Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers Album Page Signed - 1938
Bold autograph in pencil on album page in 1938, from the collection of another actor of the same period. Also signed on reverse by fellow actress Madelane Carroll.
GINGER ROGERS (1911-1995) was an American film and stage actress, dancer and singer. She ranks #14 on the list of AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars.
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. She also achieved success in a variety of film roles, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940).
Rogers was most famous for her partnership with Fred Astaire. Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), Carefree (1938), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), and a tenth film, The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), was made later at MGM, and in so doing, revolutionized the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity, set to songs specially composed for them by the greatest popular song composers of the day. To this day, “Fred and Ginger” remains an almost automatic reference for any successful dance partnership.
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