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
Great Performances
The Love Boat
Tony Awards
The Merv Griffin Show
The Jack Benny Program
Hotel
The Dick Cavett Show
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
Here's Lucy
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Oscars
Omnibus
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Black Widow
Cinderella
Vacation Playhouse
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Storm Warning
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Chance at Heaven
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
The Groom Wore Spurs
The First Traveling Saleslady
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
I'll Be Seeing You
Tales of Manhattan
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Primrose Path
Star of Midnight
Shall We Dance
Glitter
Monkey Business
Hooray for Hollywood
The Barkleys of Broadway
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Talking Pictures
George White's Scandals
Carefree
A Night in a Dormitory
Queen High
Lady in the Dark
The Tip-Off
Heartbeat
Magnificent Doll
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
The Confession
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
The Thirteenth Guest
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Roberta
Flying Down to Rio
Harlow
Bachelor Mother
Beautiful Stranger
We're Not Married!
Teenage Rebel
42nd Street
Honor Among Lovers
The Tenderfoot
Stage Door
Dreamboat
Change of Heart
Tender Comrade
Having Wonderful Time
Broadway Bad
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Tight Spot
Hollywood on Parade
The Gay Divorcee
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
In Person
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
Night of 100 Stars
Sitting Pretty
Rafter Romance
Don't Bet on Love
The Major and the Minor
Kitty Foyle
Follow the Fleet
Hollywood Newsreel
Young Man of Manhattan
Carnival Boat
That's Dancing!
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Perfect Strangers
Gold Diggers of 1933
Finishing School
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Follow the Leader
Fifth Avenue Girl
A Shriek in the Night
Professional Sweetheart
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
You Said a Mouthful
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Lucky Partners
That's Entertainment, Part II
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
Romance in Manhattan
Upperworld
Swing Time
Top Hat
Vivacious Lady
It Had to Be You
Forever Female
That's Entertainment!
Show-Business at War
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
Night of 100 Stars II
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
That's Entertainment! III
Roxie Hart
Hat Check Girl
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
Suicide Fleet
Tom, Dick and Harry
Week-End at the Waldorf
The Sap from Syracuse
Campus Sweethearts
Complicated Women
Fred Astaire donne le 'la'
Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm
Office Blues
A Day of a Man of Affairs
"All -Singing All-Dancing" Before And After
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
Sem Título #1: Dance of Leitfossil
Astaire and Rogers Sing the Great American Songbook
