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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.
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.
In April 1947 Columbia announced that Ginger Rogers would star in the movie then called I Found a Dream. The studio broke with convention and had two men direct. [2] In her autobiography Ginger: My Story, Rogers wrote about the film: [3] "[It was] a very amusing script about a girl who backs out of four marriages. In the end she finds the ...
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.
Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres were married for seven years following this film. Sitting Pretty: 1933: Harry Joe Brown: Jack Oakie, Jack Haley: Flying Down to Rio: 1933: Thornton Freeland: Dolores del Río, Gene Raymond, Fred Astaire: The first Astaire–Rogers pairing. [1] This is the only movie where Rogers is billed above Astaire. Chance at ...
Chance at Heaven is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Julien Josephson and Sarah Y. Mason based on a 1932 short story of the same name by Vina Delmar.
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.
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 American RKO musical comedy film with a nautical theme starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their fifth collaboration as dance partners. It also features Randolph Scott , Harriet Hilliard , and Astrid Allwyn , with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin .