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  Ginger Rogers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, the daughter of Eddins McMath, of Scottish ancestry and Lela Owens McMath, of Welsh ancestry.
Rogers continued to enjoy considerable success during the early 1940's and was RKO's hottest property during this period, however, by the end of this decade her film career was in decline.
Ginger Rogers died on April 25, 1995, of complications from diabetes, at the age of 83, in Rancho Mirage, California, and was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California.
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 Ginger Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ginger appeared in several episodes to be the desire of The Skipper (Alan Hale, Jr.
Ginger's fellow single female on the island and hence companion and rival was Mary Ann Summers (Dawn Wells), a simple, innocent farm girl from Kansas who was in many ways her opposite.
The question "Ginger or Mary Ann?" is regarded to be a classic pop-psychological question when given to American men of a certain age as an insight into their characters, or at least their desires as regarding certain female stereotypes.
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 Ginger Rogers
Rogers proved to be the perfect partner for Astaire, and their films were a popular combination of light comedy, marvelous music and elegant dance numbers.
Rogers headed in a different direction in "Kitty Foyle" (1940), in which she starred as an engaged working girl who falls in love with a wealthy married man, and must wrestle with her conscience to decide what she should do.
Rogers followed that film with a comedic look at the same theme in "Tom, Dick and Harry" (1941), in which she is pursued by three very different men, and imagines what life would be like with each of them.
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 Ginger Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
She was a conservative Republican politically and lived for much of life with her mother Lela Owens McMath (1891-1977) a Christian Scientist who was a reporter scriptwriter movie producer one of the women to enlist in the Marine Corps a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance the Preservation of American Ideals.
Ginger Rogers died in 1995 and was in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth California.
"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire and she did it backwards and in heels." Faith Whittlesey former US ambassador to Responsibility for this quote also has been to a 1982 "Frank and Ernest" cartoon.
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 Ginger Rogers at Classic Actresses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath on July 16, 1911, in Independence, Missouri.
Ginger's mother, Lela, encouraged her to go into show business and Ginger started dancing professionally when she was a teenager.
Ginger's last film was the 1965 drama Harlow, which was based on the life of Jean Harlow.
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 Ginger Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Ginger Rogers was a dancer and actress who was born in Independence Missouri.
Ginger Rogers was born July 16, 1911 as Virginia Katherine McMath.
Ginger Rogers was fourteen years old when she first started acting.
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 Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was the dance partner of Fred Astaire who was a famous dancer and film star of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
A friend of Ginger Rogers once discussed the dance team in an interview and was asked about Astaire and the dance team.
She put the relationship in the proper perspective when she said that, "Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she had to do it in high heels and backwards." On reflection, it becomes clear that her task was much more difficult than his (not to belittle his role in the partnership).
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 MMI Tribute: Ginger Rogers
At her very best, Ginger Rogers made singing and dancing and acting seem like the easiest things in the world to do.
But Rogers - and mother Lela - were used to that from the early days when she used to enter and win Texas Charleston contests.
Together, Lela and Ginger were a formidable team for over 63 years, with Lela disarming the competition backstage and on the set and Ginger trouncing them soundly onstage and onscreen.
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 Ginger Rogers: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Bachelor mother (garson kanin; us, 1939) is a comedy film starring ginger rogers (in a non-dancing, non-singing role), david niven and charles...
Ginger Rogers died in 1995 and was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery quick summary:
Swing time is a 1936 musical film directed by george stevens, the sixth featuring the pair-up of fred astaire and ginger rogers....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/ginger_rogers.htm   (2419 words)

  
 Ginger Rogers News
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in Swing Time (1936).
Dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers brought magic to the movies, and their chemistry might be the hardest to define among all movie duos as well.
Ginger Rogers plays a down-on-her-luck girdle saleswoman who takes up the challenge of selling barbed wire to ranchers in the Wild...
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 Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers is a convict released from state penitentiary for a Christmas leave.
Ginger Rogers get her teenage daughter (Betty Lou Keim) back from her ex-husband when she remarries and must win her love.
Ginger Rogers, an actress living with Stanley Baker on the Riviera, becomes involved with Jacques Bergerac and learns he is a dangerous criminal.
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 Ginger Rogers at Hollywood Cult Movies
Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot repeat their roles from "The Thirteenth Guest" in this mystery comedy of reporters on the trail of a murderer.
Ginger Rogers won an Oscar (in her first dramatic role) as a Philadelphia working-class woman who marries into a well-to-do Main Line family, but seeks solace with an old flame when the marriage sours.
The broad and breezy Roaring '20s comedy that was later transformed into the musical "Chicago" stars Ginger Rogers in the title role of brash dance hall girl Roxie, who confesses to a murder committed by her no-good husband in the hope of giving her show career a boost.
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 Support Forums: Ginger Rogers ...
I know this was more Ginger than any of the other films she made, so it's interesting to see her play a role that was toned down a bit.
I love the line when Jimmy Stewart's fiancee tells Ginger that she ought to give her a piece of her mind and Ginger replys, "Oh, I couldn't take the last piece" which then results in one of the funniest and well known catfights in the movies.
I would love to see a Ginger Rogers Box set, particularly of her comedies but there are also some Dramas that would fit nicely.
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 Bright Lights Film Journal | Ginger Rogers
Ginger pops up again in a very brief three-minute skit, a gender-bending trifle called “The Girl Who Used To Be You,” with Jack Oakie in dubious drag.
Ginger appears briefly as “Any Time Annie” in 42nd Street (1932), probably the ultimate backstage musical, which I guess is not much of a compliment, because I found this flick a dog.
Ginger also has several serious catfights in the beginning of the film, and we definitely see more leg than in the pictures she did with Fred.
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 Ginger Rogers Photos - Ginger Rogers News - Ginger Rogers Information
The late Ginger Rogers is a true legend in her own time.
Ginger Rogers danced in movies with Fred Astaire for 10 years.
Ginger directed her first stage musical, Babes In Arms, at age 74.
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 Ginger Rogers pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
Her nickname, "Ginger," originated from her younger cousin Helen who pronounced "Virginia" as "Ginja." Family and friends continued to call her this, and later theatre men who understood the name to be "Ginger" billed her as such on their marquees.
She chose two red-headed Charleston dancers, and billed the act "Ginger and the Redheads." The performances continued well beyond their four-week engagement when Junior Orpheum sent the trio on an extensive tour across the western United States.
While Ginger is best remembered for her stage and screen performances, she was also an accomplished artist.
www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=936   (522 words)

  
 Ginger Rogers - MovieActors.com
Praising Ginger Rogers, a critic once said, "She did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards, and in high heels!"
Ginger Rogers played the heroine, who plays an innocent 15 year-old and winds up a successful businesswoman who has to choose between two men in Christopher Morley's popular story.
Ginger Rogers had some experinece on Broadway, in GIRL CRAZY, before arriving in Hollywood for her first film: MANHATTAN MARY.
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 Ginger Rogers - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Virginia Katherine McMath (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995), better known as Ginger Rogers, was an Americann actress and dancer.
This close mother-daughter relationship which might explain Ginger Rogers's disappointing marital history.
She married, firstly, on March 29, 1929, her dancing partner, Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper; they divorced in 1931, though separated soon after the wedding.
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 Rogers, Ginger - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Rogers, Ginger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
She worked from the 1930s to the 1950s, often starring with Fred Astaire in such films as Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936).
Rogers first appeared with Astaire when both had secondary roles in Flying Down to Rio (1933).
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: ROGERS, GINGER
Ginger Rogers, motion picture actress and dancer, was born Virginia Katherine McMath on July 16, 1911, in Independence, Missouri, to Lela Emogene Owens and Eddins McMath.
Rogers lived in Kansas City, Missouri, with her mother and grandparents until 1922, when she moved to Fort Worth with her mother and adoptive father, John Logan Rogers.
Despite her formidable acting skills, Rogers is best remembered as the dancing partner of Fred Astaire in nine films, including Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Swing Time (1936), and Top Hat (1935), considered by many critics to be some of the finest films made during the Hollywood studio system era.
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 Denny Jackson's Ginger Rogers Page
It wasn't long before Ginger's parents separated and she and her mother moved into a hotel.
Ginger's mother left her child in the care of her parents while she went in search of a job as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and later to New York City.
Ginger's real stardom occurred when she was teamed with Fred Astaire where they were one of the best cinematic couples ever to hit the silver screen.
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 WIC Biography - Ginger Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Miss Rogers was an accomplished artist and exceled at both sculpting and painting.
There are not enough words to adequately describe the joy Ginger Rogers had brought to the world.
There is hardly anyone over the age of 20, in any country of the world, who has not been charmed, dazzled and captivated by the extraordinary and diverse talents of this enchanting woman.
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 Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : Ginger Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Ginger Rogers did it all, she was a dancer and actress a singer, now a days you are either one or the other even today she still touches the lives of many people both young and old.
Ginger was talented and beautiful, I just love to watch her and Fred dance and sing together, what wonderful chemistry they had.
Ginger Rogers stayed true to herself and her beliefs, always giving 100% and just a wonderful actress to watch, be it a musical, a comedy, or a drama.
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 Film/Classic: Swing Time with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The cynical line on Astaire and Rogers was, 'She gave him sex; he gave her class.' Actually they both had class, and sex was never the point.
Astaire was a skinny wimp of a man but he possessed incredible energy and his legendary and electric screen performances were usually shot in one, continuous take although they often required dozens of rehearsals.
This was the sixth film in which Astaire and Ginger Rogers starred.
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 A Tribute to Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was born on July 16, 1911 in Independence, Missouri, as Virginia Katherine MacMath.
She got the name "Ginger" when her young cousin couldn't say "Virginia." She wanted to become an actress from the time she was a child, and using her stepfather's last name, appeared in vaudeville shows and later on Broadway, where she met Fred Astaire.
Ginger was married five times, to Edward Culpepper, Lew Ayres, Jack Briggs, Jacques Bergerac, and finally William Marshall.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa071501a.htm   (416 words)

  
 gingersGingerRogersHomepage
Ginger Rogers was one of our national treasures.
The "flicker show" he was allowed to see was one of Fred and Ginger's films.
I can remember being fondly called "Ginger Rogers" when I was a little girl.
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 History of Musical Film 1930s: Part III - Astaire & Rogers
A popular cliché suggests that "Fred gave Ginger class, while she gave him sex appeal." While there may be some truth in this, the fact is that both Astaire and Rogers already had each of those qualities.
When Rogers died, every newspaper and television newscast in the world carried pictures of her – dancing with Astaire.
The image of Astaire and Rogers dancing their hearts out is one of the definitive cultural icons of the 20th Century, a reminder that a violent age also had a sense of music, fun, and sheer style that no calamity could snuff out.
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With a little music and a pair of dance shoes, students can become collegiate versions of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
He studied the 1930s films of dance team Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
William Keighley directed this faithful if weirdly expurgated version of the play, in which "a Joan Crawford fantasy" becomes "a Ginger Rogers fantasy," "a...
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