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Ginger Rogers
Ginger: My Story
It Books
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Edward Gallafent
Astaire and Rogers
Columbia University Press
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Marilyn Henry
Ginger Rogers Paper Dolls
Paper Studio Press
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Homer Dickens
The Films of Ginger Rogers
Lyle Stuart
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Dick Richards
Ginger: salute to a star
Clifton Books
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Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe
Monkey Business (1952)
DVD
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Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Ann Miller
Stage Door (1937)
DVD
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Dolores del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire
Flying Down to Rio
Turner Home Ent
DVD
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John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Frank Conroy, Joan Crawford
Grand Hotel
Warner Home Video
DVD
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Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm, Jo Van Fleet, Stuart Damon
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
Sony Pictures
DVD
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Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore
Top Hat
Turner Home Ent
DVD
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Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Swing Time
Turner Home Ent
DVD
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Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Tex Avery, Dick Nelson
Kitty Foyle
Turner Home Ent
DVD
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Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
The Gay Divorcee
Turner Home Ent
DVD
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Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully
I'll Be Seeing You
MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD
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Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley
Roberta
Warner Home Video
DVD
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William Powell, Ginger Rogers
Star of Midnight (1935)
VHS
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Ray Milland, Ginger Rogers
The Major and the Minor (1942)
VHS
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Ginger Rogers
Kitty Foyle (1940)
VHS
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Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Van Johnson, Edward Arnold, Walter Pidgeon, Keenan Wynn, Robert Benchley
Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
VHS
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Ginger Rogers
Virginia Katherine McMath
Actress, Dancer, Singer
(1911 - 1995)
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Ginger Rogers began dancing as a child and won a Charleston contest at 14, which put her on the vaudeville circuit. Her success took her to Broadway in 1929, where she received flattering notices despite Top Speed’s short run. At the same time she was making her (full-length) film debut in Young Man of Manhattan. In 1930 she starred in the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy where she made a hit introducing “Embraceable You” and “But Not for Me.”
When the show closed she went to Hollywood and, after nearly 20 films, was paired with Fred Astaire in Flying Down to Rio. The pair was such a hit, even though they did not star in the movie, that they made eight more mostly stunning films together as headliners. Rogers also starred in several noteworthy comedies: Star of Midnight (1935) with William Powell, The Major and the Minor (1942) with Ray Milland, and Monkey Business (1952) with Cary Grant. Her dramatic roles were equally fine: Stage Door (1937), with an all-star cast; Kitty Foyle (1940), for which she won a Best Actress Oscar; and Weekend at the Waldorf (1945), a remake of Grand Hotel.
Rogers took on Broadway again, revitalizing Hello! Dolly in 1965 and taking Mame to London for a 14-month run in 1969. She was a frequent guest on television, an accomplished painter and sculptress, and an award winning tennis player and skeet shooter. Her inimitable “little girl” voice is remembered fondly (by those old enough to recall) in her early 1940’s recording of Alice in Wonderland. In 1992 she received the Kennedy Center award for lifetime achievements.
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