of that name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ...
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She went on to make a series of films with RKO and, in the second of those, Flying Down to Rio (1933), she again met up with Fred Astaire. RKO could stand for: RKO Pictures The R.K.O. - finishing manoever (and initials) of WWE professional wrestler Randy Orton. ...
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[edit] 1933-1939: Fred and Ginger
 The announcement of the Astaire-Rogers screen partnership - from the trailer to Flying Down to Rio Ginger Rogers was most famous for her partnership with Fred Astaire. Together, from 1933 to 1939 they made nine musical films at RKO and in so doing, revolutionized the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity, set to songs specially composed for them by the greatest popular song composers of the day, and performed in some of the most glamorous Art Deco-inspired sets ever seen on film. To this day, "Fred and Ginger" remains an almost automatic reference for any successful dance partnership. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Croce, Hyam and Mueller all consider Ginger Rogers to have been Astaire's finest dance partner, principally due to her ability to combine dancing skills, natural beauty and exceptional abilities as a dramatic actress and comedienne, thus truly complementing Astaire: a peerless dancer who sometimes struggled as an actor and was not considered classically handsome. The resulting song and dance partnership enjoyed a unique credibility in the eyes of audiences, as bluntly expressed by Katharine Hepburn: "She gives him sex, he gives her class." Of the 33 partnered dances she filmed with Astaire, Croce and Mueller have highlighted the infectious spontaneity of her performances in the comic numbers "I'll Be Hard to Handle" from Roberta (1935), "I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket" from Follow the Fleet (1936) and "Pick Yourself Up" from Swing Time (1936). They also point to the use Astaire made of her remarkably flexible back in classic romantic dances such as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from Roberta (1935), "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat (1935) and "Let's Face the Music and Dance" from Follow the Fleet (1936). For special praise, they have singled out her performance in the "Waltz in Swing Time" from Swing Time (1936), which is generally considered to be the most virtuosic partnered routine ever committed to film by Astaire. She generally avoided solo dance performances: Astaire always included at least one virtuoso solo routine in each film while Rogers only ever performed one: "Let Yourself Go" from Follow the Fleet (1936). Image File history File links Fredginger. ...
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Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Smoke Gets In Your Eyes from Roberta (1935): RKO publicity still Roberta is a 1935 musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. ...
Arlene Croce (born 1934) was a dance critic for the New Yorker magazine from 1973 to 1998. ...
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This is a quick reference guide to over one hundred and forty of Fred Astaires Solo and Partnered Dances compiled from his thirty-one Hollywood musical comedy films produced between 1933 and 1968, and his award-winning television special An Evening with Fred Astaire (1958). ...
Ill Be Hard to Handle is a 1942 song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Bernard Dougall. ...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Smoke Gets In Your Eyes from Roberta (1935): RKO publicity still Roberta is a 1935 musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. ...
Im Putting all My Eggs in One Basket is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1936 film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. ...
Follow the Fleet (RKO) is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Lucille Ball, and Betty Grable, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. ...
Pick Yourself Up is a popular song composed in 1936 by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. ...
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is a song written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for their 1933 Broadway musical Roberta. ...
Cheek to Cheek is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Top Hat (1935). ...
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Lets Face the Music and Dance is a notable song, written by Irving Berlin, made particularly notable by a famous dance by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film Follow the Fleet. ...
Let Yourself Go may refer to: Let Yourself Go (808 State single), a single by 808 State Let Yourself Go (Sybil Lynch single), a single by Sybil Lynch Let Yourself Go (T-Connection single), a single by T-Connection Let Yourself Go (WestBam single), a single by WestBam Let Yourself...
 Ginger Rogers' feet and hand prints at Grauman's Chinese theater Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his assistant Hermes Pan, both have acknowledged Rogers's input into the process, and have also testified to her consummate professionalism, even during periods of intense strain as she tried to juggle her many other contractual film commitments with the punishing rehearsal schedules of Astaire, who made at most two films in any one year. In 1986, shortly before his death, Astaire remarked: "All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn't do it, but of course they could. So they always cried. All except Ginger. No no, Ginger never cried". John Mueller sums up Rogers's abilities as follows: "Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners not because she was superior to others as a dancer but because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began...the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable". Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 1. ...
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Ginger Rogers also introduced some celebrated numbers from the Great American Songbook, songs such as Harry Warren and Al Dubin's "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" from Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), "Music Makes Me" from Flying Down to Rio (1933), "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee (1934), Irving Berlin's "Let Yourself Go" from Follow the Fleet (1936) and the Gershwins' "Embraceable You" from Girl Crazy and "They All Laughed (at Christopher Columbus)" from Shall We Dance (1937). Furthermore, in song duets with Astaire, she co-introduced Berlin's "I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket" from Follow the Fleet (1936), Jerome Kern's "Pick Yourself Up" and "A Fine Romance" from Swing Time (1936) and the Gershwins' "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" from Shall We Dance (1937). Songwriter Harold Arlen (right) with singer Bing Crosby (left) and Decca Records owner Jack Kapp (center) Great American Songbook is an informal term referring to the interrelated music of Broadway musical theater, the Hollywood musical, and Tin Pan Alley, in a period that begins roughly in the 1920s and tapers...
Harry Warren (December 24, 1893 - September 22, 1981) was a music composer of many different styles. ...
Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Swiss-born lyricist. ...
The Gold Diggers Song (Were in the Money) is a song from the 1933 film Gold Diggers of 1933, sung in the opening sequence by Ginger Rogers and chorus. ...
Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with choreography by Busby Berkeley. ...
Flying Down to Rio is a musical film made by RKO and released on December 29, 1933. ...
The Continental is a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live featuring Christopher Walken. ...
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ...
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. ...
Let Yourself Go may refer to: Let Yourself Go (808 State single), a single by 808 State Let Yourself Go (Sybil Lynch single), a single by Sybil Lynch Let Yourself Go (T-Connection single), a single by T-Connection Let Yourself Go (WestBam single), a single by WestBam Let Yourself...
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Embraceable You is a popular song. ...
Girl Crazy is a theater musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. ...
They All Laughed is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, written for the 1937 film Shall We Dance where it was introduced by Ginger Rogers as part of a song and dance routine with Fred Astaire. ...
Shall We Dance is the seventh in the sequence of ten Astaire-Rogers musical comedy films. ...
Im Putting all My Eggs in One Basket is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1936 film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire. ...
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music. ...
Pick Yourself Up is a popular song composed in 1936 by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. ...
A Fine Romance is a popular song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. ...
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Lets Call the Whole Thing Off is a song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance. ...
Shall We Dance is the seventh in the sequence of ten Astaire-Rogers musical comedy films. ...
[edit] After 1939 In 1939 Rogers requested a break from musicals saying "I don't want to make a musical for the next year. Don't get me wrong—I'm not ungrateful for what musicals have accomplished for me. However for the last four years I've been doing the same thing with minor variations." After breaking with Astaire, her first role was opposite David Niven in Bachelor Mother. In 1941 Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in 1940s Kitty Foyle. She enjoyed considerable success during the early 1940s, and was RKO's hottest property during this period, however, by the end of this decade her film career was in decline. Arthur Freed reunited her with Fred Astaire for one last time in The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) which, while very successful, failed to revive Rogers's flagging career, although she continued to obtain parts throughout the 1950s. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
Bachelor Mother (Garson Kanin; US, 1939) is a comedy film starring Ginger Rogers (in a non-dancing, non-singing role), David Niven and Charles Coburn. ...
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. ...
Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a 1940 film which tells the story of a white-collar girl who falls in love with a young socialite, despite the objections of his family. ...
Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 - April 12, 1973) was born Arthur Grossman in Down Ton Ton Village. ...
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In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire: she presented him with a special Academy Award in 1950, and they teamed up in 1967 as co-presenters of individual Academy Awards. The Kennedy Center honored Ginger Rogers in December 1992, an event which when shown on television, was somewhat marred when Astaire's widow, Robyn Smith (who permitted clips of Astaire dancing with Rogers to be shown for free at the function, itself), was unable to agree terms with CBS for broadcast rights to the clips.[2] Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
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[edit] Personal life In 1940 Rogers purchased a 1000-acre (4 km²) ranch between Shady Cove, Oregon and Eagle Point, Oregon, along the Rogue River, just north of Medford. The ranch, named the 4-R's (for Rogers's Rogue River Ranch), is where she would live, along with her mother, when not doing her Hollywood business, for 50 years. The ranch was also a dairy, and supplied milk to Camp White for the war effort during World War II. Rogers loved to fish the Rogue every summer. She sold the ranch in 1990 and moved to Medford. This article is about a type of land use and method of raising livestock. ...
Shady Cove is a city located in Jackson County, Oregon. ...
Eagle Point is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. ...
Rogue River Gorge, Oregon The mouth of the Rogue River in the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach, Oregon The Rogue River is located in southwest Oregon. ...
Motto: The Center of the Rogue Valley Location in Oregon Coordinates: , Country State County Jackson County Incorporated February 24, 1885 Government - Mayor Gary Wheeler Area - City 21. ...
A dairy farm near Oxford, New York in the United States. ...
Camp White was an Army training base in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, during World War II. It was also the site of a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. ...
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Politically, Rogers was a Republican. [citation needed] The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ...
She lived for much of her life with her mother, Lela Rogers (1891–1977), who was a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, and movie producer. Lela was also one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps, and was a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ...
The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA) was an organization of politically conservative movie workers who wanted to defend the movie industry against Communist infiltration. ...
Rogers's mother "named names" to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and both mother and daughter were staunchly anti-Communist. They had an extremely close mother-daughter relationship — Rogers's mother even denied Rogers's father visitation rights after their divorce. HUAC hearings House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA) (1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
Rogers's first marriage was to her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper) on March 29, 1929. They divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. In 1934, she married her second husband, actor Lew Ayres (1908 – 1996). They separated quickly and were divorced in 1941. In 1943, she married her third husband, Jack Briggs, a Marine. They divorced in 1949. Jack Pepper (born Decent cheese johnson, June 14, 1902 – April 1, 1979) was an American vaudeville dancer-singer and later a Dallas nightclub manager. ...
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Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Lew Ayres (December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996) was an American actor. ...
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ...
A recent biography of actor James Stewart claims that Stewart lost his virginity to Ginger Rogers. (New York Times Book Review, Nov.2006) For other persons named James Stewart, see James Stewart (disambiguation). ...
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In 1953, Rogers married her fourth husband, lawyer Jacques Bergerac. 16 years her junior, he became an actor and then a cosmetics company executive. They divorced in 1957 and he soon remarried actress Dorothy Malone. In 1961, she married her fifth husband, director and producer William Marshall. They divorced in 1971. For the fish called lawyer, see Burbot. ...
Jacques Bergerac, born May 26, 1927 in Biarritz, France, was a French actor with a brief Hollywood film career. ...
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William Horace Marshall(19 August 1924 - 11 June 2003) was an African American actor, director, opera singer, and Shakesperian. ...
Rogers was good friends with Lucille Ball (a distant cousin on her mother's side) for many years until Ball's death in 1989, at the age of 77. Ball did not seem to share Rogers's political views, but evidently still enjoyed her friendship, as did Bette Davis, a Democrat who definitely did not share Rogers's views and called her a "moralist", but still professed to enjoying her company. Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedian, actress and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Heres Lucy. ...
For the singer, see Betty Davis, for the meteorologist, see Betty Davis (meteorologist). ...
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Ginger Rogers was a cousin of actress/writer/socialite Phyllis Fraser (whose acting career was brief). Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner was an American actress, journalist, and childrens book publisher, and the co-founder of Beginner Books. ...
It has been said in books and other publications that Rogers was Rita Hayworth's cousin but they were not blood relatives. Their connection is as follows: Hayworth's mother's brother, Vinton Hayworth (Hayworth's uncle), was married to Rogers's mother's sister, Jean Owens (Rogers's aunt).
Rogers would spend the winters in Rancho Mirage, California, and the summers in Medford, Oregon. Ginger Rogers died on April 25, 1995, of congestive heart failure, at the age of 83, in Rancho Mirage, and was cremated. Her ashes are interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. Rancho Mirage is a city located in Riverside County, California. ...
Motto: The Center of the Rogue Valley Location in Oregon Coordinates: , Country State County Jackson County Incorporated February 24, 1885 Government - Mayor Gary Wheeler Area - City 21. ...
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The Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 22601 Lassen Street, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. ...
Chatsworth is a community of Los Angeles, bordered by the Santa Susana Mountains and unincorporated Los Angeles County lands to the north, Porter Ranch to the northeast, Northridge to the east, West Hills to the south, and the Simi Hills, Ventura County, Simi Valley, and Chatsworth Lake Manor to the...
The Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in Medford, Oregon is named in her honor.
[edit] Portrayals of Ginger Rogers A musical about the life of Ginger Rogers, entitled Backwards in High Heels, premiered in Florida in early 2007.[1]
[edit] Quotations about Rogers - "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels."[2]
- "Fred gave Ginger class, and Ginger gave Fred sex." Katharine Hepburn, actress. Variants include "Astaire gave her class, and Rogers gave him sex" and "He gave her class, and she gave him sex appeal."
- Madonna sings "Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, dance on air" in her famous song "Vogue", an apparent homage to the legendary actress and dancer.
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[edit] Filmography
[edit] Features Young Man of Manhattan is a 1930 film directed by Monta Bell, and starring Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster and Ginger Rogers. ...
Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Queen High is the title of an early musical-comedy produced by Paramount Pictures on 1930. ...
In a marching band Follow-the Leader is a visual effect. ...
Honor Among Lovers is a 1931 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Dorothy Arzner. ...
Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Thirteenth Guest were a four piece Jazz/Rock/Fusion band from Glasgow formed 1979 and disbanded in 1981 when the members all went their respective ways. ...
42nd Street is a 1933 musical film, set on the famous Manhattan street of that name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ...
Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with choreography by Busby Berkeley. ...
A Shriek in the Night is a 1933 starring Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot and Harvey Clark. ...
Rafter Romance is a 1933 film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, George Sidney, Robert Benchley, Laura Hope Crews and Guinn Williams. ...
Sitting Pretty is a 1933 musical comedy film telling the story of two aspiring, but untalented, songwriters, played by Jack Oakie and Jack Haley. ...
Flying Down to Rio is a musical film made by RKO and released on December 29, 1933. ...
Twenty Million Sweethearts is a 1934 American musical film comedy directed by Ray Enright. ...
Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A finishing school is a type of private school for girls that emphasizes cultural studies and prepares students especially for social activities. ...
Change of Heart is a 1934 dramatic film starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple. ...
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ...
Romance in Manhattan is a 1935 American comedy/romance film directed by Stephen Roberts, starring Francis Lederer and Ginger Rogers. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Smoke Gets In Your Eyes from Roberta (1935): RKO publicity still Roberta is a 1935 musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. ...
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Follow the Fleet (RKO) is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Lucille Ball, and Betty Grable, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Shall We Dance is the seventh in the sequence of ten Astaire-Rogers musical comedy films. ...
Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Stage Door is a 1937 film that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a single boarding house. ...
Vivacious Lady is a 1938 (see 1938 in film) US comedy film starring James Stewart, Ginger Rogers and directed by George Stevens. ...
Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Having Wonderful Time is a 1938 film. ...
Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Carefree is a 1938 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. ...
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is a biographical musical comedy starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver and Walter Brennan. ...
Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Bachelor Mother (Garson Kanin; US, 1939) is a comedy film starring Ginger Rogers (in a non-dancing, non-singing role), David Niven and Charles Coburn. ...
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Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a 1940 film which tells the story of a white-collar girl who falls in love with a young socialite, despite the objections of his family. ...
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Roxie Hart is a 1942 film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley, and Spring Byington billy bob marley. ...
Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Tales of Manhattan is a 1942 black-and-white anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier. ...
The Major and the Minor is a 1942 film. ...
Once Upon a Honeymoon is a 1956 musical Ephemeral film about a couple wishing for a new home. ...
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Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Lady in the Dark was a Broadway musical written by Kurt Weill (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics), and Moss Hart (book and direction). ...
Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Ill Be Seeing You was a 1944 movie with Joseph Cotten, Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple, about a prison inmate and a mentally ill soldier who spend Christmas together. ...
Week-End at the Waldorf is a 1945 American drama film. ...
Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ...
For the television programme, see Heartbeat (TV series) For the book by Sharon Creech, see Heartbeat (book) For the single by King Crimson, see Heartbeat (single) For the album by King Crimson, see Heartbeat: The Abbreviated King Crimson For the record label, see Heartbeat Records See also heart rate This...
Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It Had to Be You is a 1947 romantic-comedy film, starring Ginger Rogers and Cornel Wilde. ...
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Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Perfect Strangers (1950) is a motion picture starring Ginger Rogers. ...
Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See Severe weather terminology for a comprehensive article on this term and related weather terms. ...
Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Monkey Business is a screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, and Charles Coburn. ...
January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ...
Twist Of Fate was the second and final single by former Sugababes member, Siobhan Donaghy from her debut album, Revolution In Me. ...
Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Black Widow may refer to: In wildlife: The black widow spider, the common name for several species of venomous spider False black widow, spiders of the genus Steatoda, often mistaken for widow spiders Black widow (fish) (Stygnobrotula latebricola), a species of brotula In literature: Black Widow (Marvel Comics), two Marvel...
Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ...
The First Traveling Saleslady was a commercially unsuccessful 1956 movie starring Carol Channing, Ginger Rogers and a young Clint Eastwood (as Channings beau, no less, whose height she equals when wearing heels) which Channing admitted had helped close RKO Pictures. ...
A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Confession is a band consisting of Taylor Holland Armstrong (vocals), Kevin Fyfe (Guitar), Matt Pauling (Guitar), Jacob Ortiz (Bass), and Jeff Veta (Drums) with influences from Southern Rock, Heavy Metal, and Metalcore. ...
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Harlow is the title of two competing biographical films released through Paramount Pictures and the foreign film distributor Magna Pictures, both portraying the life of actress Jean Harlow. ...
Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...
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[edit] Short Subjects - A Day of a Man of Affairs (1929)
- A Night in a Dormitory (1930)
- Campus Sweethearts (1930)
- Office Blues (1930)
- Hollywood on Parade (1932)
- Screen Snapshots (1932)
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933)
- Hollywood Newsreel (1934)
- Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 (1936)
- Show Business at War (1943)
- Battle Stations (1944) (narrator)
- Screen Snapshots: The Great Showman (1950)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Great Entertainers (1953)
Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Show Business at War was a 1943 short (17 minutes) film touting the film industrys contribution to the war effort. ...
Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Audio sample: General quarters ( file info) — A call to general quarters aboard a United States Navy vessel. ...
Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ...
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award winning English actress. ...
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ...
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. ...
Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a 1940 film which tells the story of a white-collar girl who falls in love with a young socialite, despite the objections of his family. ...
Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning British American actress, who became an American citizen in April 1943. ...
Suspicion (1941) is a film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. ...
[edit] Television work Rodgers and Hammersteins Cinderella is the name of a musical written for television by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based upon the fairy tale, Cinderella. ...
Glitter is an American television soap opera screened on the ABC network during the 1984-1985 season. ...
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- ^ In a 1982 Frank and Ernest cartoon. Often incorrectly attributed to Faith Whittlesey, Ann Richards (who said it in a 1988 speech), or to Ms. Rogers herself, but the official Ginger Rogers website attributes it to Thaves. The quote is given in its more usual form, but it appeared in the comic as "Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards... and in high heels."
Frank and Ernest is a comic strip created and illustrated by Bob Thaves. ...
This article is about the American politician/teacher, for the Australian-American actress, see Ann Richards (actress). ...
[edit] References - Fred Astaire (1986 archive footage), The 100 Greatest Musicals, Channel 4 television, 2003
- Fred Astaire: Steps in Time, 1959, multiple reprints.
- Arlene Croce: The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book, Galahad Books 1974, ISBN 0-88365-099-1
- Hannah Hyam: Fred and Ginger - The Astaire-Rogers Partnership 1934-1938, Pen Press Publications, Brighton, 2007. ISBN 978-1-905621-96-5
- John Mueller: Astaire Dancing - The Musical Films of Fred Astaire, Knopf 1985, ISBN 0-394-51654-0
- Ginger Rogers: Ginger My Story, New York: Harper Collins, 1991
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