Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers
Date of Birth: 16 Jul 1911
Country: USA
Biography: Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 - April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century. During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and is noted for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre...(Wikipedia)
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Monkey Business
Barnaby Fulton, a chemist, is working on youth formula for a chemical company by testing it on chimps... (imdb)
The Major and the Minor
A woman disguises herself as a child to save on a train fare and is taken in charge by an army man who doesn't notice the truth. (imdb)
Top Hat
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel... (imdb)
Follow the Fleet
When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner... (imdb)
The Gay Divorcee
Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity... (imdb)
Swing Time
Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act... (imdb)
A Shriek in the Night
Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building. (imdb)
Gold Diggers of 1933
Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play. (imdb)
Stage Door
A boardinghouse full of aspiring actresses and their ambitions, dreams and disappointments. (imdb)
Shall We Dance
Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows... (imdb)
Carefree
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr... (imdb)
42nd Street
Julian Marsh, an sucessful Broadway director, produces a new show, inspite of his poor health. The money comes from a rich old man, who is in love with the star of the show, Dorothy Brock. But she doesn't reply his love, because she is still in love with her old partner. (imdb)
Star of Midnight
A dancer disappears from a theather and then William Powell and society beauty Ginger Rogers solve the murder. (imdb)
Once Upon a Honeymoon
At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having Nazi ties... (imdb)
Change of Heart
Janet Gaynor and James Dunn and their close friends Charles Farrell and Ginger Rogers graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work. (imdb)
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Ginger Rogers is a convict released from state penitentiary for a Christmas leave. On the train, she meets Sergeant Joseph Cotton who has been released from a mental hospital and she invites him home for dinner. (imdb)
Kitty Foyle
Ginger Rogers, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her. (imdb)
Bachelor Mother
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together. (imdb)
Flying Down to Rio
Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged... (imdb)
Roberta
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie. (imdb)
Cinderella
Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical retelling of the classic fairy tale. Cinderella is a teenage girl forced to do all of the menial tasks in the home she shares with her coldhearted stepmother and homely stepsisters. One day when home alone, Cinderella shares a cup of water with a thirsty and handsome traveler, not realizing until he continues on his journey that he is the crown prince of the kingdom... (imdb)
Rafter Romance
Ginger Rogers, a working girl, shares a Greenwich Village apartment with Norman Foster, an artist-night watchman. They share the apartment on a shift basis never seeing each other. Ginger develops a hearty dislike for Foster until she meets him. (imdb)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
In 1911, Vernon Castle, minor comic in a stage revue, pursues the leading lady to a New Jersey beach...where, instead, he meets stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they're married; at Irene's insistence, they abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career, which attempt only lands them in Paris without a sou... (imdb)
Roxie Hart
To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don't seem to let dames swing, and even with top slippery lawyer Billy Flynn, it's all something of a gamble. (imdb)
Week-End at the Waldorf
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer, and more... (imdb)
In Person
Ginger Rogers, a movie star who has had a nervous breakdown and is suffering from agoraphobia, runs away and meets George Brent and they both retreat to the mountains. (imdb)
The Barkleys of Broadway
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade. (imdb)
Tales of Manhattan
An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the 4 succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth. (imdb)
Black Widow
A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. (imdb)
Follow the Leader
Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped. (imdb)
Vivacious Lady
Assistant biology professor Peter Morgan falls in love with and marries nightclub singer Francey while he is in New York to fetch his wayward cousin home. On returning to the small town university run by his dictatorial and conservative father his courage fails him when he has to announce things. Some of the activities of his new bride do not make it any easier. (imdb)
Primrose Path
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage. (imdb)
Storm Warning
Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha sees the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey in bringing the criminals to justice. (imdb)
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In separate stories, five wedded couples learn that they are not legally married. (imdb)
Tight Spot
Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background, is taken from prison to a hotel, where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was murdered before he made it to the stand, and why should she stick her neck out? At the hotel, several attempts are made on her life, and she falls for Vince, the policemen guarding her. (imdb)
Fifth Avenue Girl
Rich industrialist Walter Connolly feels unwanted by his wife and children so he hires unemployed Ginger Rogers to pose as his mistress. (imdb)
It Had to Be You
Ginger Rogers always gets cold feet just before four weddings until fireman Cornell Wilde appears. (imdb)
Lucky Partners
Ronald Colman shares a sweepstakes ticket with Ginger Rogers and they then embark on an "imaginary" honeymoon with their "winnings." (imdb)
The Thirteenth Guest
Thirteen years ago, somebody murdered the wealthy host of a dinner party. Now, his rich heiress is found electrocuted in the abandoned Morgan mansion. At the request of Police Captain Ryan, private investigator (and suave playboy) Phil Winston takes time out from his carefree social life to help ferret out the murderer. (Oldies.com)
Having Wonderful Time
Ginger Rogers, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (imdb)
Tom, Dick and Harry
Ginger Rogers, a telephone operator, is pursued by George Murphy (a down-to earth fellow), Alan Marshal (a rich man) and Burgess Meredith (a noncomformist). She dreams what life would be life married to each of them. (imdb)
Tender Comrade
Ginger Rogers, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation. (imdb)
Chance at Heaven
An ambitious mechanic is tempted to desert his wonderful girlfriend when a silly but rich debutante falls for him. (imdb)
Dreamboat
Clifton Webb, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter (Anne Francis) to stop it. However, his former co-star (Ginger Rogers), is the hostess of the TV show playing his films and she has other plans. (imdb)
Heartbeat
A young female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is caught red-handed on her first attempt at stealing by an upper class man. He recruits her to do him a favor at a society party where she meets and falls in love with a young, handsome, rich diplomat. Whether or not she can land him is another story. (imdb)
Lady in the Dark
Ginger Rogers, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuous daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why. (imdb)
Finishing School
The trials and tribulations in a private, snobbish girls school (imdb)
Forever Female
Aging actress Ginger Rogers refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role any longer. (imdb)
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Unscrupulous agent Pat O'Brien makes singing waiter Dick Powell a big radio star while Ginger Rogers, who has lost her own radio show, helps Powell. (imdb)
Upperworld
A rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him -- she's too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. This are going OK until the girl's manager/boyfriend, seeing his chance to make some big money, decides to blackmail him. (imdb)
You Said a Mouthful
Both Joe E. Brown and Guinn Williams are named Joe Holt; Brown is a shipping clerk and Williams is a champion Canadian swimmer. Socialite Ginger Rogers gets them confused and thinks that Brown is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit and enters him in a 20 mile (32 km) swim race. (imdb)
Magnificent Doll
Ginger Rogers is the daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, DC who falls in love with Aaron Burr and James Madison. (imdb)
Romance in Manhattan
Ginger Rogers and her kid brother (Jimmy Butler) "adopt" Francis Lederer, a Czech immigrant who then becomes a taxi driver. (imdb)
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
Ginger Rogers, Dan Dailey's bored housewife, seeks psychiatric help from Dr. David Niven who also solves his own emotional problems. (imdb)
The Groom Wore Spurs
Lawyer Ginger Rogers is hired to keep dumb cowboy Jack Carson out of trouble. (imdb)
Professional Sweetheart
An orphan girl struggles with her desire for a more dangerous, more adventurous life and her duty posing as the "purity girl" and radio-sponsor of a wash cloth.
Perfect Strangers
Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan, serving on a sequestered jury during a murder trial, fall in love. She is divorced, he is married. (imdb)
Carnival Boat
A young man about to inherit management over a lumber crew struggles between the love for a woman and obedience to his father.
The Tenderfoot
Joe E. Brown is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Ginger Rogers, a secretary, learns that her boss, Lew Cody, is attempting to swindle Brown and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in. (imdb)
Suicide Fleet
Three US sailors fight German U-boats in World War I aboard a decoy ship and try to win Ginger Rogers who works on the Coney Island midway. (imdb)
The First Traveling Saleslady
At the turn of the century Rose and ex-showbiz friend Molly get involved in selling steel. When they come unstuck with corsets they embark on the even more hazardous project of selling barbed wire to highly suspicious Texas cowboys. (imdb)
Teenage Rebel
Ginger Rogers get her teenage daughter (Betty Lou Keim) back from her ex-husband when she remarries and must win her love. (imdb)
Twist of Fate
A woman is taken in by the gifts she receives from a wealthy baker, unaware of his motives or his marriage status. (TCM)
Office Blues
Office Blues (1930) - Short Film
An amorous secretary ignores her importunate co-worker and daydreams (in song) about her boss when she should be working on letters. (imdb)
The Tip-Off
Eddie Quillan falls in love with a gangster's girlfriend but avoids trouble when he becomes friends with Robert Armstrong and his girlfriend (imdb)
Broadway Bad
Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing. (imdb)
The Confession
Ginger Rogers, owner of a bordello, helps thief Ray Milland locate an ancient buried treasure. (imdb)
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Lew Ayres, a plumber, wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. Ginger Rogers, his manicurist girlfriend , stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber. (imdb)
Harlow
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. (imdb)
Honor Among Lovers
Fredric March, a businessman, is in love with his secretary (Claudette Colbert) but she deserts him for another man; when she realizes her mistake, she goes back to March. Ginger Rogers is Colbert's girlfriend who is love with Charles Ruggles. (imdb)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master of ceremonies, Fredric March, brings on the various acts, starting with a pre-teen Mitzi Green), dressed as an adult and singing "Was That the Human Thing to Do?" , followed by Ginger Rogers and Jack Oakie singing-and-dancing to "The Girl Who Used to be You. (imdb)
Sitting Pretty
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them. (imdb)
Queen High
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year. (imdb)
Young Man of Manhattan
Two flappers (Claudette Colbert and Ginger Rogers) try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them. (imdb)
Hat Check Girl
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie. (imdb)
The Sap from Syracuse
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks try to get rid of her. (imdb)
A Night in a Dormitory
The adventures of a schoolgirl in a nightclub as related by her to her dormitory sisters.