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class="vector-toc-link" href="#1940–1949:_Career_peak_and_reuniting_with_Astaire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>1940–1949: Career peak and reuniting with Astaire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1940–1949:_Career_peak_and_reuniting_with_Astaire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1950–1987:_Later_career" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1950–1987:_Later_career"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>1950–1987: Later career</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1950–1987:_Later_career-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Honors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Honors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Honors</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Honors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Personal life</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Personal life subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Marriages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Marriages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Marriages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Marriages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Friendships" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Friendships"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Friendships</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Friendships-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Interests" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Interests"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Interests</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Interests-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Legacy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Death" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Death"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Death</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Death-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Legacy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legacy_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Filmography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Filmography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Filmography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Filmography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="جنجر روجرز – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="جنجر روجرز" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="جینجر راجرز – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="جینجر راجرز" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9E%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8" title="জিঞ্জার রজার্স – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="জিঞ্জার রজার্স" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8D%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%81" title="Джынджэр Роджэрс – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Джынджэр Роджэрс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8D%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B7" title="Джынджэр Роджэрз – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Джынджэр Роджэрз" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%81" title="Джинджър Роджърс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Джинджър Роджърс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogersov%C3%A1" title="Ginger Rogersová – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Ginger Rogersová" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%81_%CE%A1%CF%8C%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%82" title="Τζίντζερ Ρότζερς – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τζίντζερ Ρότζερς" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="جینجر راجرز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جینجر راجرز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%84%EC%A0%80_%EB%A1%9C%EC%A0%80%EC%8A%A4" title="진저 로저스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="진저 로저스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%BB%D5%A5%D6%80_%D5%8C%D5%B8%D5%BB%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BD" title="Ջինջեր Ռոջերս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ջինջեր Ռոջերս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%27%D7%A8_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%92%27%D7%A8%D7%A1" title="ג'ינג'ר רוג'רס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'ינג'ר רוג'רס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AF%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%AF%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="ჯინჯერ როჯერსი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჯინჯერ როჯერსი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEind%C5%BEera_Rod%C5%BEersa" title="Džindžera Rodžersa – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Džindžera Rodžersa" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%9F%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Џинџер Роџерс – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Џинџер Роџерс" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%9E%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%87%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="ജിഞ്ചർ റോജേർസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ജിഞ്ചർ റോജേർസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AF%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%AF%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="ჯინჯერ როჯერსი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ჯინჯერ როჯერსი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%86%DA%86%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%86%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="چينچر روچرز – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="چينچر روچرز" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9" title="ジンジャー・ロジャース – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジンジャー・ロジャース" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Джинджер Роджерс – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Джинджер Роджерс" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%95%D8%B1_%DA%95%D8%A7%D8%AC%DB%95%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="جینجەر ڕاجەرز – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="جینجەر ڕاجەرز" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%9F%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Џинџер Роџерс – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Џинџер Роџерс" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%AD%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%8C" title="จิงเจอร์ รอเจอส์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="จิงเจอร์ รอเจอส์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D2%B7%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D2%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Ҷинҷер Роҷерс – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Ҷинҷер Роҷерс" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Джинджер Роджерс – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Джинджер Роджерс" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="جنجر راجرز – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="جنجر راجرز" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Ginger Rogers" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%B4%E5%90%89%C2%B7%E7%BD%97%E6%9D%B0%E6%96%AF" title="琴吉·罗杰斯 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="琴吉·罗杰斯" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yo mw-list-item"><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ginger_Rogers_-_Tender_Comrade.jpg/220px-Ginger_Rogers_-_Tender_Comrade.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ginger_Rogers_-_Tender_Comrade.jpg/330px-Ginger_Rogers_-_Tender_Comrade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ginger_Rogers_-_Tender_Comrade.jpg/440px-Ginger_Rogers_-_Tender_Comrade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1451" data-file-height="1911" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Rogers in 1943</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Virginia Katherine McMath</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1911-07-16</span>)</span>July 16, 1911<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Independence,_Missouri" title="Independence, Missouri">Independence, Missouri</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">April 25, 1995<span style="display:none">(1995-04-25)</span> (aged 83)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rancho_Mirage,_California" title="Rancho Mirage, California">Rancho Mirage, California</a>, U.S.</span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Oakwood_Memorial_Park_Cemetery" title="Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery">Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output 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Street</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Pepper" title="Jack Pepper">Jack Pepper</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1929; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1931)<wbr /></div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Lew_Ayres" title="Lew Ayres">Lew Ayres</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1934; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1940)<wbr /></div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Briggs_(actor)" title="Jack Briggs (actor)">Jack Briggs</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1943; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1949)<wbr /></div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Bergerac" title="Jacques Bergerac">Jacques Bergerac</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1953; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1957)<wbr /></div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/William_Marshall_(bandleader)" title="William Marshall (bandleader)">William Marshall</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1961; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1969)<wbr /></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lela_E._Rogers" title="Lela E. Rogers">Lela Rogers</a> (mother)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Phyllis_Fraser" title="Phyllis Fraser">Phyllis Fraser</a> (cousin)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Vinton_Hayworth" title="Vinton Hayworth">Vinton Hayworth</a> (uncle)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame" title="Hollywood Walk of Fame">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gingerrogers.com">gingerrogers<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ginger Rogers</b> (born <b>Virginia Katherine McMath</b>; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer and singer during the <a href="/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema" title="Classical Hollywood cinema">Golden Age</a> of Hollywood. She won an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Academy Award for Best Actress">Academy Award for Best Actress</a> for her starring role in <a href="/wiki/Kitty_Foyle_(film)" title="Kitty Foyle (film)"><i>Kitty Foyle</i></a> (1940), and performed during the 1930s in <a href="/wiki/RKO" class="mw-redirect" title="RKO">RKO</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Musical_film" title="Musical film">musical films</a> with <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a>. Her career continued on stage, radio and television throughout much of the 20th century. </p><p>Rogers was born in <a href="/wiki/Independence,_Missouri" title="Independence, Missouri">Independence, Missouri</a>, and raised in <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City</a>. She and her family moved to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas" title="Fort Worth, Texas">Fort Worth, Texas</a>, when she was nine years old. In 1925, she won a Charleston dance contest<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that helped her launch a successful <a href="/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> career. After that, she gained recognition as a <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> actress for her stage debut in <i><a href="/wiki/Girl_Crazy" title="Girl Crazy">Girl Crazy</a></i>. This led to a contract with <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>, which ended after five films. Rogers had her first successful film roles as a supporting actress in <i><a href="/wiki/42nd_Street_(film)" title="42nd Street (film)">42nd Street</a></i> (1933) and <i><a href="/wiki/Gold_Diggers_of_1933" title="Gold Diggers of 1933">Gold Diggers of 1933</a></i> (1933). </p><p>In the 1930s, Rogers's nine films with Fred Astaire are credited with revolutionizing the genre and gave <a href="/wiki/RKO_Pictures" title="RKO Pictures">RKO Pictures</a> some of its biggest successes: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gay_Divorcee" title="The Gay Divorcee">The Gay Divorcee</a></i> (1934), <i><a href="/wiki/Top_Hat" title="Top Hat">Top Hat</a></i> (1935) and <i><a href="/wiki/Swing_Time_(film)" title="Swing Time (film)">Swing Time</a></i> (1936). But after two commercial failures with Astaire, she turned her focus to dramatic and <a href="/wiki/Comedy_film" title="Comedy film">comedy films</a>. Her acting was well received by critics and audiences in films such as <i><a href="/wiki/Stage_Door" title="Stage Door">Stage Door</a></i> (1937), <i><a href="/wiki/Vivacious_Lady" title="Vivacious Lady">Vivacious Lady</a></i> (1938), <i><a href="/wiki/Bachelor_Mother" title="Bachelor Mother">Bachelor Mother</a></i> (1939), <i><a href="/wiki/Primrose_Path_(1940_film)" title="Primrose Path (1940 film)">Primrose Path</a></i> (1940), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Major_and_the_Minor" title="The Major and the Minor">The Major and the Minor</a></i> (1942) and <i><a href="/wiki/I%27ll_Be_Seeing_You_(1944_film)" title="I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film)">I'll Be Seeing You</a></i> (1944). After winning the Oscar, Rogers became one of the biggest box-office draws and highest-paid actresses of the 1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rogers's popularity was peaking by the end of the decade. She reunited with Astaire in 1949 in the commercially successful <i><a href="/wiki/The_Barkleys_of_Broadway" title="The Barkleys of Broadway">The Barkleys of Broadway</a>.</i> She starred in the successful comedy <i><a href="/wiki/Monkey_Business_(1952_film)" title="Monkey Business (1952 film)">Monkey Business</a></i> (1952) and was critically lauded for her performance in <i><a href="/wiki/Tight_Spot" title="Tight Spot">Tight Spot</a></i> (1955) before entering an unsuccessful period of filmmaking in the mid-1950s, and returned to Broadway in 1965, playing the lead role in <i><a href="/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(musical)" title="Hello, Dolly! (musical)">Hello, Dolly!</a></i> More Broadway roles followed, along with her stage directorial debut in 1985 of an off-Broadway production of <i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_Arms" title="Babes in Arms">Babes in Arms</a></i>. She continued to act, making television appearances until 1987, and wrote an autobiography <i>Ginger: My Story</i> which was published in 1991. In 1992, Rogers was recognized at the <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors" title="Kennedy Center Honors">Kennedy Center Honors</a>. She died of natural causes in 1995, at age 83. </p><p>During her long career, Rogers made 73 films. She ranks number 14 on the <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Stars" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars">AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars</a> list of female stars of classic American cinema. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ginger_Rogers_Birthplace.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Ginger_Rogers_Birthplace.jpg/220px-Ginger_Rogers_Birthplace.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Ginger_Rogers_Birthplace.jpg/330px-Ginger_Rogers_Birthplace.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Ginger_Rogers_Birthplace.jpg/440px-Ginger_Rogers_Birthplace.jpg 2x" data-file-width="986" data-file-height="681" /></a><figcaption>100 W Moore St., Independence, Missouri, the birthplace of Ginger Rogers</figcaption></figure> <p>Virginia Katherine McMath was born on July 16, 1911, in <a href="/wiki/Independence,_Missouri" title="Independence, Missouri">Independence, Missouri</a>, the only child of <a href="/wiki/Lela_E._Rogers" title="Lela E. Rogers">Lela Emogene Owens</a>, a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, and movie producer, and William Eddins McMath, an electrical engineer.<sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 9, 10">: 9, 10 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 16">: 16 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her maternal grandparents were Wilma Saphrona (<i>née</i> Ball) and Walter Winfield Owens.<sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3">: 3 </span></sup> She was of Scottish, Welsh, and English ancestry.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her mother gave birth to Ginger at home, having lost a previous child in a hospital.<sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 11">: 11 </span></sup> Her parents separated shortly after she was born.<sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 1, 2, 11">: 1, 2, 11 </span></sup>After unsuccessfully trying to reunite with his family, McMath kidnapped his daughter twice, and her mother divorced him soon thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 7, 15">: 7, 15 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NewsKidnapping_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewsKidnapping-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rogers said that she never saw her natural father again.<sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 15">: 15 </span></sup> </p><p>In 1915, she was left with her grandparents, who lived in nearby <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City</a>, while her mother made a trip to <a href="/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles" title="Hollywood, Los Angeles">Hollywood</a> in an effort to get an essay she had written made into a film.<sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 19">: 19 </span></sup> Lela succeeded and continued to write scripts for Fox Studios.<sup id="cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 26–29">: 26–29 </span></sup> </p><p>One of Rogers's young cousins had a hard time pronouncing "Virginia", giving her the nickname "Ginger".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Rogers was nine years old, her mother married John Logan Rogers. Ginger took the surname Rogers, although she was never legally adopted. They lived in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Worth" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Worth">Fort Worth</a>. Her mother became a theater critic for a local newspaper, the <i>Fort Worth Record</i>. She attended, but did not graduate from, Fort Worth's Central High School (later renamed <a href="/wiki/R._L._Paschal_High_School" title="R. L. Paschal High School">R. L. Paschal High School</a>.) </p><p>As a teenager, Rogers thought of becoming a school teacher, but with her mother's interest in Hollywood and the theater, her early exposure to the theater increased. Waiting for her mother in the wings of the Majestic Theatre, she began to sing and dance along with the performers on stage.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1925–1929:_Vaudeville_and_Broadway"><span id="1925.E2.80.931929:_Vaudeville_and_Broadway"></span>1925–1929: Vaudeville and Broadway</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1925–1929: Vaudeville and Broadway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ginger_Rogers_and_the_Redheads_advertisement_-_Yale_Theater,_TX_(1926).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ginger_Rogers_and_the_Redheads_advertisement_-_Yale_Theater%2C_TX_%281926%29.png/220px-Ginger_Rogers_and_the_Redheads_advertisement_-_Yale_Theater%2C_TX_%281926%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ginger_Rogers_and_the_Redheads_advertisement_-_Yale_Theater%2C_TX_%281926%29.png/330px-Ginger_Rogers_and_the_Redheads_advertisement_-_Yale_Theater%2C_TX_%281926%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ginger_Rogers_and_the_Redheads_advertisement_-_Yale_Theater%2C_TX_%281926%29.png/440px-Ginger_Rogers_and_the_Redheads_advertisement_-_Yale_Theater%2C_TX_%281926%29.png 2x" data-file-width="723" data-file-height="850" /></a><figcaption>Advertisement for Ginger Rogers and the Redheads</figcaption></figure> <p>Rogers's entertainment career began when the traveling <a href="/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> act of <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Foy" title="Eddie Foy">Eddie Foy</a> came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in. In 1925 the 14-year-old entered and won a <a href="/wiki/Charleston_(dance)" title="Charleston (dance)">Charleston dance</a> contest, the prize allowed her to tour as Ginger Rogers and the Redheads for six months on the <a href="/wiki/Orpheum_Circuit" title="Orpheum Circuit">Orpheum Circuit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1926, the group performed at an 18-month-old theater called <a href="/wiki/The_Craterian" class="mw-redirect" title="The Craterian">The Craterian</a> in <a href="/wiki/Medford,_Oregon" title="Medford, Oregon">Medford, Oregon</a>. This theater honored her years later by changing its name to the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the M.G.M film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Barrier_(1926_film)" title="The Barrier (1926 film)">The Barrier</a></i> premiered in <a href="/wiki/San_Bernardino,_California" title="San Bernardino, California">San Bernardino</a>, California, in February 1926, Rogers's vaudeville act was featured. The local newspaper commented, "Clever little Ginger Rogers showed why she won the Texas state championship as a Charleston dancer."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At 17, Rogers married Jack Culpepper, a singer/dancer/comedian/recording artist of the day who worked under the name <a href="/wiki/Jack_Pepper" title="Jack Pepper">Jack Pepper</a> (according to Ginger's autobiography and <i>Life</i> magazine, she knew Culpepper when she was a child, as her cousin's boyfriend).<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They formed a short-lived vaudeville double act known as "Ginger and Pepper". The marriage was over within a year, and she went back to touring with her mother.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the tour got to New York City, she stayed, getting radio singing jobs. She made her Broadway debut in the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Top_Speed_(musical)" title="Top Speed (musical)">Top Speed</a></i>, which opened at <a href="/wiki/Chanin%27s_46th_Street_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Chanin's 46th Street Theatre">Chanin's 46th Street Theatre</a> on <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> Day, 1929<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> following the musical's premiere in Philadelphia at the <a href="/wiki/Chestnut_Street_Opera_House" title="Chestnut Street Opera House">Chestnut Street Opera House</a> on November 13, 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Within two weeks of the New York opening of <i>Top Speed</i>, Rogers was chosen to star on Broadway in <i><a href="/wiki/Girl_Crazy" title="Girl Crazy">Girl Crazy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Gershwin" title="George Gershwin">George Gershwin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ira_Gershwin" title="Ira Gershwin">Ira Gershwin</a>. Fred Astaire was hired to help the dancers with their choreography. Her appearance in <i>Girl Crazy</i> made her an overnight star at the age of 19.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1929–1933:_Early_film_roles"><span id="1929.E2.80.931933:_Early_film_roles"></span>1929–1933: Early film roles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1929–1933: Early film roles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:42nd-Street-Merkel-Keeler-Rogers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/42nd-Street-Merkel-Keeler-Rogers.jpg/220px-42nd-Street-Merkel-Keeler-Rogers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/42nd-Street-Merkel-Keeler-Rogers.jpg/330px-42nd-Street-Merkel-Keeler-Rogers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/42nd-Street-Merkel-Keeler-Rogers.jpg/440px-42nd-Street-Merkel-Keeler-Rogers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2810" data-file-height="2240" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Una_Merkel" title="Una Merkel">Una Merkel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruby_Keeler" title="Ruby Keeler">Ruby Keeler</a>, and Ginger Rogers in <i><a href="/wiki/42nd_Street_(film)" title="42nd Street (film)">42nd Street</a></i> (1933)</figcaption></figure> <p>Rogers's first movie roles were in a trio of short films made in 1929: <i>Night in the Dormitory</i>, <i>A Day of a Man of Affairs</i>, and <i>Campus Sweethearts</i>. In 1930, <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a> signed her to a seven-year contract.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Rogers soon got herself out of the Paramount contract—under which she had made five feature films at <a href="/wiki/Kaufman_Astoria_Studios" title="Kaufman Astoria Studios">Astoria Studios</a> in <a href="/wiki/Astoria,_Queens" title="Astoria, Queens">Astoria, Queens</a>—and moved with her mother to Hollywood. When she got to California, she signed a three-picture deal with <a href="/wiki/Path%C3%A9_Exchange" title="Pathé Exchange">Pathé Exchange</a>. Two of her pictures at Pathé were <i><a href="/wiki/Suicide_Fleet" title="Suicide Fleet">Suicide Fleet</a></i> (1931) and <i><a href="/wiki/Carnival_Boat" title="Carnival Boat">Carnival Boat</a></i> (1932) in which she played opposite future <a href="/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy" title="Hopalong Cassidy">Hopalong Cassidy</a> star <a href="/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" title="William Boyd (actor)">William Boyd</a>. Rogers also made feature films for Warner Bros., Monogram, and Fox in 1932, and was named one of 15 <a href="/wiki/WAMPAS_Baby_Stars" title="WAMPAS Baby Stars">WAMPAS Baby Stars</a>. She then made a significant breakthrough as Anytime Annie in the <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/42nd_Street_(film)" title="42nd Street (film)">42nd Street</a></i> (1933). She went on to make a series of films at Warner Bros., most notably in <i><a href="/wiki/Gold_Diggers_of_1933" title="Gold Diggers of 1933">Gold Diggers of 1933</a>,</i> in which her solo, "We're In The Money", included a verse in <a href="/wiki/Pig_Latin" title="Pig Latin">Pig Latin</a>. She then moved to <a href="/wiki/RKO_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="RKO Studios">RKO Studios</a>, was put under contract and with Astaire started work on <i><a href="/wiki/Flying_Down_to_Rio" title="Flying Down to Rio">Flying Down to Rio</a></i>, a picture starring <a href="/wiki/Dolores_del_R%C3%ADo" title="Dolores del Río">Dolores del Río</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gene_Raymond" title="Gene Raymond">Gene Raymond</a>. Rogers and Astaire "stole the show",<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an industry term for outshining the billed stars. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1933–1939:_Partnership_with_Astaire"><span id="1933.E2.80.931939:_Partnership_with_Astaire"></span>1933–1939: Partnership with Astaire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1933–1939: Partnership with Astaire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rogers was known for her partnership with <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a>. Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: <i><a href="/wiki/Flying_Down_to_Rio" title="Flying Down to Rio">Flying Down to Rio</a></i> (1933), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gay_Divorcee" title="The Gay Divorcee">The Gay Divorcee</a></i> (1934), <i><a href="/wiki/Roberta_(1935_film)" title="Roberta (1935 film)">Roberta</a></i> (1935), <i><a href="/wiki/Top_Hat" title="Top Hat">Top Hat</a></i> (1935), <i><a href="/wiki/Follow_the_Fleet" title="Follow the Fleet">Follow the Fleet</a></i> (1936), <i><a href="/wiki/Swing_Time_(film)" title="Swing Time (film)">Swing Time</a></i> (1936), <i><a href="/wiki/Shall_We_Dance_(1937_film)" title="Shall We Dance (1937 film)">Shall We Dance</a></i> (1937), <i><a href="/wiki/Carefree_(film)" title="Carefree (film)">Carefree</a></i> (1938), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Vernon_and_Irene_Castle" title="The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle">The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle</a></i> (1939). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Barkleys_of_Broadway" title="The Barkleys of Broadway">The Barkleys of Broadway</a></i> (1949) was produced later at MGM. They revolutionized the Hollywood musical by introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity with sweeping long shots set to songs specially composed for them by the greatest popular song composers of the day. One such composer was <a href="/wiki/Cole_Porter" title="Cole Porter">Cole Porter</a> with <a href="/wiki/Night_and_Day_(song)" title="Night and Day (song)">"Night and Day"</a>, a song Astaire sang to Rogers with the line "... you are the one" in two of their movies, being particularly poignant in their last pairing of <i>The Barkleys of Broadway.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></i> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fredginger.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Fredginger.jpg/220px-Fredginger.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Fredginger.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="293" data-file-height="317" /></a><figcaption>Rogers with her frequent co-star <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a> in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Roberta_(1935_film)" title="Roberta (1935 film)">Roberta</a></i> (1935)</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Arlene_Croce" title="Arlene Croce">Arlene Croce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hermes_Pan" title="Hermes Pan">Hermes Pan</a>, Hannah Hyam, and <a href="/wiki/John_Mueller" title="John Mueller">John Mueller</a> all consider Rogers to have been Astaire's finest dance partner, principally because of her ability to combine dancing skills, natural beauty, and exceptional abilities as a dramatic actress and comedian, thus truly complementing Astaire, a peerless dancer. The resulting song and dance partnership enjoyed a unique credibility in the eyes of audiences.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Of the <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire%27s_solo_and_partnered_dances" title="Fred Astaire's solo and partnered dances">33 partnered dances</a> Rogers performed with Astaire, Croce and Mueller have highlighted the infectious spontaneity of her performances in the comic numbers "<a href="/wiki/I%27ll_Be_Hard_to_Handle" title="I'll Be Hard to Handle">I'll Be Hard to Handle</a>" from <i>Roberta</i>, "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Putting_All_My_Eggs_in_One_Basket" title="I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket">I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket</a>" from <i>Follow the Fleet</i>, and "<a href="/wiki/Pick_Yourself_Up" title="Pick Yourself Up">Pick Yourself Up</a>" from <i>Swing Time</i>. They also point to the use Astaire made of her remarkably flexible back in classic romantic dances such as "<a href="/wiki/Smoke_Gets_in_Your_Eyes" title="Smoke Gets in Your Eyes">Smoke Gets in Your Eyes</a>" from <i>Roberta</i>, "<a href="/wiki/Cheek_to_Cheek" title="Cheek to Cheek">Cheek to Cheek</a>" from <i>Top Hat</i>, and "<a href="/wiki/Let%27s_Face_the_Music_and_Dance" title="Let's Face the Music and Dance">Let's Face the Music and Dance</a>" from <i>Follow the Fleet</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his collaborator <a href="/wiki/Hermes_Pan_(choreographer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hermes Pan (choreographer)">Hermes Pan</a>, both have testified to her consummate professionalism, even during periods of intense strain, as she tried to juggle her many other contractual film commitments with the punishing rehearsal schedules of Astaire, who made at most two films in any one year. In 1986, shortly before his death, Astaire remarked, "All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn't do it, but of course they could. So they always cried. All except Ginger. No, no, Ginger never cried".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>John Mueller summed up Rogers's abilities as: "Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners, not because she was superior to others as a dancer, but, because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began ... the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Author Dick Richards, on p. 162 of his book <i>Ginger: Salute to a Star</i>, quoted Astaire saying to Raymond Rohauer, curator at the New York Gallery of Modern Art, "Ginger was brilliantly effective. She made everything work for her. Actually she made things very fine for both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In a 1976 episode of the popular British talk-show <i><a href="/wiki/Parkinson_(TV_series)" title="Parkinson (TV series)">Parkinson</a></i> (Season 5, Episode 24), host <a href="/wiki/Michael_Parkinson" title="Michael Parkinson">Michael Parkinson</a> asked Astaire who his favorite dancing partner was. Astaire answered, "Excuse me, I must say Ginger was certainly [uh, uh,] the one. You know, the most effective partner I ever had. Everyone knows."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After 15 months apart and with RKO facing bankruptcy, the studio paired Fred and Ginger for another movie titled <i>Carefree</i>, but it lost money. Next came <i>The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle,</i> based on a true story, but the serious plot and tragic ending resulted in the worst box-office receipts of any of their films. This was driven not by diminished popularity, but by the hard 1930s economic reality. The production costs of musicals, always significantly more costly than regular features, continued to increase at a much faster rate than admissions.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1933–1939:_Success_in_nonmusicals"><span id="1933.E2.80.931939:_Success_in_nonmusicals"></span>1933–1939: Success in nonmusicals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1933–1939: Success in nonmusicals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ginger_Rogers_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ginger_Rogers_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_2.jpg/220px-Ginger_Rogers_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ginger_Rogers_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_2.jpg/330px-Ginger_Rogers_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ginger_Rogers_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_2.jpg/440px-Ginger_Rogers_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="948" data-file-height="968" /></a><figcaption>Rogers in the 1930s</figcaption></figure> <p>Both before and immediately after her dancing and acting partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Rogers starred in a number of successful nonmusical films. <i><a href="/wiki/Stage_Door" title="Stage Door">Stage Door</a></i> (1937) demonstrated her dramatic capacity, as the loquacious yet vulnerable girl next door and tough-minded theatrical hopeful, opposite <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" title="Katharine Hepburn">Katharine Hepburn</a>. Successful comedies included <i><a href="/wiki/Vivacious_Lady" title="Vivacious Lady">Vivacious Lady</a></i> (1938) with <a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Girl" title="Fifth Avenue Girl">Fifth Avenue Girl</a></i> (1939), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family, and <i><a href="/wiki/Bachelor_Mother" title="Bachelor Mother">Bachelor Mother</a></i> (1939), with <a href="/wiki/David_Niven" title="David Niven">David Niven</a>, in which she played a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1934, Rogers sued <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_of_Hollywood" title="Sylvia of Hollywood">Sylvia of Hollywood</a> for $100K for defamation. The fitness guru and radio personality had claimed that Rogers was on her radio show when, in fact, she was not.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 5, 1939, Rogers starred in "Single Party Going East", an episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Silver_Theater_(radio_program)" title="Silver Theater (radio program)">Silver Theater</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> radio.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kitty_foyle_-_life_magazine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Rogers as her character Kitty Foyle on the cover of Life" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Kitty_foyle_-_life_magazine.jpg/220px-Kitty_foyle_-_life_magazine.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Kitty_foyle_-_life_magazine.jpg/330px-Kitty_foyle_-_life_magazine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Kitty_foyle_-_life_magazine.jpg/440px-Kitty_foyle_-_life_magazine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><i>Life</i> cover featuring Kitty Foyle, her Oscar-winning role</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1940–1949:_Career_peak_and_reuniting_with_Astaire"><span id="1940.E2.80.931949:_Career_peak_and_reuniting_with_Astaire"></span>1940–1949: Career peak and reuniting with Astaire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1940–1949: Career peak and reuniting with Astaire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1941 Rogers won the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Academy Award for Best Actress">Academy Award for Best Actress</a> for her role in 1940's <i><a href="/wiki/Kitty_Foyle_(film)" title="Kitty Foyle (film)">Kitty Foyle</a></i>. She enjoyed considerable success during the early 1940s, and was RKO's hottest property during this period. In <i><a href="/wiki/Roxie_Hart_(film)" title="Roxie Hart (film)">Roxie Hart</a></i> (1942), based on the same play which later served as the template for the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_(musical)" title="Chicago (musical)">Chicago</a></i>, Rogers played a wisecracking flapper in a love triangle on trial for the murder of her lover; set in the era of prohibition. Most of the film takes place in a women's jail. </p><p>In the neorealist <i><a href="/wiki/Primrose_Path_(1940_film)" title="Primrose Path (1940 film)">Primrose Path</a></i> (1940), directed by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_La_Cava" title="Gregory La Cava">Gregory La Cava</a>, she played a prostitute's daughter trying to avoid family pressure into following the fate of her mother. Further highlights of this period included <i><a href="/wiki/Tom,_Dick_and_Harry_(1941_film)" title="Tom, Dick and Harry (1941 film)">Tom, Dick, and Harry</a></i>, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men; <i><a href="/wiki/I%27ll_Be_Seeing_You_(1944_film)" title="I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film)">I'll Be Seeing You</a></i> (1944), with <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Cotten" title="Joseph Cotten">Joseph Cotten</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a>'s first Hollywood feature film: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Major_and_the_Minor" title="The Major and the Minor">The Major and the Minor</a></i> (1942), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period. This film featured a performance by Rogers's real mother, Lela, playing her film mother. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ginger_Rogers_by_Virgil_Apger,_1949.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ginger_Rogers_by_Virgil_Apger%2C_1949.jpg/220px-Ginger_Rogers_by_Virgil_Apger%2C_1949.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ginger_Rogers_by_Virgil_Apger%2C_1949.jpg/330px-Ginger_Rogers_by_Virgil_Apger%2C_1949.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Ginger_Rogers_by_Virgil_Apger%2C_1949.jpg/440px-Ginger_Rogers_by_Virgil_Apger%2C_1949.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1372" data-file-height="1840" /></a><figcaption>Ginger Rogers by Virgil Apger, 1949</figcaption></figure> <p>After becoming a free agent, Rogers made hugely successful films with other studios in the mid-'40s, including <i><a href="/wiki/Tender_Comrade" title="Tender Comrade">Tender Comrade</a></i> (1943), <i><a href="/wiki/Lady_in_the_Dark_(film)" title="Lady in the Dark (film)">Lady in the Dark</a></i> (1944), and <i><a href="/wiki/Week-End_at_the_Waldorf" title="Week-End at the Waldorf">Week-End at the Waldorf</a></i> (1945), and became the highest-paid performer in Hollywood. However, by the end of the decade, her film career had peaked. <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Freed" title="Arthur Freed">Arthur Freed</a> reunited her with Fred Astaire in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Barkleys_of_Broadway" title="The Barkleys of Broadway">The Barkleys of Broadway</a></i> in 1949, when Judy Garland was unable to appear in the role that was to have reunited her with her <i><a href="/wiki/Easter_Parade_(film)" title="Easter Parade (film)">Easter Parade</a></i> co-star. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1950–1987:_Later_career"><span id="1950.E2.80.931987:_Later_career"></span>1950–1987: Later career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1950–1987: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monkey_Business_trailer.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Monkey_Business_trailer.JPG/220px-Monkey_Business_trailer.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Monkey_Business_trailer.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="325" data-file-height="238" /></a><figcaption>Ginger Rogers in <i>Monkey Business</i> (1952) with <i>(from left to right)</i> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Cornthwaite_(actor)" title="Robert Cornthwaite (actor)">Robert Cornthwaite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a></figcaption></figure><p>Rogers's film career entered a period of gradual decline in the 1950s, as parts for older actresses became more difficult to obtain, but she still scored with some solid movies. She starred in <i><a href="/wiki/Storm_Warning_(1950_film)" title="Storm Warning (1950 film)">Storm Warning</a></i> (1950) with <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Doris_Day" title="Doris Day">Doris Day</a>, a noir, anti-<a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> film by Warner Bros. In 1952 Rogers starred in two comedies featuring <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Monkey_Business_(1952_film)" title="Monkey Business (1952 film)">Monkey Business</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Hawks" title="Howard Hawks">Howard Hawks</a>, and <i><a href="/wiki/We%27re_Not_Married!" title="We're Not Married!">We're Not Married!</a>.</i> She followed those with a role in <i><a href="/wiki/Dreamboat_(film)" title="Dreamboat (film)">Dreamboat</a></i> alongside <a href="/wiki/Clifton_Webb" title="Clifton Webb">Clifton Webb</a>, as his former onscreen partner in silent films who wanted to renew their association on television. She played the female lead in <i><a href="/wiki/Tight_Spot" title="Tight Spot">Tight Spot</a></i> (1955), a mystery thriller, with <a href="/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson" title="Edward G. Robinson">Edward G. Robinson</a>. After a series of unremarkable films, she scored a great popular success on Broadway in 1965, playing Dolly Levi in the long-running <i><a href="/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(musical)" title="Hello, Dolly! (musical)">Hello, Dolly!</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Burns-Ginger_Rogers_in_Hello,_Dolly!.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/David_Burns-Ginger_Rogers_in_Hello%2C_Dolly%21.jpg/220px-David_Burns-Ginger_Rogers_in_Hello%2C_Dolly%21.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/David_Burns-Ginger_Rogers_in_Hello%2C_Dolly%21.jpg/330px-David_Burns-Ginger_Rogers_in_Hello%2C_Dolly%21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/David_Burns-Ginger_Rogers_in_Hello%2C_Dolly%21.jpg/440px-David_Burns-Ginger_Rogers_in_Hello%2C_Dolly%21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1520" data-file-height="1168" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/David_Burns_(actor)" title="David Burns (actor)">David Burns</a> and Rogers in <br /><i><a href="/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(musical)" title="Hello, Dolly! (musical)">Hello, Dolly!</a></i> on Broadway (1964) </figcaption></figure> <p>In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire; she presented him with a special <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> in 1950, 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. In 1969, she had the lead role in another long-running popular production, <i><a href="/wiki/Mame_(musical)" title="Mame (musical)">Mame</a></i>, from the book by <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Lawrence" title="Jerome Lawrence">Jerome Lawrence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Edwin_Lee" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Edwin Lee">Robert Edwin Lee</a>, with music and lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Herman" title="Jerry Herman">Jerry Herman</a>, at the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal_Drury_Lane" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatre Royal Drury Lane">Theatre Royal Drury Lane</a> in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> of <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, arriving for the role on the liner <i><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_2" title="Queen Elizabeth 2">Queen Elizabeth 2</a></i> from New York City. Her docking there occasioned the maximum of pomp and ceremony at <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>. She became the highest-paid performer in the history of the West End up to that time. The production ran for 14 months and featured a royal command performance for <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ginger_and_Lela_Rogers_with_President_Truman.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ginger_and_Lela_Rogers_with_President_Truman.png/220px-Ginger_and_Lela_Rogers_with_President_Truman.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ginger_and_Lela_Rogers_with_President_Truman.png/330px-Ginger_and_Lela_Rogers_with_President_Truman.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ginger_and_Lela_Rogers_with_President_Truman.png/440px-Ginger_and_Lela_Rogers_with_President_Truman.png 2x" data-file-width="721" data-file-height="296" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">President Harry Truman</a>, Ginger Rogers (to his right), <a href="/wiki/Lela_E._Rogers" title="Lela E. Rogers">Lela Rogers</a> (Ginger's mother), at the 1964 Ginger Rogers Day celebration</figcaption></figure> <p>From the 1950s onward, Rogers made occasional appearances on television, even substituting for a vacationing <a href="/wiki/Hal_March" title="Hal March">Hal March</a> on <i><a href="/wiki/The_$64,000_Question" title="The $64,000 Question">The $64,000 Question</a></i>. In the later years of her career, she made guest appearances in three different series by <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Spelling" title="Aaron Spelling">Aaron Spelling</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Love_Boat" title="The Love Boat">The Love Boat</a></i> (1979), <i><a href="/wiki/Glitter_(American_TV_series)" title="Glitter (American TV series)">Glitter</a></i> (1984), and <i><a href="/wiki/Hotel_(American_TV_series)" title="Hotel (American TV series)">Hotel</a></i> (1987), which was her final screen appearance as an actress. In 1985, Rogers fulfilled a long-standing wish to direct when she directed the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_Arms" title="Babes in Arms">Babes in Arms</a></i> off-Broadway in <a href="/wiki/Tarrytown,_New_York" title="Tarrytown, New York">Tarrytown, New York</a>, at 74 years old. It was produced by Michael Lipton and Robert Kennedy of Kennedy Lipton Productions. The production starred Broadway talents Donna Theodore, Carleton Carpenter, James Brennan, <a href="/wiki/Randy_Skinner" title="Randy Skinner">Randy Skinner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karen_Ziemba" title="Karen Ziemba">Karen Ziemba</a>, Dwight Edwards, and Kim Morgan. It is also noted in her autobiography <i>Ginger, My Story</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Honors">Honors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors" title="Kennedy Center Honors">Kennedy Center</a> honored Ginger Rogers in December 1992. This event, which was shown on television, was somewhat marred when Astaire's widow, Robyn Smith, who permitted clips of Astaire dancing with Rogers to be shown for free at the function itself, was unable to come to terms with <a href="/wiki/CBS_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="CBS Television">CBS Television</a> for broadcast rights to the clips (all previous rights-holders having donated broadcast rights<i> gratis</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Rogers has a star on the <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame" title="Hollywood Walk of Fame">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a> at 6772 Hollywood Boulevard.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Ginger_Rogers" title="Special:EditPage/Ginger Rogers">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Film_star_Ginger_Rogers_and_her_husband_1950s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Film_star_Ginger_Rogers_and_her_husband_1950s.jpg/220px-Film_star_Ginger_Rogers_and_her_husband_1950s.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Film_star_Ginger_Rogers_and_her_husband_1950s.jpg/330px-Film_star_Ginger_Rogers_and_her_husband_1950s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Film_star_Ginger_Rogers_and_her_husband_1950s.jpg/440px-Film_star_Ginger_Rogers_and_her_husband_1950s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2551" data-file-height="3543" /></a><figcaption>Rogers with <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Bergerac" title="Jacques Bergerac">Jacques Bergerac</a> in the 1950s</figcaption></figure> <p>Rogers, an only child, maintained a close relationship with her mother, Lela Rogers, throughout her life. Lela, a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, and movie producer, was one of the first women to enlist in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">Marine Corps</a>, was a founder of the successful "Hollywood Playhouse" for aspiring actors and actresses on the RKO set, and a founder of the <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_Alliance_for_the_Preservation_of_American_Ideals" title="Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals">Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rogers was a lifelong member of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> and campaigned for <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Dewey" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Dewey">Thomas Dewey</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_presidential_election" title="1944 United States presidential election">1944 presidential election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election" title="1964 United States presidential election">1964 presidential election</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1966_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1966 California gubernatorial election">1966 California gubernatorial election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was a strong opponent of <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>, speaking out against both him and his New Deal proposals. She was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rogers and her mother had a very close professional relationship. Lela Rogers was credited with pivotal contributions to her daughter's early successes in New York City and in Hollywood, and gave her much assistance in contract negotiations with RKO. She also wrote a children's mystery book with her daughter as the central character.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriages">Marriages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Marriages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rogers married and divorced five times. She did not have children. </p><p> On March 29, 1929, Rogers married for the first time at age 17 to her dancing partner <a href="/wiki/Jack_Pepper" title="Jack Pepper">Jack Pepper</a> (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper). They divorced in 1932, having separated soon after the wedding. Rogers dated <a href="/wiki/Mervyn_LeRoy" title="Mervyn LeRoy">Mervyn LeRoy</a> in 1932, but they ended the relationship and remained friends until his death in 1987. In 1934, she married actor <a href="/wiki/Lew_Ayres" title="Lew Ayres">Lew Ayres</a> (1908–96). They divorced six years later in 1940. In 1943, Rogers married her third husband, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Briggs_(actor)" title="Jack Briggs (actor)">Jack Briggs</a>, who was a U.S. Marine, before divorcing in 1950. In 1953, she married <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Bergerac" title="Jacques Bergerac">Jacques Bergerac</a>, a French actor 16 years her junior, whom she met on a trip to Paris. A lawyer in France, he came to Hollywood with her and became an actor. They divorced in 1957. Her fifth and final husband was director and producer <a href="/wiki/William_Marshall_(bandleader)" title="William Marshall (bandleader)">William Marshall</a>. They married in 1961 and divorced in 1970, after his bouts with alcohol and the financial collapse of their joint film production company in Jamaica.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ginger_Rogers_1993.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ginger_Rogers_1993.jpg/170px-Ginger_Rogers_1993.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ginger_Rogers_1993.jpg/255px-Ginger_Rogers_1993.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ginger_Rogers_1993.jpg/340px-Ginger_Rogers_1993.jpg 2x" data-file-width="804" data-file-height="937" /></a><figcaption>Rogers in 1993</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Friendships">Friendships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Friendships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rogers was lifelong friends with actresses <a href="/wiki/Lucille_Ball" title="Lucille Ball">Lucille Ball</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bette_Davis" title="Bette Davis">Bette Davis</a>. She appeared with Ball in an episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Here%27s_Lucy" title="Here's Lucy">Here's Lucy</a></i> on November 22, 1971, in which Rogers danced the <a href="/wiki/Charleston_(dance)" title="Charleston (dance)">Charleston</a> for the first time in many years. Rogers starred in one of the earliest films co-directed and co-scripted by a woman, <a href="/wiki/Wanda_Tuchock" title="Wanda Tuchock">Wanda Tuchock</a>'s <i>Finishing School</i> (1934). Rogers maintained a close friendship with her cousin, writer/socialite <a href="/wiki/Phyllis_Fraser" title="Phyllis Fraser">Phyllis Fraser</a>, the wife of <a href="/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House">Random House</a> publisher <a href="/wiki/Bennett_Cerf" title="Bennett Cerf">Bennett Cerf</a>. Rita Hayworth's maternal uncle, <a href="/wiki/Vinton_Hayworth" title="Vinton Hayworth">Vinton Hayworth</a>, was married to Rogers's maternal aunt, Jean Owens. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rogers was raised a Christian Scientist and remained a lifelong adherent. <a href="/wiki/Christian_Science" title="Christian Science">Christian Science</a> was a topic she discussed at length in her autobiography.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rogers's mother died in 1977. She remained at the 4-Rs (Rogers' Rogue River Ranch) until 1990. When the property was sold, Rogers moved to nearby Medford, Oregon. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interests">Interests</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Interests"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rogers was a talented tennis player, and entered the 1950 <a href="/wiki/US_Open_(tennis)" title="US Open (tennis)">US Open</a>. However, she and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Shields" title="Frank Shields">Frank Shields</a> were knocked out of the mixed doubles competition in the first round.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legacy">Legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The city of <a href="/wiki/Independence,_Missouri" title="Independence, Missouri">Independence, Missouri</a> designated the birthplace of Ginger Rogers a Historic Landmark Property in 1994. On July 16, 1994, Ginger and her secretary, Roberta Olden, appeared at the Ginger Rogers' Day celebration presented by the city. Rogers was present when Mayor Ron Stewart affixed a Historic Landmark Property plaque to the front of the house where she was born on July 16, 1911. She signed over 2,000 autographs at this event, which was one of her last public appearances. </p><p>Rogers' former home in Independence was purchased in 2016 by Three Trails Cottages, which restored, then transformed it into a museum dedicated to Lela Owens-Rogers and Ginger Rogers. It contained memorabilia, magazines, movie posters, and many items from the ranch that Lela and Ginger owned. On display were several gowns that Ginger Rogers wore. The museum was open seasonally from April to September, and several special events were held at the site each year. It closed in August 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rogers made her last public appearance on March 18, 1995, when she received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award. For many years, Rogers regularly supported, and held in-person presentations, at the <a href="/wiki/Craterian_Theater" title="Craterian Theater">Craterian Theater</a>, in Medford, where she had performed in 1926 as a vaudevillian. The theater was comprehensively restored in 1997 and posthumously renamed in her honor as the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ginger_Rogers_Grave.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Ginger_Rogers_Grave.JPG/220px-Ginger_Rogers_Grave.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="246" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Ginger_Rogers_Grave.JPG/330px-Ginger_Rogers_Grave.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Ginger_Rogers_Grave.JPG/440px-Ginger_Rogers_Grave.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Grave of Ginger Rogers at <a href="/wiki/Oakwood_Memorial_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakwood Memorial Park">Oakwood Memorial Park</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Rogers spent winters in <a href="/wiki/Rancho_Mirage,_California" title="Rancho Mirage, California">Rancho Mirage</a> and summers in Medford, Oregon. She died at her Rancho Mirage home on April 25, 1995, from a heart attack at the age of 83.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was cremated and her ashes interred with her mother <a href="/wiki/Lela_E._Rogers" title="Lela E. Rogers">Lela Emogene</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oakwood_Memorial_Park_Cemetery" title="Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery">Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery</a> in Chatsworth, California.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy_2">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Likenesses of Astaire and Rogers, apparently painted over from the "Cheek to Cheek" dance in <i>Top Hat</i>, are in the "<a href="/wiki/Lucy_in_the_Sky_With_Diamonds" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds">Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds</a>" section of <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(film)" title="Yellow Submarine (film)">Yellow Submarine</a></i> (1968).</li> <li>Rogers's image is one of many famous women's images of the 1930s and 1940s featured on the bedroom wall in the <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank_House" title="Anne Frank House">Anne Frank House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, a gallery of magazine cuttings pasted on the wall created by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne</a> and her sister <a href="/wiki/Margot_Frank" title="Margot Frank">Margot</a> while hiding from the <a href="/wiki/Nazis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis">Nazis</a>. When the house became a museum, the gallery the Frank sisters created was preserved under glass.</li> <li><i>Ginger The Musical</i> by Robert Kennedy and Paul Becker which Ginger Rogers approved and was to direct on Broadway the year of her death was in negotiations as late as the 2016–17 Broadway season. Marshall Mason directed its first production in 2001 starring Donna McKechnie and Nili Bassman and was choreographed by Randy Skinner.</li> <li>Rogers was the heroine of a novel, <i>Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak</i> (1942, by Lela E. Rogers), in which "the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress, but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person." It is part of a series known as "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941 and 1947 that featured a film actress as heroine.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Dancing_House" title="Dancing House">Dancing House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>, sometimes known as Ginger and Fred, designed by the <a href="/wiki/Croats" title="Croats">Croatian</a>-Czech architect <a href="/wiki/Vlado_Miluni%C4%87" title="Vlado Milunić">Vlado Milunić</a> in cooperation with <a href="/wiki/Canadians" title="Canadians">Canadian</a>-American architect <a href="/wiki/Frank_Gehry" title="Frank Gehry">Frank Gehry</a> and inspired by the dancing of Astaire and Rogers.</li> <li>In the 1981 film <i><a href="/wiki/Pennies_from_Heaven_(1981_film)" title="Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)">Pennies From Heaven</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Bernadette_Peters" title="Bernadette Peters">Bernadette Peters</a>'s character dances with <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a>'s as they watch Fred and Ginger's "Let's Face the Music and Dance" sequence from 1936's <i>Follow the Fleet</i>, using it as their inspiration.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federico_Fellini" title="Federico Fellini">Federico Fellini</a>'s film <i><a href="/wiki/Ginger_and_Fred" title="Ginger and Fred">Ginger and Fred</a></i> centers on two aging Italian impersonators of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Rogers sued the production and the distributor when the film was released in the U.S. for misappropriation and infringement of her public personality. Her claims were dismissed. According to the judgment, the film only obliquely related to Astaire and her.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rogers was among the sixteen Golden Age Hollywood stars referenced in the bridge of <a href="/wiki/Madonna" title="Madonna">Madonna</a>'s 1990 single "<a href="/wiki/Vogue_(Madonna_song)" title="Vogue (Madonna song)">Vogue</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rogers is the namesake of the <a href="/wiki/Buck_(cocktail)#Variations" title="Buck (cocktail)">Ginger Rogers</a>, a cocktail containing gin, ginger, and mint.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rogers was the subject of a quotation summarizing women's capacity to achieve that is popular among feminists: "Rogers did everything [Astaire] did, backwards . . . and in high heels." The quote comes from a 1982 <i><a href="/wiki/Frank_and_Ernest_(comic_strip)" title="Frank and Ernest (comic strip)">Frank and Ernest</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a> by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Thaves" title="Bob Thaves">Bob Thaves</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Musical_play" class="mw-redirect" title="Musical play">musical</a> about the life of Rogers, entitled <i>Backwards in High Heels</i>, premiered in Florida in early 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ginger_Rogers_filmography" title="Ginger Rogers filmography">Ginger Rogers filmography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=19" 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.cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFOliver1995" class="citation news cs1">Oliver, Myrna (April 26, 1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ginger-rogers-19950426-story.html">"From the Archives: Movie Great Ginger Rogers Dies at 83"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 15,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=From+the+Archives%3A+Movie+Great+Ginger+Rogers+Dies+at+83&rft.date=1995-04-26&rft.aulast=Oliver&rft.aufirst=Myrna&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Flocal%2Fobituaries%2Fla-me-ginger-rogers-19950426-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GingerMyStory-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory_2-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRogers1991" class="citation book cs1">Rogers, Ginger (1991). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gingermystory00roge"><i>Ginger: My Story</i></a></span>. New York: HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-0615-6470-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-0615-6470-3"><bdi>978-0-0615-6470-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ginger%3A+My+Story&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=978-0-0615-6470-3&rft.aulast=Rogers&rft.aufirst=Ginger&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgingermystory00roge&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWare2004" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Ware, Susan (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&pg=PA551">"Ginger Rogers"</a>. <i>Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century</i>. Harvard University Press. p. 551. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-6740-1488-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-6740-1488-6"><bdi>978-0-6740-1488-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Ginger+Rogers&rft.btitle=Notable+American+Women%3A+A+Biographical+Dictionary+Completing+the+Twentieth+Century&rft.pages=551&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-6740-1488-6&rft.aulast=Ware&rft.aufirst=Susan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWSaMu4F06AQC%26pg%3DPA551&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GingerMyStory2-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GingerMyStory2_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRogers1991" class="citation book cs1">Rogers, Ginger (1991). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gingermystory00roge"><i>Ginger: My Story</i></a></span>. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107055.html">the original</a> on August 29, 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Playbill&rft.atitle=Sold+Out+Florida+Stage+Run+of+Ginger+Rogers+Musical+Gets+Added+Performances&rft.date=2007-04-04&rft.aulast=Jones&rft.aufirst=Kenneth&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.playbill.com%2Fnews%2Farticle%2F107055.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theatermania.com/shows/los-angeles/backwards-in-high-heels-the-ginger-musical_164260">"Backwards In High Heels: The Ginger Musical"</a>. <i>TheaterMania</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TheaterMania&rft.atitle=Backwards+In+High+Heels%3A+The+Ginger+Musical&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatermania.com%2Fshows%2Flos-angeles%2Fbackwards-in-high-heels-the-ginger-musical_164260&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ginger_Rogers&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAstaire2008" class="citation book cs1">Astaire, Fred (August 5, 2008). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SYYUnU9lcdwC&q=steps+in+time"><i>Steps in Time</i></a></span> (reprint ed.). Harper Collins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0061567568" title="Special:BookSources/978-0061567568"><bdi>978-0061567568</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Steps+in+Time&rft.edition=reprint&rft.pub=Harper+Collins&rft.date=2008-08-05&rft.isbn=978-0061567568&rft.aulast=Astaire&rft.aufirst=Fred&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSYYUnU9lcdwC%26q%3Dsteps%2Bin%2Btime&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCroce1977" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Arlene_Croce" title="Arlene Croce">Croce, Arlene</a> (1977). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kC0UAQAAIAAJ&q=editions%3A61_gDePcyvEC"><i>The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book</i></a></span> (reprint ed.). Vintage Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0394724768" title="Special:BookSources/978-0394724768"><bdi>978-0394724768</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Fred+Astaire+and+Ginger+Rogers+Book&rft.edition=reprint&rft.pub=Vintage+Books&rft.date=1977&rft.isbn=978-0394724768&rft.aulast=Croce&rft.aufirst=Arlene&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DkC0UAQAAIAAJ%26q%3Deditions%253A61_gDePcyvEC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFaris1994" class="citation book cs1">Faris, Jocelyn (1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BouxUlFDgc4C&q=Ginger+Rogers+%E2%80%93+a+Bio-Bibliography&pg=PT4"><i>Ginger Rogers – a Bio-Bibliography</i></a>. Greenwood Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0313291777" title="Special:BookSources/978-0313291777"><bdi>978-0313291777</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ginger+Rogers+%E2%80%93+a+Bio-Bibliography&rft.pub=Greenwood+Press&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=978-0313291777&rft.aulast=Faris&rft.aufirst=Jocelyn&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBouxUlFDgc4C%26q%3DGinger%2BRogers%2B%25E2%2580%2593%2Ba%2BBio-Bibliography%26pg%3DPT4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHyam2007" class="citation book cs1">Hyam, Hannah (2007). <i>Fred and Ginger – The Astaire-Rogers Partnership 1934–1938</i>. Brighton: Pen Press Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-905621-96-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-905621-96-5"><bdi>978-1-905621-96-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Fred+and+Ginger+%E2%80%93+The+Astaire-Rogers+Partnership+1934%E2%80%931938&rft.place=Brighton&rft.pub=Pen+Press+Publications&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-1-905621-96-5&rft.aulast=Hyam&rft.aufirst=Hannah&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMueller1986" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Mueller" title="John Mueller">Mueller, John</a> (1986). <i>Astaire Dancing – The Musical Films of Fred Astaire</i>. Hamish Hamilton. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0241117491" title="Special:BookSources/978-0241117491"><bdi>978-0241117491</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Astaire+Dancing+%E2%80%93+The+Musical+Films+of+Fred+Astaire&rft.pub=Hamish+Hamilton&rft.date=1986&rft.isbn=978-0241117491&rft.aulast=Mueller&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGinger+Rogers" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRogers1991" class="citation book cs1">Rogers, Ginger (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yntZAAAAMAAJ&q=editions:Cv0d9DxbXWgC"><i>Ginger: My Story</i></a>. 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<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vivien_Leigh" title="Vivien Leigh">Vivien Leigh</a> (1939)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ginger Rogers</a> (1940)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joan_Fontaine" title="Joan Fontaine">Joan Fontaine</a> (1941)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greer_Garson" title="Greer Garson">Greer Garson</a> (1942)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Jones" title="Jennifer Jones">Jennifer Jones</a> (1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ingrid_Bergman" title="Ingrid Bergman">Ingrid Bergman</a> (1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland" title="Olivia de Havilland">Olivia de Havilland</a> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Loretta_Young" title="Loretta Young">Loretta Young</a> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jane_Wyman" title="Jane Wyman">Jane Wyman</a> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland" title="Olivia de Havilland">Olivia de Havilland</a> (1949)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Judy_Holliday" title="Judy Holliday">Judy Holliday</a> (1950)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vivien_Leigh" title="Vivien Leigh">Vivien Leigh</a> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Booth" title="Shirley Booth">Shirley Booth</a> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn" title="Audrey Hepburn">Audrey Hepburn</a> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Grace_Kelly" title="Grace Kelly">Grace Kelly</a> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anna_Magnani" title="Anna Magnani">Anna Magnani</a> (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ingrid_Bergman" title="Ingrid Bergman">Ingrid Bergman</a> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joanne_Woodward" title="Joanne Woodward">Joanne Woodward</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Susan_Hayward" title="Susan Hayward">Susan Hayward</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Simone_Signoret" title="Simone Signoret">Simone Signoret</a> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Loren" title="Sophia Loren">Sophia Loren</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anne_Bancroft" title="Anne Bancroft">Anne Bancroft</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Neal" title="Patricia Neal">Patricia Neal</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Julie_Andrews" title="Julie Andrews">Julie Andrews</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Julie_Christie" title="Julie Christie">Julie Christie</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" title="Katharine Hepburn">Katharine Hepburn</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" title="Katharine Hepburn">Katharine Hepburn</a> / <a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Maggie_Smith" title="Maggie Smith">Maggie Smith</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Glenda_Jackson" title="Glenda Jackson">Glenda Jackson</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jane_Fonda" title="Jane Fonda">Jane Fonda</a> (1971) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Liza_Minnelli" title="Liza Minnelli">Liza Minnelli</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Glenda_Jackson" title="Glenda Jackson">Glenda Jackson</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Burstyn" title="Ellen Burstyn">Ellen Burstyn</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Louise_Fletcher" title="Louise Fletcher">Louise Fletcher</a> (1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Faye_Dunaway" title="Faye Dunaway">Faye Dunaway</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Diane_Keaton" title="Diane Keaton">Diane Keaton</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jane_Fonda" title="Jane Fonda">Jane Fonda</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sally_Field" title="Sally Field">Sally Field</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sissy_Spacek" title="Sissy Spacek">Sissy Spacek</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" title="Katharine Hepburn">Katharine Hepburn</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Meryl_Streep" title="Meryl Streep">Meryl Streep</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shirley_MacLaine" title="Shirley MacLaine">Shirley MacLaine</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sally_Field" title="Sally Field">Sally Field</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Page" title="Geraldine Page">Geraldine Page</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Marlee_Matlin" title="Marlee Matlin">Marlee Matlin</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cher" title="Cher">Cher</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jodie_Foster" title="Jodie Foster">Jodie Foster</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Tandy" title="Jessica Tandy">Jessica Tandy</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kathy_Bates" title="Kathy Bates">Kathy Bates</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jodie_Foster" title="Jodie Foster">Jodie Foster</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Emma_Thompson" title="Emma Thompson">Emma Thompson</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Holly_Hunter" title="Holly Hunter">Holly Hunter</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Susan_Sarandon" title="Susan Sarandon">Susan Sarandon</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Frances_McDormand" title="Frances McDormand">Frances McDormand</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Helen_Hunt" title="Helen Hunt">Helen Hunt</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gwyneth_Paltrow" title="Gwyneth Paltrow">Gwyneth Paltrow</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hilary_Swank" title="Hilary Swank">Hilary Swank</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Julia_Roberts" title="Julia Roberts">Julia Roberts</a> (2000)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Halle_Berry" title="Halle Berry">Halle 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href="/wiki/Natalie_Portman" title="Natalie Portman">Natalie Portman</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Meryl_Streep" title="Meryl Streep">Meryl Streep</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence" title="Jennifer Lawrence">Jennifer Lawrence</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cate_Blanchett" title="Cate Blanchett">Cate Blanchett</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Julianne_Moore" title="Julianne Moore">Julianne Moore</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brie_Larson" title="Brie Larson">Brie Larson</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Emma_Stone" title="Emma Stone">Emma Stone</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Frances_McDormand" title="Frances McDormand">Frances McDormand</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Olivia_Colman" title="Olivia Colman">Olivia Colman</a> 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