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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers 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. Her career continued on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
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entertainment · American actress, singer, and dancer (1911–1995) · film actor · playwright · dancer · stage actor · television actor · singer · writer · actor · musician · also Ginger Rogers, Rogers
Born 16 July 1911 · Died 25 April 1995 · Q95089
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2026· 3 entries
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2016· 1 entry
By Three Trails Cottages, which restored, then transformed it into a museum dedicated to Ginger Rogers and her mother Lela
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Manhattan Melodies Songs of New York”.
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2001· 1 entry
Starring Donna McKechnie and Nili Bassman and was choreographed by Randy Skinner
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire: Volume 2”.
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1999· 1 entry
Ranks number 14 on the AFI's 100 Years
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers at RKO”.
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1997· 1 entry
And posthumously renamed in her honor as the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater
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1995· 4 entries
Died 1995-04-25.
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When she received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award
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Released album “Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire, Volume 1: The Gay Divorcee / Top Hat”.
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Released album “Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Volume 3: Shall We Dance / Carefree”.
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1992· 1 entry
Rogers was recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “A Fine Romance”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Fred & Ginger: The Story”.
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1986· 1 entry
Shortly before his death, Astaire remarked, "All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn't do it, but of course they could
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1985· 2 entries
Rogers fulfilled a long-standing wish to direct when she directed the musical Babes in Arms off-Broadway in Tarrytown, New York, at 74 years old
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Of an off-Broadway production of Babes in Arms
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award presented by National Cartoonists Society (1980).
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1971· 1 entry
In which Rogers danced the Charleston for the first time in many years
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1969· 1 entry
Had the lead role in another long-running popular production, Mame, from the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End of Lon
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1965· 1 entry
Playing Dolly Levi in the long-running Hello, Dolly
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1961· 1 entry
And divorced in 1970, after his bouts with alcohol and the financial collapse of their joint film production company in Jamaica
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1952· 1 entry
Rogers starred in two comedies featuring Marilyn Monroe, Monkey Business with Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hawks, and We're Not Married
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1950· 1 entry
And they were copresenters of individual Academy Awards in 1967, during which they elicited a standing ovation when they came on stage in an impromptu dance
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1949· 2 entries
In the commercially successful The Barkleys of Broadway
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When Judy Garland was unable to appear in the role that was to have reunited her with her Easter Parade co-star
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Kitty Foyle (1941).
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Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in 1940's Kitty Foyle
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1939· 1 entry
Rogers starred in "Single Party Going East", an episode of Silver Theater on CBS radio
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1936· 1 entry
And divorced 4 years later in March 1940
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1934· 1 entry
Rogers sued Sylvia of Hollywood for $100K for defamation
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1932· 2 entries
But they ended the relationship and remained friends until his death in 1987
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And was named one of 15 WAMPAS Baby Stars
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1930· 1 entry
Paramount Pictures signed her to a seven-year contract
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1929· 1 entry
Rogers married for the first time at age 17 to her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper)
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1926· 1 entry
The group performed at an 18-month-old theater called The Craterian in Medford, Oregon
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1925· 2 entries
The 14-year-old entered and won a Charleston dance contest; the prize allowed her to tour as Ginger Rogers and the Redheads for six months on the Orpheum Circuit
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Won a Charleston dance contest that helped her launch a successful vaudeville career
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1915· 1 entry
Was left with her grandparents, who lived in nearby Kansas City, while her mother made a trip to Hollywood in an effort to get an essay she had written made into a film
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1911· 2 entries
In Independence, Missouri, the only child of Lela Emogene Owens, a newspaper reporter, and William Eddins McMath, an electrical engineer
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Born 1911-07-16.
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