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Ginger Rogers Biography and Filmography
Ginger Rogers
Birthday: July 16, 1911
Birth Place: Independence, Missouri, USA
Height: 5' 4"
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Biography
In step with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers was one half of the most legendary dancing team in film history; she was also a successful dramatic actress, even winning a Best Actress Oscar. Born Virginia McMath on July 16, 1911, in Independence, MO, as a toddler, she relocated to Hollywood with her newly divorced mother, herself a screenwriter. At the age of six, Rogers was offered a movie contract, but her mother turned it down. The family later moved to Fort Worth, where she first began appearing in area plays and musical revues. Upon winning a Charleston contest in 1926, Rogers' mother declared her ready for a professional career, and she began working the vaudeville circuit, fronting an act dubbed "Ginger and the Redheads." After marrying husband Jack Pepper in 1928, the act became "Ginger and Pepper." She soon traveled to New York as a singer with Paul Ash & His Orchestra, and upon filming the Rudy Vallee short Campus Sweethearts, she won a role in the 1929 Broadway production Top Speed.On Broadway, Rogers earned strong critical notice as well as the attention of Paramount, who cast her in 1930's Young Man of Manhattan, becoming typecast as a quick-witted flapper. Back on Broadway, she and Ethel Merman starred in Girl Crazy. Upon signing a contract with Paramount, she worked at their Astoria studio by day and returned to the stage in the evenings; under these hectic conditions she appeared in a number of films, including The Sap From Syracuse, Queen High, and Honor Among Lovers. Rogers subsequently asked to be freed of her contract, but soon signed with RKO. When her Broadway run ended, she went back to Hollywood, starring in 1931's The Tip-Off and The Suicide Fleet. When 1932's Carnival Boat failed to attract any interest, RKO dropped her and she freelanced around town, co-starring with Joe E. Brown in the comedy The Tenderfoot, followed by a thriller, The Thirteenth Guest, for Monogram. Finally, the classic 1933 musical 42nd Street poised her on the brink of stardom, and she next appeared in Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers of 1933.Rogers then returned to RKO, where she starred in Professional Sweetheart; the picture performed well enough to land her a long-term contract, and features like A Shriek in the Night and Sitting Pretty followed. RKO then cast her in the musical Flying Down to Rio, starring Delores Del Rio; however, the film was stolen by movie newcomer Astaire, fresh from Broadway. He and Rogers did not reunite until 1934's The Gay Divorcee, a major hit. Rogers resisted typecasting as strictly a musical star, and she followed with the drama Romance in Manhattan. Still, the returns from 1935's Roberta, another musical venture with Astaire, made it perfectly clear what kinds of films audiences expected Rogers to make, and although she continued tackling dramatic roles when the opportunity existed, she rose to major stardom alongside Astaire in classics like Top Hat, 1936's Follow the Fleet, Swing Time, and Shall We Dance? Even without Astaire, Rogers found success in musical vehicles, and in 1937 she and Katharine Hepburn teamed brilliantly in Stage Door.After 1938's Carefree, Rogers and Astaire combined for one final film, the following year's The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, before splitting. She still harbored the desire to pursue a dramatic career, but first starred in an excellent comedy, Bachelor Mother. In 1940, Rogers starred as the titular Kitty Foyle, winning an Academy Award for her performance. She next appeared in the 1941 Garson Kanin comedy Tom, Dick and Harry. After starring opposite Henry Fonda in an episode of Tales of Manhattan, she signed a three-picture deal with Paramount expressly to star in the 1944 musical hit Lady in the Dark. There she also appeared in Billy Wilder's The Major and the Minor and Leo McCarey's Once Upon a Honeymoon. Rogers then made a series of films of little distinction, including 1945's Weekend at the Waldorf (for which she earned close to 300,000 dollars, making her one of the highest-paid women in America), the following year's Magnificent Doll, and the 1947 screwball comedy It Had to Be You. Rogers then signed with the short-lived production company Enterprise, but did not find a project which suited her. Instead, for MGM she and Astaire reunited for 1949's The Barkleys of Broadway, their first color collaboration. The film proved highly successful, and rekindled her sagging career. She then starred in a pair of Warner Bros. pictures, the 1950 romance Perfect Strangers and the social drama Storm Warning. After 1951's The Groom Wore Spurs, Rogers starred in a trio of 1952 Fox comedies — We're Not Married, Monkey Business, and Dreamboat — which effectively halted whatever momentum her reunion with Astaire had generated, a situation remedied by neither the 1953 comedy Forever Female nor by the next year's murder mystery Black Widow. In Britain, she filmed Beautiful Stranger, followed by 1955's lively Tight Spot. With 1957's farcical Oh, Men! Oh, Women!, Rogers' Hollywood career was essentially finished, and she subsequently appeared in stock productions of Bell, Book and Candle, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and Annie Get Your Gun.In 1959, Rogers traveled to Britain to star in a television musical, Carissima. A few years later, she starred in a triumphant TV special, and also garnered good notices, taking over for Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! She also starred in Mame in London's West End, earning over 250,000 pounds for her work — the highest sum ever paid a performer by the London theatrical community. In 1965, Rogers entered an agreement with the Jamaican government to produce films in the Caribbean; however, shooting there was a disaster, and the only completed film to emerge from the debacle was released as Quick, Let's Get Married. That same year, she also starred as Harlow, her final screen performance. By the 1970s, Rogers was regularly touring with a nightclub act, and in 1980 headlined Radio City Music Hall. A tour of Anything Goes was among her last major performances. In 1991, she published an autobiography, Ginger: My Story. Rogers died April 25, 1995.
Filmography
Glitter (1984)
[ Markie Post ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Patricia Neal ][ Tracy Nelson ][ Cyd Charisse ]
The Critical Success/Love Lamp Is Lit, The/Take My Boy Friend, Please/Rent a Family/Man in Her Life: Part 2 (1979)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Roz Kelly ]
Harlow (1965)
[ Angela Lansbury ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Carroll Baker ][ Carol Lynley ]
Cinderella (1965)
[ Leslie Ann ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Pat Carroll ]
Shakespeare's 400th Anniversary (1964)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Confession (1964)
[ Barbara Eden ][ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Songs of Irving Berlin (1962)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Teenage Rebel (1956)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Carol Channing ]
Tight Spot (1955)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Beautiful Stranger (1954)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Black Widow (1954)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Gene Tierney ]
Forever Female (1953)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Marion Ross ]
Dreamboat (1952)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Elsa Lanchester ][ Anne Francis ]
We're Not Married! (1952)
[ Marilyn Monroe ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Zsa Zsa Gabor ][ Eve Arden ]
Monkey Business (1952)
[ Marilyn Monroe ][ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Storm Warning (1951)
[ Doris Day ][ Ginger Rodgers ]
Perfect Strangers (1950)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Billie Burke ]
It Had to Be You (1947)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Magnificent Doll (1946)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Heartbeat (1946)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
[ Lana Turner ][ Ginger Rodgers ]
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
[ Shirley Temple ][ Ginger Rodgers ]
Lady in the Dark (1944)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Tender Comrade (1943)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Roxie Hart (1942)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Major and the Minor (1942)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
[ Rita Hayworth ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Elsa Lanchester ][ Elaine Reynolds ]
Tom Dick and Harry (1941)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Lucky Partners (1940)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Primrose Path (1940)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
5th Ave Girl (1939)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Bachelor Mother (1939)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Carefree (1938)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Hattie McDaniel ]
Having Wonderful Time (1938)
[ Lucille Ball ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Eve Arden ]
Vivacious Lady (1938)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Hattie McDaniel ]
Stage Door (1937)
[ Lucille Ball ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Eve Arden ]
Shall We Dance (1937)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Swing Time (1936)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Follow the Fleet (1936)
[ Lucille Ball ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Betty Grable ]
Top Hat (1935)
[ Lucille Ball ][ Ginger Rodgers ]
Star of Midnight (1935)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Roberta (1935)
[ Lucille Ball ][ Ginger Rodgers ][ Irene Dunne ]
Romance in Manhattan (1935)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
In Person (1935)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Betty Grable ]
Change of Heart (1934)
[ Shirley Temple ][ Ginger Rodgers ]
Finishing School (1934)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Billie Burke ]
Upperworld (1934)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Joan Blondell ]
Broadway Bad (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Joan Blondell ]
42nd Street (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Foby Wing ]
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Sitting Pretty (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Chance at Heaven (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Rafter Romance (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
A Shriek in the Night (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Don't Bet on Love (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Professional Sweetheart (1933)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
You Said a Mouthful (1932)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Hat Check Girl (1932)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Tenderfoot (1932)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Carnival Boat (1932)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Suicide Fleet (1931)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Tip-Off (1931)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Honor Among Lovers (1931)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Claudette Colbert ]
Campus Sweethearts (1930)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
A Night in a Dormitory (1930)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Follow the Leader (1930)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Ethel Merman ]
Office Blues (1930)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Queen High (1930)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
The Sap from Syracuse (1930)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Young Man of Manhattan (1930)
[ Ginger Rodgers ][ Claudette Colbert ]
A Day of a Man of Affairs (1929)
[ Ginger Rodgers ]
Trivia
  • Daughter of Lela E. Rogers
  • Was a Christian Scientist.
  • Was given the name "Ginger" by her little cousin who couldn't pronounce "Virginia" correctly.
  • Brought her first cousin Helen Nichols to Hollywood, renamed her Phyllis Fraser, and guided her through a few films. Phyllis Fraser married and then became known as Phyllis Cerf.
  • Interred at Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, California, USA, the same cemetery as long-time dancing/acting partner Fred Astaire is located.
  • At age 19, she briefly dated famed, founding editor of New Yorker magazine Harold Ross, then 37.
  • Sort-of cousin of Rita Hayworth. Ginger's aunt married Rita's uncle.
  • She didn't drink: she had her very own ice cream soda fountain
  • Suffered with diabetes in her final years and a lot of the time was wheelchair bound.
  • Directed her first stage musical,'Babes in arms', at age 74
  • 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.
  • Author Graham Greene always said he would have liked Ginger to play the role of Aunt Augusta in the film version of his novel 'Travels With My Aunt' [when the film was made in 1972 the role was played by Maggie Smith].
  • The well known quote often attributed to Miss Rogers - "My first picture was 'Kitty Foyle'. It was my mother who made all those films with Fred Astaire" - was actually fabricated for a 1966 article in 'Films In Review'.
  • Always the outdoor sporty type, she was a near-champion tennis player, a topline shot and loved going fishing.
  • She made her final public appearance on 18th March 1995 (just five weeks before her death) when she received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award.
  • Was badly affected by diabetes in her last years which left her wheelchair bound and visibly overweight while her voice had become shrunken rasp.
  • Measurements: 34-23 1/2-34 1/2 (late 1950s), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
  • Related to Random House publisher and "What's My Line?" (1950) panelist Bennett Cerf, through marriage, when Bennett married Ginger's cousin Phyllis Fraser, who later became known as Phyllis Cerf.
  • Was asked to replaced Judy Garland in both the movies Harlow (1965/II) (which was filmed in eight days) and Valley of the Dolls (1967). She turned down "Dolls" because she hated the script; she did, however, do the quickie version of "Harlow" and, unlike the movie, garnered good reviews as Harlow's mother.
  • Aunt of Christopher Cerf and Jonathan Cerf.
  • Was a life-long Republican.
  • Turned down lead roles in To Each His Own (1946) and The Snake Pit (1948). Both of these roles went on to be played to great acclaim by Olivia de Havilland.
  • The first Rogers and Astaire teaming, Flying Down to Rio (1933), was her twentieth film appearance and only Fred's second.
  • In a 1991 TV interview when asked why the Astaire/Rogers union wasn't known as 'Ginger & Fred' rather than 'Fred & Ginger' (as Ginger had been in films longer), she replied, 'It's a man's world'.
  • Author Graham Greene always said he would have liked Ginger to play the role of Aunt Augusta in the film version of his novel Travels with My Aunt (1972) [when the film was made in 1972 the role was played by Maggie Smith].
  • Her tied to hip relationship with her domineering mother, Lela E. Rogers proved eternal. They're buried side by side at Oakwood memorial park. The grave of Ginger's screen partner, Fred Astaire, is just yards away.
  • Was named #14 Actress on The AFI 50 Greatest Screen Legends
  • Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue"
  • She and Fred Astaire acted in 10 movies together: The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), Carefree (1938), Flying Down to Rio (1933), Follow the Fleet (1936), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Shall We Dance (1937), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), Swing Time (1936) and Top Hat (1935)
  • She owned a lingerie factory in Rock Island Tennessee, called Form Fit Rogers.
  • She and Fred Astaire made 10 films together.
  • A distant cousin of Lucille Ball, according to Lucie Arnaz.

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