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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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