Ginger Rogers
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
140
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 Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Love Boat
Great Performances
The Dick Cavett Show
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
The Merv Griffin Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show
Hotel
The Oscars
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Jack Benny Program
Omnibus
Here's Lucy
The Ed Sullivan Show
Tight Spot
Roberta
Bachelor Mother
42nd Street
The Kennedy Center Honors
Shall We Dance
Broadway Bad
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Beautiful Stranger
Teenage Rebel
Quick, Let's Get Married
Professional Sweetheart
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Sitting Pretty
Having Wonderful Time
Vivacious Lady
Hollywood Newsreel
Roxie Hart
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Fifth Avenue Girl
Chance at Heaven
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Star of Midnight
Kitty Foyle
In Person
The Tip-Off
Upperworld
Vacation Playhouse
The Gay Divorcee
That's Dancing!
Carnival Boat
That's Entertainment! III
The Hollywood Palace
Hat Check Girl
Dreamboat
Rafter Romance
Night of 100 Stars
Talking Pictures
Tender Comrade
That's Entertainment!
Cinderella
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Glitter
Monkey Business
Top Hat
Stage Door
Night of 100 Stars II
The Major and the Minor
Swing Time
The Thirteenth Guest
Black Widow
Tales of Manhattan
Storm Warning
Gold Diggers of 1933
Campus Sweethearts
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Carefree
We're Not Married!
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Office Blues
Mondo Hollywood
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
Forever Female
Romance in Manhattan
It Had to Be You
Change of Heart
I'll Be Seeing You
Follow the Fleet
Lady in the Dark
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Finishing School
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Perfect Strangers
Magnificent Doll
The first traveling saleslady
Lucky Partners
Heartbeat
Primrose Path
Suicide Fleet
The Barkleys of Broadway
Going Hollywood: The '30s
That's Entertainment, Part II
Week-End at the Waldorf
Flying Down to Rio
Hollywood '84
You Said a Mouthful
George White's Scandals
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Complicated Women
Tom, Dick and Harry
Hollywood on Parade
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Follow the Leader
The Tenderfoot
Harlow
Show-Business at War
The Groom Wore Spurs
Hooray for Hollywood
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Queen High
Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm
Honor Among Lovers
A Shriek in the Night
Don't Bet on Love
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Sem Título #1: Dance of Leitfossil
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
Young Man of Manhattan
A Night in a Dormitory
The Sap from Syracuse
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
Fred Astaire donne le 'la'
"All -Singing All-Dancing" Before And After
Astaire and Rogers Sing the Great American Songbook
A Day of a Man of Affairs
