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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.
No dance sequence follows, which was unusual for the Astaire-Rogers numbers. Astaire and Rogers did dance to it later in their last movie The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) in which they played a married couple with marital issues. The song, in the context of Shall We Dance, notes some of the things that Peter (Astaire) will miss about Linda ...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's first movie together was Flying Down to Rio.. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, 9 being released by RKO Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and 1, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1949, their only Technicolor film.
The "gold diggers" are four aspiring actresses: Polly (Ruby Keeler), an ingenue; Carol (Joan Blondell), a torch singer; Trixie (Aline MacMahon), a comedian; and Fay (Ginger Rogers), a glamour puss. The film was made in 1933, during the Great Depression, and contains numerous direct references to it.
Social outcasts Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers) and Sgt. Zachary Morgan (Joseph Cotten) meet while seated across from each other on a train bound for Pinehill.Zach, a victim of PTSD, then termed shell shock, has just been granted a ten-day leave from a military hospital to try to readjust to daily life.
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 Continental" is a dance to a song written by Con Conrad with lyrics by Herb Magidson, [1] and was introduced by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in the 1934 film The Gay Divorcee. "The Continental" was the first song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In the film it was sung by Ginger Rogers, Erik Rhodes and Lillian Miles. [1] [2]
Ginger Rogers, Independence: Probably best known for dancing roles opposite Fred Astaire, but also the best actress Oscar winner for “Kitty Foyle” in 1941. (If you can’t see the poll, click ...