Ginger Rogers

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AKA: Virginia Katherine McMath
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 07/16/1911
Birthplace: Independence, Missouri, USA
Death Date: 04/25/1995

biography

Prodded by her prototypical "stage mother" Lela, Ginger Rogers made her performing debut as a dancer at the age of 14 and became a regular on the vaudeville circuit after winning a statewide Charleston contest in Texas. She achieved her breakthrough in 1929-30 when she was prominently cast as second lead in the Broadway musical, "Top Speed" (1929, singing "Hot and Bothered") and then as female lead in the Gershwins' landmark "Girl Crazy" (1930), in which she introduced the song standards "Embraceable You" and "But Not for Me". Having made a few film shorts, she began landing feature film roles Continued

Credits

Sherry Conley
1955
Mama Jean
Edwina Fulton
Jean Maitland
Mildred Turner
Dale Tremont
Mme Rinaldi
Johnny Victor
Beatrice Page
Nancy Fallon
Lottie

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Subject of a custody battle between parents when they separated; at one point the infant Rogers was kidnapped by her father
1917 
Offered a part in a Fox film while mother was working as a scriptwriter; mother refused to let her work after the first day
 
Moved with family to Forth Worth, Texas while in high school; took part in school dramatics and took dancing lessons
1925 
Briefly worked as substitute dancer for Eddie Foy in vaudeville
1926 
Began working regularly on the vaudeville circuit: billed as "Ginger and Her Redheads", toured Oklahoma and Texas with two other dancers, after winning a statewide Charleston contest in Texas; the two "redheads" who performed with her had finished second and third in the contest and were engaged by Rogers' mother; later did a solo act
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