Overview
Born: July 16, 1911 in Independence, Missouri, USA
Died: April 25, 1995 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA (congestive heart failure)
Birth Name: Virginia Katherine McMath
Nickname: Feathers
Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Ginger Rogers was conceived Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911. Her mom, known as Lelee, went to Independence to have Ginger away from her significant other. She had a child before in their marriage and he permitted the specialist to utilize forceps and the child passed on. She was seized by her dad a few times until her mom prosecuted him. Ginger's mom left her youngster being taken care of by her folks while she went looking for a task as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and later to New York City. Mrs. McMath ended up with a pay sufficient to where she could send for Ginger. Lelee turned into a Marine in 1918 and was in the exposure division and Ginger returned to her grandparents in Missouri. During this time her mom met John Rogers. In the wake of leaving the Marines they wedded in May, 1920 in Liberty, Missouri. He was moved to Dallas and Ginger (who regarded him as a dad) went as well. Ginger won a Charleston challenge in 1925 (age 14) and a multi week contract on the Interstate circuit. She additionally showed up in vaudeville acts which she did until she was 17 with her mom close by to direct her. Presently she had found genuine acting. She wedded in March, 1929, and following a while acknowledged she had committed an error. She procured a specialist and she did a few short movies. She went to New York where she showed up in the Broadway creation of "Maximum velocity" which appeared Christmas Day, 1929. Her first film was in 1929 in A Night in a Dormitory (1930). It was a piece part, however it was a beginning. Soon thereafter, Ginger showed up, momentarily in two additional movies, A Day of a Man of Affairs (1929) and Campus Sweethearts (1930). For some time she did the two films and theater. The next year she started to improve parts in movies like Office Blues (1930) and Looking for Trouble (1931). Yet, the film that fascinated her to general society was Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). She didn't have front and center attention yet her magnificence and voice was to the point of having the public need more. One melody she advocated in the film was the now renowned, "We're in the Money". Additionally in 1933 she was in 42nd Street (1933). She recommended utilizing a monocle and this likewise separate her. In 1934, she featured with Dick Powell in Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934). It was a generally welcomed film about the prominence of radio. Ginger's genuine fame happened when she was collaborated with Fred Astaire where they were one of the most amazing true to life couples ever to hit the cinema. This is the place where she accomplished genuine fame. They were first matched in 1933's Flying Down to Rio (1933) and later in 1935's Roberta (1935) and Top Hat (1935). Ginger additionally showed up in a few awesome comedies like Bachelor Mother (1939) and Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) both in 1939. Likewise that year she showed up with Astaire in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). The film brought in cash however was not anyplace fruitful as they had trusted. After that studio chiefs at RKO needed Ginger to strike out all alone. She made a few emotional pictures yet it was 1940's Kitty Foyle (1940) that permitted her to sparkle. Playing a young woman from the bad part of town, she played the lead job well, so well indeed, that she won an Academy Award for her depiction. Ginger followed that venture with the great satire, Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) the next year. It's a story where she needs to pick which of three men she needs to wed. Through the remainder of the 1940s and mid 1950s she kept on making films however not close to the type before World War II. After Oh, Men! Gracious, Women! (1957) in 1957, Ginger didn't show up on the cinema for quite a long time. By 1965, she had showed up once and for all in Harlow (1965). A while later, she showed up on Broadway and other stage plays going in Europe, the U.S. also Canada. After 1984, she resigned and composed a personal history in 1991 named, "Ginger, My Story". On April 25, 1995, Ginger passed on from normal causes in Rancho Mirage, California. She was 83.
Girl of Lela E. Rogers.
Was a Christian Scientist.
Was given the name "Ginger" by her little cousin who couldn't articulate "Virginia" accurately.
Carried her first cousin Helen Nichols to Hollywood, renamed her Phyllis Fraser, and directed her through a couple of movies. Phyllis Fraser wedded and afterward became known as Phyllis Fraser.
Buried at Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, California, USA, a similar graveyard as long-lasting moving/acting accomplice Fred Astaire is found.
Kind of cousin of Rita Hayworth. Rogers' auntie wedded Hayworth's uncle.
She didn't drink liquor and had her own special frozen yogurt soft drink wellspring.
Guided her first stage melodic, "Darlings In Arms", at age 74.
Was design specialist for the J.C. Penney chain from 1972-1975.
A sharp craftsman, Rogers did numerous artistic creations, molds and portrays in her available energy, yet would never force herself to sell any of them.
Was Hollywood's most generously compensated star of 1942.
Creator Graham Greene generally said he would have enjoyed Rogers to assume the part of Aunt Augusta in the film form of his book "Goes With My Aunt". At the point when the film Travels with My Aunt (1972) was made in 1972, the job was played by Maggie Smith.
The notable statement regularly ascribed to her - "My first picture was [Kitty Foyle (1940)]. It was my mom [Lela E. Rogers] who made that large number of movies with Fred Astaire" - was really created for a 1966 article in "Movies In Review".
Continuously the outside energetic kind, she was a close top dog tennis player, a topline shot and cherished going fishing.
She disclosed her last debut on March 18, 1995 (only five weeks before her demise) when she got the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award.
Was severely impacted by disease in her last a very long time in the wake of experiencing two strokes that had left her wheelchair-bound and apparently overweight, while her voice had turned into a contracted grate.
Connected with Random House distributer and What's My Line? (1950) specialist Bennett Cerf through marriage; Cerf wedded Rogers' cousin Phyllis Fraser.
Was approached to supplant Judy Garland in both Harlow (1965) and Valley of the Dolls (1967). Rogers turned down 'Valley of the Dolls' since she abhorred the content; she did, be that as it may, acknowledge 'Harlow'.
First cousin, once eliminated, of Christopher Cerf and Jonathan Cerf.
Was a deep rooted Republican.
Turned down lead jobs in To Each His Own (1946) and The Snake Pit (1948). Both of these jobs proceeded to be played to extraordinary approval by Olivia de Havilland.
Her initially collaborating with Fred Astaire, Flying Down to Rio (1933), was her twentieth film appearance however just Astaire's second.
In a 1991 TV meet, when inquired as to why the Fred Astaire/Rogers association wasn't known as "Ginger and Fred" rather than "Fred and Ginger" (as Rogers had been in films longer), she answered, "It's a man's reality".
Her attached to-the-hip relationship with her mom, Lela E. Rogers, demonstrated everlasting. They're covered one next to the other at Oakwood Memorial Park. The grave of Ginger's screen accomplice, Fred Astaire, is simply yards away.
Was named #14 entertainer on the American Film Institute's rundown of 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
Is one of the numerous celebrities referenced in Madonna's tune "Vogue".
She and Fred Astaire acted in 10 motion pictures 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).
A far off cousin of Lucille Ball, as per Lucie Arnaz.
She was of Scottish, Welsh, English, and Irish lineage.
During the last long stretches of her life, she resigned in Oregon and purchased a farm in the Medford region since she preferred the environment. She gave cash to the local area and supported the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in midtown Medford, which was named after her.
In Italy, the majority of her movies were named by either Lydia Simoneschi or Wanda Tettoni. She was at times named by Andreina Pagnani, Dhia Cristiani, Rosetta Calavetta, and Giovanna Scotto.
Has a road named after her in Rancho Mirage, California, her last winter home. Ginger Rogers Road is situated in the Mission Hills Golf Course. It crosses Bob Hope Drive, between Gerald Ford Drive and Dinah Shore Drive and two squares from Frank Sinatra Drive.
She was a moderate Republican, a glad individual from the Daughters of the American Revolution, a Christian Scientist and a vocal ally of the Hollywood boycott.
Compensation for 1938: $219,500 (adapted to 2017 expansion: roughly $3.8 million).
One of the big names whose image Anne Frank put on the mass of her room in the "Secret Annex" while secluded from everything during the Nazi control of Amsterdam, Holland.
Her extraordinary incredible granddad was a specialist who found quinine, a treatment for jungle fever.
For the "Up close" number in Top Hat (1935), she needed to wear an intricate blue dress vigorously decked out with ostrich feathers. At the point when chief Mark Sandrich and Fred Astaire saw the dress, they realized it would be unreasonable for the dance. Sandrich proposed that Rogers wear the white outfit she had worn performing "Night and Day" in The Gay Divorcee (1934). Rogers strolled off the set, at last returning when Sandrich consented to let her wear the culpable blue dress. As there was no an ideal opportunity for practices, she wore the blue padded dress interestingly during recording of the "Up close" number, and as Astaire and Sandrich had dreaded, feathers got coming going the dress. Astaire later guaranteed it resembled "a chicken being assaulted by a coyote". In the last film, a few wanderer plumes should be visible floating off it. To fix up the crack between them, Astaire gave Rogers an appeal of a gold plume to add to her appeal arm band. This was the beginning of Rogers' moniker "Quills". The shedding feathers episode was reproduced to silly outcomes in a scene from Easter Parade (1948) in which Astaire hit the dance floor with an awkward, entertaining artist played by Judy Garland.
Turned down Donna Reed's job in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
She previously presented the melody "The Continental" in The Gay Divorcee (1934) and it proceeded to be the principal tune that won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Supplanted Judy Garland in the film The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) after Garland was suspended from MGM because of her lateness.
Was offered the piece of Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940), yet she turned it down. Rosalind Russell was projected all things considered.
Accepted into the Hall of Famous Missourians in 2009.
Was old buddies with entertainer Maureen O'Hara since the last part of the 1930s.
At the point when Rogers got a Kennedy Center Honor in 1992, Robyn Smith, widow of Fred Astaire, kept generally privileges to clasps of Rogers' scenes with Astaire, requesting installment. The Kennedy Center declined and Rogers accepted her distinction without the review show.
Every last bit of her five relationships endured under 10 years. Her longest marriage was her last, to William Marshall, which endured eight years. She never had youngsters.
Rogers holds the record for entertainers at New York's renowned Radio City Music Hall with 23 movies for an aggregate of 55 weeks.
As per the 1974 book "Holly-Would", Rogers was shown the Charleston by Eddie Foy Jr. what's more went on the success the title of Texas when she was just 15.
Was the sixteenth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Kitty Foyle (1940) at The thirteenth Academy Awards on February 27, 1941.
Fred Astaire trusted to Raymond Rohauer, guardian of New York Gallery of Modern Art, "Ginger was splendidly powerful. She made all that turn out great for her. All things considered she made things exceptionally fine for the two of us and she merits a large portion of the recognition for our prosperity".
Made the front of Life magazine multiple times: August 22, 1938, December 9, 1940, March 2, 1942, and September 5, 1951.
In 1976, when Fred Astaire was asked by British TV questioner Michael Parkinson on Parkinson (1971) who his beloved moving accomplice was, Astaire replied, "Excuse me, I should say Ginger was positively the one. You know the best accomplice I at any point had. Everybody knows. That was a totally separate thing what we did...I simply need to honor Ginger since we did as such many pictures together and accept me it was a worth to have that girl...she had it. She was simply incredible!".
In 1986, Fred Astaire reviewed, "Every one of the young ladies I at any point hit the dance floor with figured they couldn't make it happen. So they cried all of the time. All aside from Ginger. No, no, Ginger won't ever cry".
She turned down Barbara Stanwyck's job in Ball of Fire (1941).
Is one of 12 entertainers who won the Best Actress Oscar for playing a person who is pregnant eventually during the film; hers being for Kitty Foyle (1940). The others are Helen Hayes for The Lullaby (1931), Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Olivia de Havilland for To Each His Own (1946), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (1955), Julie Christie for Darling (1965), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996).
Was hitched to third spouse, Jack Briggs, at the First Methodist Church in Pasadena, California. Reverend Edwin Day played out the function.
Showed up in five Oscar Best Picture chosen people: 42nd Street (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), Stage Door (1937) and Kitty Foyle (1940).
A thing in a March 1937 film industry Trade Paper reported that Ginger Rogers had found and was supporting a hopeful entertainer named Kimbol Grant. There are no realized film credits for this name.
At 19 years old she was picked to present "Embraceable You" and "However Not For Me" is George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy on Broadway in which Ethel Merman presented "I Got Rhythm.".
She has showed up in four movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, all things considered or stylishly" critical: 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936).
WAMPAS Baby Star in 1932.
Her picture shows up on the front of the music CD Electro Swing III.
She lived in Independence, Missouri from 1917-1922 around 8 miles from an adolescent Joan Crawford who lived in the upper east piece of Kansas City, Missouri. Between them was the home of Harry S. Truman a couple of years after the fact.
She was the star of Billy Wilder's first American executive component The Major and the Minor (1942). Incidentally, one of the co-stars of Wilder's nearby subsequent component, Five Graves to Cairo (1943), was Peter van Eyck, who was brought into the world around the same time Rogers.
Left her Academy Award statuette to her own collaborator Roberta Olden.
She is referred to in The Simpsons episode "Bart of War" (Season 14, Episode 21).
List of Ganger Rogers Movies
- Night In A Dormitory 1929
- Office Blues 1930
- Young Man of Manhattan 1930
- Queen High 1930
- The Sap from Syracuse 1930
- Follow the Leader 1930
- Honor Among Lovers 1931
- The Tip-Off 1931
- Suicide Fleet 1931
- Carnival Boat 1932
- The Tenderfoot 1932
- The Thirteenth Guest 1932
- Hat Check Girl 1932
- You Said a Mouthful 1932
- 42nd Street 1933
- Broadway Bad 1933
- Gold Diggers of 1933
- Professional Sweetheart 1933
- A Shriek in the Night 1933
- Don't Bet on Love 1933
- Sitting Pretty 1933
- Finishing School 1934
- Twenty Million Sweethearts 1934
- The Gay Divorcee 1934
- Romance in Manhattan 1935
- Roberta 1935
- Star of Midnight 1935
- Top Hat 1935
- In Person 1935
- Follow the Fleet 1936
- Swing Time 1936
- Shall We Dance 1937
- Stage Door 1937
- Having Wonderful Time 1938
- Vivacious Lady 1938
- Carefree 1938
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 1939
- Bachelor Mother 1939
- Fifth Avenue Girl 1939
- Primrose Path 1940
- Lucky Partners 1940
- Kitty Foyle 1940
- Tom, Dick and Harry 1941
- Roxie Hart 1942
- Tales of Manhattan 1942
- The Major and the Minor 1942
- Once Upon a Honeymoon 1942
- Tender Comrade 1943
- Lady in the Dark 1944
- I'll Be Seeing You 1944
- Week-End at the Waldorf 1945
- Heartbeat 1946 & Many more.....
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