
Ginger Rogers
Born July 16, 1911 · Independence, Missouri, USA
Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She had a prolific career in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the twentieth century. She made a total of 73 films, notably ten revolutionary musical films where she performed as Fred Astaire's partner. She also won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Kitty Foyle (1940). Rogers was a major movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and was ranked number 14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of female stars of classic American cinema. After winning a 1925 Charleston dance contest that launched a successful vaudeville career, she gained recognition as a Broadway actress for her stage debut in Girl Crazy. This led to a contract with Paramount Pictures, which ended after five films. Rogers had her first successful film roles in 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). Subsequently, Rogers' nine films with Fred Astaire gave RKO Pictures some of its biggest successes, most notably The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), and Swing Time (1936). But after two commercial failures with Astaire, she branched out into dramatic and comedy films. Her acting was well received by critics and audiences, and she became one of the biggest box-office draws and highest paid actresses of the 1940s. Rogers' popularity peaked by the end of the decade. She reunited with Astaire in The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), which was her last commercial success. Experiencing constant lack on success in the 1950s, she returned to Broadway the next decade when she played the lead role in Hello, Dolly!. More Broadway roles followed, along with her stage directorial debut in 1985 of an off-Broadway production of Babes in Arms. She also made television acting appearances until 1987. She died of a heart attack in 1995, at age 83.
Movies

Gold Diggers of 1933

Monkey Business

Flying Down to Rio

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

Night of 100 Stars

Top Hat

Night of 100 Stars II

We're Not Married!

That's Entertainment!

Vivacious Lady

Quick, Let's Get Married

That's Entertainment! III

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Major and the Minor

Cinderella

42nd Street

The Barkleys of Broadway

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

That's Dancing!
TV Shows

Great Performances

What's My Line?

The Dick Cavett Show

Tony Awards

Hotel

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Oscars

Omnibus

The Steve Allen Show

Here's Lucy

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Jack Benny Program

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The Hollywood Palace

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Talking Pictures

Glitter

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
More Movies

Kitty Foyle

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Stage Door

Swing Time

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Once Upon a Honeymoon

The Gay Divorcee

I'll Be Seeing You

Tom, Dick and Harry

Follow the Fleet

Roxie Hart

Oh, Men! Oh, Women!

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

It Had to Be You

Hollywood on Parade No. A-1

Week-End at the Waldorf

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Black Widow

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Primrose Path

Tales of Manhattan

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Bachelor Mother

Show-Business at War

Storm Warning

Professional Sweetheart

The First Traveling Saleslady

Lady in the Dark

Dreamboat

A Shriek in the Night

Fifth Avenue Girl

Magnificent Doll

Teenage Rebel

George White's Scandals

Shall We Dance

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

The Groom Wore Spurs

Tender Comrade

Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound

In Person

Brasileiros em Hollywood

Tight Spot

Change of Heart

The Thirteenth Guest

Complicated Women

Sem Título #1: Dance of Leitfossil

Don't Bet on Love

Perfect Strangers

Finishing School

You Said a Mouthful

The Casting Couch

Star of Midnight

Chance at Heaven

Rafter Romance

Carefree

Roberta

Honor Among Lovers

Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star

Mondo Hollywood

Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm

Young Man of Manhattan

Hollywood on Parade

Lucky Partners

Fred Astaire donne le 'la'

The Sap from Syracuse

Forever Female

Suicide Fleet

Harlow

Hooray for Hollywood

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

Upperworld

Heartbeat

Beautiful Stranger

Twenty Million Sweethearts

Having Wonderful Time

The Tip-Off

Astaire and Rogers Sing the Great American Songbook

Romance in Manhattan

"All -Singing All-Dancing" Before And After

Hat Check Girl

Broadway Bad

The Tenderfoot

A Night in a Dormitory

Follow the Leader

Sitting Pretty

Carnival Boat

Queen High




