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When the show closed she went to Hollywood and, after nearly 20 films, was paired with Fred Astaire in Flying Down to Rio. The pair was such a hit, even though they did not star in the movie, that they made eight more mostly stunning films together as headliners. Rogers also starred in several noteworthy comedies: Star of Midnight (1935) with William Powell, The Major and the Minor (1942) with Ray Milland, and Monkey Business (1952) with Cary Grant. Her dramatic roles were equally fine: Stage Door (1937), with an all-star cast; Kitty Foyle (1940), for which she won a Best Actress Oscar; and Weekend at the Waldorf (1945), a remake of Grand Hotel.
Rogers took on Broadway again, revitalizing Hello! Dolly in 1965 and taking Mame to London for a 14-month run in 1969. She was a frequent guest on television, an accomplished painter and sculptress, and an award winning tennis player and skeet shooter. Her inimitable “little girl” voice is remembered fondly (by those old enough to recall) in her early 1940’s recording of Alice in Wonderland. In 1992 she received the Kennedy Center award for lifetime achievements.
- Sandra Burlingame
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Ginger: My Story
It Books
Sheridan Morley
Shall We Dance: The Life of Ginger Rogers
St. Martins Press
Jocelyn Faris
Ginger Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography
Greenwood Press
Edward Gallafent
Astaire and Rogers
Columbia University Press
Marilyn Henry
Ginger Rogers Paper Dolls
Paper Studio Press
Homer Dickens
The Films of Ginger Rogers
Lyle Stuart
Lela E. Rogers
Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak: An Original Story Featuring Ginger Rogers Famous Motion-Picture Star as the Heroine
Whitman Pub. Co
George Baxt
The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Murder Case
St Martins Pr
Dick Richards
Ginger: salute to a star
Clifton Books
Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe
Monkey Business (1952)
DVD
Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Ann Miller
Stage Door (1937)
Dolores del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire
Flying Down to Rio
Turner Home Ent
John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Frank Conroy, Joan Crawford
Grand Hotel
Warner Home Video
Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm, Jo Van Fleet, Stuart Damon
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
Sony Pictures
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore
Top Hat
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland
The Major and the Minor (Universal Cinema Classics)
Universal Studios
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Astaire & Rogers Collection, Vol. 2 (Flying Down to Rio / The Gay Divorcee / Roberta / Carefree / The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle)
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Swing Time
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Tex Avery, Dick Nelson
Kitty Foyle
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
The Gay Divorcee
Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully
I'll Be Seeing You
MGM (Video & DVD)
Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley
Roberta
William Powell, Ginger Rogers
Star of Midnight (1935)
VHS
Ray Milland, Ginger Rogers
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Van Johnson, Edward Arnold, Walter Pidgeon, Keenan Wynn, Robert Benchley
Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
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