Born in Independence, Missouri, and raised in Kansas City, Rogers and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas when she was nine years old. 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. In 1930, Paramount Pictures signed her to a seven-year contract. Rogers' entertainment career began when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in. Fred Astaire was hired to help the dancers with their choreography. [2]:11 Her parents separated shortly after she was born. In Roxie Hart (1942), based on the same play which later served as the template for the musical Chicago, Rogers played a wisecracking flapper in a love triangle on trial for the murder of her lover; set in the era of prohibition. Successful comedies included Vivacious Lady (1938) with James Stewart, Fifth Avenue Girl (1939), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family, and Bachelor Mother (1939), with David Niven, in which she played a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby. Rogers was known for her partnership with Fred Astaire. They lived in Fort Worth. Nov 25, 2018 - Explore Kimber Rudo's board "Ginger Rogers Dresses" on Pinterest. [12] When the tour got to New York City, she stayed, getting radio singing jobs and then her Broadway debut in the musical Top Speed, which opened on Christmas Day, 1929. 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On July 16, 1994, Ginger and her secretary, Roberta Olden, visited Independence, Missouri to appear at the Ginger Rogers' Day celebration presented by the city. She made everything work for her. She had a baby earlier in their marriage and he allowed the doctor to use forceps and the baby died. From the 1950s onward, Rogers made occasional appearances on television, even substituting for a vacationing Hal March on The $64,000 Question. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's first movie together was Flying Down to Rio. Wholesome but sexy, forthright and vulnerable, honest and energetic, Ginger Rogers was one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the Thirties and Forties. In their very first film together, Astaire and Rogers knocked it out … Everyone knows.". One of Rogers' young cousins, Helen, had a hard time pronouncing "Virginia", shortening it to "Badinda"; the nickname soon became "Ginga". (see photos for complete playlists) : 1) FRED ASTAIRE: Nothing Thrilled Us Half As Much (1964) (Epic-Footlight Series - FLM-13103) - White Label Promo Fred Astaire sings and … The Kiss - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. She devoted a great deal of time in her autobiography to the importance of her faith throughout her career. FRED ASTAIRE & GINDER ROGERS SING TOGETHER AND ON SOLO LP's ++ GINGER ROGERS AUTOGRAPH! 2 for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. And so, Ginger Rogers admits, without batting an aquamarine eye, that she owns 100 dozen pairs of shoes. During her final years, the star spent her summers in Medford, Oregon and her winters in Rancho Mirage. [20] Rogers was a lifelong member of the Republican Party, who campaigned for Thomas Dewey in the 1944 presidential election[21] and was a strong opponent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaking out against both him and his New Deal proposals. Milk for the Soldiers. She also had a very outgoing personality, which was very much part of her talent. She had previously played in some Warner Bros. musical. While at RKO Plunkett also designed the costumes for the start of Ginger Rogers’ career with Fred Astaire as her dance partner in Flying Down to Rio. Her mother, known as Lelee, went to Independence to have Ginger away from her husband. In 1941 Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in 1940's Kitty Foyle. “When we were making ‘Gold Diggers of 1933, I was on stage, rehearsing my song, ‘We’re in the Money.’ The local newspaper commented, “Clever little Ginger Rogers showed why she won the Texas state championship as a Charleston dancer.”[11]. Love Shortfilms. This theater honored her years later by changing its name to the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater. For Miss Rogers It wasn't hard at all. They are from 78 rpm records and the sound is fairly good. " Arlene Croce, Hermes Pan, Hannah Hyam, and John Mueller all consider Rogers to have been Astaire's finest dance partner, principally because of her ability to combine dancing skills, natural beauty, and exceptional abilities as a dramatic actress and comedian, thus truly complementing Astaire, a peerless dancer. Rogers had her first successful film roles as a supporting actress in 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). She followed those with a role in Dreamboat alongside Clifton Webb, as his wife. This film featured a performance by Rogers' real mother, Lela, playing her film mother. On March 18, 1995, Ginger Rogers made her last public appearance, receiving the Women’s International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award. Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911. When she got to California, she signed a three-picture deal with Pathé Exchange. They revolutionized the Hollywood musical by introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity with sweeping long shots set to songs specially composed for them by the greatest popular song composers of the day. They divorced seven years later. Rogers was lifelong friends with actresses Lucille Ball and Bette Davis. Ginger Rogers sings “Night and Day”: Check out my blog about Ginger’s life and career http://www.viviantalksgingerrogers.blogspot.com. The fitness guru and radio personality had claimed that Rogers was on her radio show when, in fact, she was not. [citation needed]. Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911. They divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. Her acting was well received by critics and audiences in films such as Stage Door (1937), Vivacious Lady (1938), Bachelor Mother (1939), The Major and the Minor (1942) and I'll Be Seeing You (1944). Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, nine of them with RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, The Barkleys of Broadway , with MGM in 1949, their only color film . However, by the end of the decade, her film career had peaked. She continued to act, making television appearances until 1987 and wrote an autobiography Ginger: My Story which was published in 1991. [2]:1, 2, 11After unsuccessfully trying to reunite with his family, McMath kidnapped his daughter twice, and her mother divorced him soon thereafter. The resulting song and dance partnership enjoyed a unique credibility in the eyes of audiences. When I was kid, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films often used to be shown on the television on Sunday afternoons. Her fifth and final husband was director and producer William Marshall. She had a baby earlier in their marriage and he allowed the doctor to use forceps and the baby died. When Rogers was nine years old, her mother married John Logan Rogers. [10] When the M.G.M film The Barrier premiered in San Bernardino, California in February 1926, Rogers’ vaudeville act was featured. The beautiful and talented Virginia Katherine McMath who became Ginger Rogers was a singing, dancing actress who got her first part in a movie whilst still a teenager. A Republican and a devout Christian Scientist, Rogers married and divorced five times, having no children. She had many talents, such as singing, dancing and acting. It contains memorabilia, magazines, movie posters, and many items from Ginger's ranch that Lela and Ginger owned. But Rogers' popularity was peaking by the end of the decade. After 15 months apart and with RKO facing bankruptcy, the studio paired Fred and Ginger for another movie titled Carefree, but it lost money. As a teenager, Rogers thought of becoming a school teacher, but with her mother's interest in Hollywood and the theater, her early exposure to the theater increased. [18], For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Rogers has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6772 Hollywood Boulevard.[19]. Her mother, known as Lelee, went to Independence to have Ginger away from her husband. Her grandparents, Walter and Saphrona Owens, lived close to them. No, no, Ginger never cried". I have seen quite a few of her movies and own quite a few also, and enjoy watching them often! It closed in August 2019.[24]. Of the 33 partnered dances Rogers performed 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, "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" from Follow the Fleet, and "Pick Yourself Up" from Swing Time. Waiting for her mother in the wings of the Majestic Theatre, she began to sing and dance along with the performers on stage. [13], John Mueller summed up Rogers' abilities as: "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". The City of Independence, Missouri, designated the birthplace of Ginger Rogers a Historic Landmark Property in 1994. He had started as a youth in Vaudeville where he danced with his sister. During her long career, Rogers made 73 films and she ranks number 14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of female stars of classic American cinema. Rogers and her mother moved to Hollywood to live with her grandparents, and for her mother to continue pursuing a career as a scriptwriter. This was one of her last public appearances. And a beauty which no one can deny. The production starred Broadway talents Donna Theodore, Carleton Carpenter, James Brennan, Randy Skinner, Karen Ziemba, Dwight Edwards, and Kim Morgan. She died of natural causes in 1995, at age 83. Upon his return from World War II, Briggs showed no interest in continuing his incipient Hollywood career. Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood and is often considered an American icon. It was produced by Michael Lipton and Robert Kennedy of Kennedy Lipton Productions. Her mother, known as Lelee, went to Independence to have Ginger away from her husband. She also wrote a children's mystery book with her daughter as the central character.[22]. Her docking there occasioned the maximum of pomp and ceremony at Southampton. Both before and immediately after her dancing and acting partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Rogers starred in a number of successful nonmusical films. http://archive.org/details/Hello_Ginger_201307, http://archive.org/details/OutakesFromClassicHollywoodMusicals, http://ia601501.us.archive.org/12/items/OutakesFromClassicHollywoodMusicals/GingerRogersSuddenlyItsSpring.mp3, http://ia701501.us.archive.org/12/items/OutakesFromClassicHollywoodMusicals/MgmStudioOrchSwingTrotcomplete.mp3, Isn't it a Lovely Day (to Be Caught in the Rain), http://archive.org/details/AliceFayeAndOtherGreatStarsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, http://archive.org/details/LetYourselfGo1936, http://archive.org/details/GingerRogers-01-04, http://archive.org/details/FredAstaire-31-33, Music Makes Me (Do The Things I Never Should Do), http://archive.org/details/FredAstaire-21-30, http://archive.org/details/Swingtime1936AndTheGayDivorcee1934, http://archive.org/details/ShallWeDance1937FredAstaireAndGingerRogers, http://archive.org/details/TopHat1935AndTheGayDivorcee1934, http://archive.org/details/DickPowellGingerRogers-IllStringAlongWithYou, http://archive.org/details/ATreasuryOfWarnerBrosClassicMovieSoundtracksVolumeOne, http://archive.org/details/JackHaleyGingerRogers-DidYouEverSeeADreamWalking1933, http://archive.org/details/JackHaleyGingerRogers-YoureSuchAComfortToMe1933, http://archive.org/details/MovieSoundracks-DialogueAndMusicalsExcerptsFrom1926-1949, The item with George Raft's introduction on this page cuts Ginger out of the song completely, This is just the music when Ginger dances with Fred Astaire, in their first dance together of the movie, http://archive.org/details/SoundtracksFromHollywoodMusicalsVolumeTwo, http://ia601502.us.archive.org/28/items/SoundtracksFromHollywoodMusicalsVolumeTwo/RobertE.LeeFromTheStoryOfIreneAndVernonCastle1939.mp3. She appeared with Ball in an episode of Here's Lucy on November 22, 1971, in which Rogers danced the Charleston for the first time in many years. She died at her Rancho Mirage home on April 25, 1995, from natural causes at the age of 83. More Broadway roles followed, along with her stage directorial debut in 1985 of an off-Broadway production of Babes in Arms. The theater was comprehensively restored in 1997 and posthumously renamed in her honor as the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater. This was driven not by diminished popularity, but by the hard 1930s economic reality. Singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over sixty hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Actually she made things very fine for both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success. In 1925 the 14-year-old entered and won a Charleston dance contest, the prize allowed her to tour as Ginger Rogers and the Redheads for six months on the Orpheum Circuit. Next came The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, based on a true story, but the serious plot and tragic ending resulted in the worst box-office receipts of any of their films. [2]:9, 10[2]:16[3] Her maternal grandparents were Wilma Saphrona (née Ball) and Walter Winfield Owens. You know, the most effective partner I ever had. Roger's parents separated before she was born. Jamie Bell et Margaret Qualley seront Fred Astaire et Ginger Rogers dans un biopic pour Amazon Studi. The marriage was over within a year, and she went back to touring with her mother. Rogers' film career entered a period of gradual decline in the 1950s, as parts for older actresses became more difficult to obtain, but she still scored with some solid movies. Impressively, their fabulous looks weren't always the result of the studio's wardrobe department -- Rogers and Astaire were both fashion-conscious and took particular care in … On March 29, 1929, Rogers married for the first time at age 17 to her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper). Sandrich suggested that Rogers wear the white gown she had worn performing "Night and Day" in The Gay Divorcee (1934). Ginger Rogers Day in some form or fashion for we Gingerologists, right? Ginger had been in over 30 films before pairing up with Fred Astaire, but it was this partnership that became iconic. In the 1930s, Rogers' nine films with Fred Astaire are credited with revolutionizing the genre and gave RKO Pictures some of its biggest successes, most notably The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936). Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his collaborator Hermes Pan, both have 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. Her mother later divorced her father. ...well, we gotta narrow that down, of course, as purt near EVERY day is Later on, her mother remarried to John Logan Rogers, whose last name Ginger adopted in her screen name, and moved to Fort Worth, Texas – meanwhile, one of her cousins gave her the nickname Ginger that stuck. Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911. Hello Ginger!" Beauty and class, a well known classical actress! Within two weeks of opening in Top Speed, Rogers was chosen to star on Broadway in Girl Crazy by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. All except Ginger. At 17, Rogers married Jack Culpepper, a singer/dancer/comedian/recording artist of the day who worked under the name Jack Pepper (according to Ginger's autobiography and Life magazine, she knew Culpepper when she was a child, as her cousin's boyfriend). Lela Rogers was credited with many pivotal contributions to her daughter's early successes in New York City and in Hollywood, and gave her much assistance in contract negotiations with RKO. Rogers and her mother also had an extremely close professional relationship. Rogers fought hard for her contract and salary rights and for better films and scripts. She was also a member of The Daughters of the American Revolution. Her career continued on stage, radio and television throughout much of the 20th century. She then made a significant breakthrough as Anytime Annie in the Warner Bros. film 42nd Street (1933). [2]:26–29 Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather and much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California, so he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios. Virginia Katherine McMath was born on July 16, 1911, in Independence, Missouri, the only child of Lela Emogene (née Owens; 1891–1977), a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, and movie producer, and William Eddins McMath (1880–1925), an electrical engineer. Singin' In the Rain/Umbrella- Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Listen to Singing in the Rain from Ginger Rogers's Great Hits from the Movies, Vol. So they always cried. In 1953, she married Jacques Bergerac, a French actor 16 years her junior, whom she met on a trip to Paris. The acts included a Russian troupe performing a comedy routine with a sweet ending, Thelma White doing a song and dance number with a backup chorus of dancers, and the headliner, Ginger Rogers, singing a the complete album originally recorded in 1965 has been digitized and added to archive 0:08 [Read book] The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers book [PDF] Full Ebook. Ginger was present when Mayor Ron Stewart affixed a Historic Landmark Property plaque to the front of the house where she was born on July 16, 1911. Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men; I'll Be Seeing You (1944), with Joseph Cotten; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor (1942), in which she played a woman. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had to be two of the most stylish people to be captured on celluloid. She starred in the successful comedy Monkey Business (1952) and was critically lauded for her performance in Tight Spot (1955) before entering an unsuccessful period of filmmaking in the mid-1950s, and returned to Broadway in 1965, playing the lead role in Hello, Dolly! Then there is Ginger singing “We’re in the Money” from Gold Diggers of 1933. After winning the Oscar, Rogers became one of the biggest box-office draws and highest paid actresses of the 1940s.[1]. Downstairs in the auditorium there has been a screening of segments from some of Ginger Rogers’ seventy-three films. Rogers soon got herself out of the Paramount contract—under which she had made five feature films at Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens—and moved with her mother to Hollywood. This is not the Ginger we have seen upstairs. In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire; she presented him with a special Academy Award in 1950, and they were copresenters of individual Academy Awards in 1967, during which they elicited a standing ovation when they came on stage in an impromptu dance. Rogers starred in one of the earliest films co-directed and co-scripted by a woman, Wanda Tuchock's Finishing School (1934). DjordjeBrieuc49. The museum was open seasonally from April - September, and several special events are held on the site each year. Through flashbacks of the evening, she tells another one of the now awakened girls about their time at the Melody Club. [4]:3 She was of Scottish, Welsh, and English ancestry. When the M.G.M fi… Ginger took the surname Rogers, although she was never legally adopted. Jan 18, 2020 - I am a Ginger Rogers fan. In 1934, Rogers sued Sylvia of Hollywood for $100K for defamation. In the later years of her career, she made guest appearances in three different series by Aaron Spelling: The Love Boat (1979), Glitter (1984), and Hotel (1987), which was her final screen appearance as an actress. For the "Cheek to Cheek" number, Ginger Rogers wanted to wear an elaborate blue dress heavily decked out with ostrich feathers. She enjoyed considerable success during the early 1940s, and was RKO's hottest property during this period. She played the female lead in Tight Spot (1955), a mystery thriller, with Edward G. Robinson. Rogers spent winters in Rancho Mirage and summers in Medford, Oregon. Rogers is an effortlessly full-bodied dancer, whose movement is thrilling from head to toe. But after two commercial failures with Astaire, she turned her focus to dramatic and comedy films. Astaire answered, "...Ginger. Her appearance in Girl Crazy made her an overnight star at the age of 19. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were two of classic Hollywood’s biggest stars who rose to fame as dance partners. Two of her pictures at Pathé were Suicide Fleet (1931) and Carnival Boat (1932) in which she played opposite future Hopalong Cassidy star, William Boyd. After a series of unremarkable films, she scored a great popular success on Broadway in 1965, playing Dolly Levi in the long-running Hello, Dolly![17]. Her Last Appearance During the 1930s, they made nine films together and reunited for a tenth in the 1940s. who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period. 21 VIDEOS | 1231 IMAGES. ", In a 1976 episode of the popular British talk-show Parkinson (Season 5-Episode 24), host Sir Michael Parkinson asked Astaire who his favorite dancing partner was. This event, which was 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 come to terms with CBS Television for broadcast rights to the clips (all previous rights-holders having donated broadcast rights gratis). Ginger Rogers was born in Independence, Missouri, but she was raised mostly in Kansas City. She was raised a Christian Scientist and remained a lifelong adherent. Early Years of Ginger Rogers . 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, "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat, and "Let's Face the Music and Dance" from Follow the Fleet. In 1952 Rogers starred in two comedies featuring Marilyn Monroe, Monkey Business with Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hawks, and We're Not Married!. In 1925 the 14-year-old entered and won a Charleston dance contest, the prize allowed her to tour as Ginger Rogers and the Redheads for six months on the Orpheum Circuit. Hayworth's maternal uncle, Vinton Hayworth, was married to Rogers' maternal aunt, Jean Owens. The production ran for 14 months and featured a royal command performance for Queen Elizabeth II. Ginger dated Mervyn LeRoy in 1932, but they ended the relationship and remained friends until his death in 1987. Ginger Rogers made her last public appearance on 18 March 1995, when she received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award. She has dark hair and a high, squawky voice. [7], Rogers' entertainment career began when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in. There are a few recordings of Miss Ginger Rogers singing on archive.org and in the public domain. [5] Her mother gave birth to Ginger at home, having lost a previous child in a hospital. Her mother became a theater critic for a local newspaper, the Fort Worth Record. After becoming a free agent, Rogers made hugely successful films with other studios in the mid-'40s, including Tender Comrade (1943), Lady in the Dark (1944), and Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), and became the highest-paid performer in Hollywood. In 1943, Rogers married her third husband, Jack Briggs, who was a U.S. Marine. Pause People. One such composer was Cole Porter with "Night and Day", a song Astaire sang to Rogers with the line "...you are the one" in two of their movies, being particularly poignant in their last pairing of The Barkleys of Broadway. [12] They formed a short-lived vaudeville double act known as "Ginger and Pepper". She reunited with Astaire in 1949 in the commercially successful The Barkleys of Broadway. She was also paid less than many of the supporting "farceurs" billed beneath her, in spite of her much more central role in the films' great financial successes. Lela, a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, and movie producer, was also one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps, was a founder of the successful "Hollywood Playhouse" for aspiring actors and actresses on the RKO set, and a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Rogers maintained a close friendship with her cousin, writer/socialite Phyllis Fraser, wife of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf, but was not Rita Hayworth's natural cousin, as has been reported. Rogers' 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. In 1969, she had the lead role in another long-running popular production, Mame, from the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End of London, arriving for the role on the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 from New York City. They married in 1961 and divorced in 1969, after his bouts with alcohol and the financial collapse of their joint film production company in Jamaica. In 1934, she married actor Lew Ayres (1908–96). The production costs of musicals, always significantly more costly than regular features, continued to increase at a much faster rate than admissions. Most of the film takes place in a women's jail. Several gowns that Ginger Rogers wore are on display. [23] Rogers' mother died in 1977. [1][25][26] She was cremated and her ashes interred with her mother Lela Emogene in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. Rogers remained at the 4-Rs (Rogers' Rogue River Ranch) until 1990, when she sold the property and moved to nearby Medford, Oregon. She became the highest-paid performer in the history of the West End up to that time. And featured a royal command performance for Queen Elizabeth II Ginger and Pepper '' to Ginger at,! 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