Ginger Rogers
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
139
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-07-16
Day of death
1995-04-25 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Independence, Missouri, USA
Ginger Rogers
Biography
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the twentieth century. During her long career, she made a total of 73 films and is noted for her role as Fred Astaire's partner in a series of ten musical films. She achieved great success in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle. 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 role as a supporting actress in 42nd Street. In the 1930s, Rogers' nine films with Fred Astaire gave RKO Pictures some of its biggest successes, most notably Top Hat and Swing Time. 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. Her performance in Kitty Foyle won her the Oscar for Best Actress. Rogers' popularity peaked by the end of the decade. She reunited with Astaire in 1949 in the commercially successful The Barkleys of Broadway. After an unsuccessful period in the 1950s, she returned to Broadway in 1965, playing 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. In 1992, Rogers was recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors. She died of a heart attack in 1995, at age 83. Rogers is associated with the phrase "backwards and in high heels", which is attributed to Bob Thaves' Frank and Ernest 1982 cartoon with the caption "Sure he [Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did...backwards and in high heels". This phrase is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Ann Richards, who used it in her keynote address to the 1988 Democratic National Convention. A Republican and a devout Christian Scientist, Rogers married five times with all of them ending in divorce, and having no children. During her long career, Rogers made 73 films, and her musical films with Astaire are credited with revolutionizing the genre. Rogers was a major movie star during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood and is often considered an American icon. She ranks number 14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of female stars of classic American cinema. Her autobiography Ginger: My Story was published in 1991.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
Tony Awards
Great Performances
Hotel
The Merv Griffin Show
The Dick Cavett Show
Omnibus
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
The Jack Benny Program
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Here's Lucy
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Cinderella
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
Harlow
Carefree
The Sap from Syracuse
Vacation Playhouse
42nd Street
Bachelor Mother
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Tight Spot
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Queen High
Perfect Strangers
Black Widow
Dreamboat
Broadway Bad
Tender Comrade
The Hollywood Palace
Teenage Rebel
Beautiful Stranger
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Heartbeat
Rafter Romance
Quick, Let's Get Married
Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm
Sitting Pretty
Swing Time
Professional Sweetheart
Kitty Foyle
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Talking Pictures
In Person
Shall We Dance
Roberta
Vivacious Lady
Magnificent Doll
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Flying Down to Rio
The First Traveling Saleslady
Follow the Fleet
Carnival Boat
Upperworld
The Groom Wore Spurs
We're Not Married!
Hollywood Newsreel
Lucky Partners
Glitter
Lady in the Dark
Star of Midnight
Primrose Path
That's Dancing!
Stage Door
The Major and the Minor
Hollywood on Parade
I'll Be Seeing You
Night of 100 Stars
"All -Singing All-Dancing" Before And After
Roxie Hart
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
George White's Scandals
The Barkleys of Broadway
Honor Among Lovers
Having Wonderful Time
That's Entertainment!
A Night in a Dormitory
Follow the Leader
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
Top Hat
Don't Bet on Love
Change of Heart
You Said a Mouthful
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Tales of Manhattan
Hooray for Hollywood
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Romance in Manhattan
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Storm Warning
Monkey Business
It Had to Be You
The Thirteenth Guest
That's Entertainment, Part II
Fifth Avenue Girl
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
That's Entertainment! III
Chance at Heaven
The Gay Divorcee
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Young Man of Manhattan
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
Gold Diggers of 1933
Office Blues
The Tip-Off
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
Show-Business at War
Hat Check Girl
Tom, Dick and Harry
Finishing School
Complicated Women
Night of 100 Stars II
Forever Female
The Tenderfoot
Suicide Fleet
A Shriek in the Night
Hollywood '84
Week-End at the Waldorf
Astaire and Rogers Sing the Great American Songbook
A Day of a Man of Affairs
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Campus Sweethearts
Fred Astaire donne le 'la'
Sem Título #1: Dance of Leitfossil
