Ginger Rogers
American actress and dancer (1911-1995) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 83
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Kitty Foyle (1940), and performed during the 1930s in RKO's musical films with Fred Astaire.
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1995Died25 April 19951994
That's Entertainment! IIIFilm, (archive footage) (uncredited)1980Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary AwardAward1978
The Kennedy Center HonorsSeries1976
That's Entertainment, Part IIFilm, (archive footage)1974
That's Entertainment!Film, (archive footage) (uncredited)1973
The Dean Martin Celebrity RoastsSeries1971
Great PerformancesSeries1967
OmnibusSeries1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler TheatreSeries, Helen1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1959
The DuPont Show with June AllysonSeries, Kay Neilson1955
Tight SpotFilm, Sherry Conley1953
The OscarsSeries
Forever FemaleFilm, 1953Beatrice Page1952
DreamboatFilm, Gloria Marlowe1949
The Barkleys of BroadwayFilm, Dinah Barkley1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1942
Once Upon a HoneymoonFilm, Katherine Butt-Smith1941Academy Award for Best ActressAward1940
Kitty FoyleFilm, Kitty Foyle1939
Bachelor MotherFilm, Polly Parrish1937
Shall We DanceFilm, Linda Keene1935
RobertaFilm, Scharwenka1934
Finishing SchoolFilm, Pony1932
The Thirteenth GuestFilm, Lela / Marie Morgan1911Born16 July 1911
That's Entertainment! IIIFilm, (archive footage) (uncredited)1980Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary AwardAward1978The Kennedy Center HonorsSeries1976That's Entertainment, Part IIFilm, (archive footage)1974That's Entertainment!Film, (archive footage) (uncredited)1973The Dean Martin Celebrity RoastsSeries1971Great PerformancesSeries1967OmnibusSeries1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler TheatreSeries, Helen1961The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1959The DuPont Show with June AllysonSeries, Kay Neilson1955Tight SpotFilm, Sherry Conley1953The OscarsSeriesForever FemaleFilm, 1953Beatrice Page1952DreamboatFilm, Gloria Marlowe1949The Barkleys of BroadwayFilm, Dinah Barkley1948The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1942Once Upon a HoneymoonFilm, Katherine Butt-Smith1941Academy Award for Best ActressAward1940Kitty FoyleFilm, Kitty Foyle1939Bachelor MotherFilm, Polly Parrish1937Shall We DanceFilm, Linda Keene1935RobertaFilm, Scharwenka1934Finishing SchoolFilm, Pony1932The Thirteenth GuestFilm, Lela / Marie Morgan1911Born16 July 1911People around Ginger
Fred Astaire Also in Top Hat and Follow the Fleet
Merian C. Cooper Produced Flying Down to Rio and Rafter Romance
Nunnally Johnson Produced We're Not Married! and Roxie Hart
Mark Sandrich Directed Top Hat and The Gay Divorcee
William A. Seiter Directed Roberta and Chance at Heaven
Pandro S. Berman Produced Top Hat and The Gay Divorcee- Allan Scott Wrote Top Hat, Roberta and Shall We Dance
Gregory La Cava Directed Stage Door and Primrose Path
Eric Blore Also in Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee and Swing Time
Franklin Pangborn Also in Flying Down to Rio and Vivacious Lady
Lucille Ball Also in Top Hat, Roberta and Follow the Fleet
George Stevens Directed Swing Time and Vivacious Lady
Sam Wood Directed Kitty Foyle and Heartbeat
William Dieterle Directed I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Lloyd Bacon Directed 42nd Street and You Said a Mouthful
Garson Kanin Directed Bachelor Mother and Tom, Dick and Harry
Albert Ray Directed A Shriek in the Night (1933)
Buddy DeSylva Produced Bachelor Mother and Lady in the Dark
Jerry Wald Produced Storm Warning and Perfect Strangers
Roy Webb Wrote Kitty Foyle and Stage Door
Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Produced The Major and the Minor (1942)
Albert S. Rogell Directed The Tip-Off and Carnival Boat
Kenneth Macgowan Produced Rafter Romance and Finishing School
Charles R. Rogers Produced Carnival Boat and Sitting Pretty
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That's Entertainment! 1974
Shall We Dance 1937
Bachelor Mother 1939
Stage Door 1937
Top Hat 1935
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
146 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 12
100 W Moore St., Independence, Missouri, the birthplace of Rogers
Advertisement for Ginger Rogers and the Redheads in 1926
Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, and Rogers in 42nd Street (1933)
Rogers with her frequent co-star Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet (1936)
Rogers and Astaire in Carefree (1938)
A trailer for Kitty Foyle depicting Rogers' cover appearance on Life magazine for her Oscar-winning 1940 role
Rogers in Monkey Business (1952) with Robert Cornthwaite, Cary Grant, and Marilyn MonroeAwards
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Her career continued on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1911 to 1995 · aged 83
