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Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Kitty Foyle (1940), and performed during the 1930s in RKO's musical films with Fred Astaire.
The official Ginger Rogers website credits Thaves and uses his original line. Often the quote is incorrectly attributed to Faith Whittlesey . [ 3 ] Sometimes the quote is attributed to Ann Richards , who popularized the line in her 1988 Democratic National Convention speech, paraphrasing it as: "But if you give us a chance, we can perform.
Rogers had long been keen to pursue more dramatic roles, which she successfully managed after the end of her collaboration with Astaire. At the 1941 Academy Awards ceremony, Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle [14] and by the mid-1940s she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, although her career waned post-war.
Here are the best Happy Labor Day quotes. Related: 125 Labor Day Weekend Instagram Captions To Let the Good Times Roll. ... — Ginger Rogers. 21. "Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without ...
Whether it was on your TV screen or in front of a room full of U.S. lawmakers, Fred Rogers, who passed in 2003, always had a way with words. In his show, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, the gentle ...
You Said a Mouthful is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Robert Lord and Bolton Mallory. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Preston Foster, Allen Hoskins, Harry Gribbon, Edwin Maxwell and Sheila Terry.
1939: Bachelor Mother. In this holiday-set rom-com, Ginger Rogers plays a lonely department-store salesgirl who finds a baby on a doorstep.But everybody seems to think the baby is hers, and before ...
The Major and the Minor is a 1942 American romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland.It was the first American film directed by Billy Wilder. [2] The screenplay credited to Wilder and Charles Brackett is "suggested by" the 1923 play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter, based on the 1921 Saturday Evening Post story "Sunny Goes Home" by Fannie Kilbourne.