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...Ginger Rogers has glamor, acting ability and a pair of lyric legs. But her outstanding quality as a movie star is a frank and homegrown air which both U. S. and foreign audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works...
American Girl. To say that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are well fitted to fill the Castles' dancing slippers is an understatement. Astaire and Rogers symbolize their era quite as completely as the Castles symbolized theirs. Astaire, born Austerlitz in Omaha, is eleven years younger than Vernon Castle. With his sister Adele, now Lady Cavendish, he was the top U. S. stage dancer of the 1920s. With Ginger Rogers he has been the top cinema dancer of the 1930s. In popularity, proficiency, appearance and earning capacity, Ginger Rogers is at least the equal of Irene Castle in her best...
...Ginger Rogers has one overwhelming advantage over Irene Castle: the cinema. Although she is now a worldwide legend, only a few thousand people saw Irene Castle dance. The Wartime movies which The Castles shows her making were not a tremendous success. When Rogers and Astaire first danced together in Flying Down to Rio, movie producers were still apprehensive that audiences would not be enthusiastic about full-length dances on the screen. Rogers and Astaire light-footedly kicked that apprehension into a cocked hat, and in the process (eight pictures) have grossed a total of $18,000.000 for RKO. Irene Castle...
Miss McMath. Ginger Rogers was born in Independence, Mo. on July 16, 1911, just about the time Irene Castle was starting her U. S. career. Before Ginger was born, her mother, Mrs. Lela Emogene Owens McMath, took to visiting art galleries and other prenatal pastures. She did this because she was convinced that she was about to bestow something unusual on the world, and while not sure of the effects of prenatal influences, she did not wish to miss any bets. Mrs. McMath's premonitions were confirmed. As soon as she had given birth to her daughter, she visited...
...Ginger Rogers was named Virginia Katherine McMath. Shortly after her birth, her mother separated from her electrical engineer husband, Eddins McMath, and, taking small Ginger, went to Kansas City, where she got a $9-a-week job as typist in Montgomery Ward. Thereafter Ginger's childhood was nomadic. Jobs took her mother all over the country but always nearer the movies. In 1919, Mrs. McMath, by this time divorced, married a Dallas insurance man named John Rogers. In 1922 the family moved to Fort Worth...