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...real life gets worse, the movies get better. Europe may be preparing for the holocaust, and depression is corroding America, but in the hermetically sealed universe of the studios, everything is Ginger peachy. Rogers appears dressed entirely in coins, chanting cheerfully, We're in the Money. In the background, inevitably, preposterously, are the chorines drilled by Busby Berkeley, a choreographer whose work would now be called high camp. In a kaleidoscopic display of bangles and bosoms, they articulate 300 legs in unison, like a spangled centipede. With Fred Astaire, Ginger begins a cycle that lasts 16 years-from Flying...
...Ginger Rogers ready for the museum? Well-yes and no. At 55, she is still a star, hoofing and puffing her way through Hello, Dolly! on Broadway at well over $3,000 a week. On the other hand, she has made more films than Cary Grant and has been a star for almost four decades. So it seemed appropriate last week when Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art awarded her a "Tribute"-a film festival of her finest hour-and-a-halfs-even though such honors are usually reserved for the likes of Garbo, Chaplin or yesterday...
Only a handful of the festival films are nonmusicals, but they too are strictly Celluloid City. In Kitty Foyle, Ginger's apotheosis of the gallant American White Collar Girl won her an Oscar. In Magnificent Doll, she plays Dolley Madison. Forced into a role that is above her head and a script that is beneath her, she utters Dolley's immortal words to the jailed traitor Aaron Burr (David Niven): "I hope all this will make you think, Aaron...
Wednesday, January 18 CBS SPECIAL: CINDERELLA (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.).* - Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical version of the glass-slipper classic written in 1957 specially for TV and starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm and Lesley Ann Warren. Repeat...
...azure ocean. It may come as he sits sipping a mai tai (assorted rums, lime, sugar and pineapple), served by a statuesque dark-haired wahine in a billowing muu muu with a blood-red anthurium in her hair. It may come even later, as he wanders along a ginger-golden beach. Somehow, everything in Hawaii seems to be soft and warm-the air, the ocean, the sand, the music and the people...