Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...indirect consequences of the dance craze launched by the Castles was the Charleston, which broke out in 1925. One of the consequences of the Charleston was a series of Charleston contests which raged in all U. S. cities in 1925 and 1926. These Charleston contests bred Hollywood stars (Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard) as swamps breed mosquitoes. When little Ginger Rogers won a State Charleston contest in Dallas in November 1925, her destiny was settled...
...interludes of night-club engagements and vaudeville acts, Ginger Rogers reached Broadway as ingenue star of Girl Crazy. During the 45-week run of Girl Crazy (at $1,000 a week), Ginger Rogers made five pictures at Paramount's Astoria Studio. When Girl Crazy closed she went to Hollywood, where she has remained ever since...
...precocity was not confined to her stage career. At eleven, she played a piano solo of MacDowell's To a Wild Rose in a Fort Worth auditorium. At 17, she married a vaudeville hoofer named Edward (Jack) Culpepper. Ginger left Culpepper three months later, divorced him, married Hollywood Actor Lew Ayres in 1935, separated from him the same year. At present unattached, she lives with her mother in the highest house on Beverly Crest, in Beverly Hills...
Designed and furnished by Ginger and her mother, the Rogers house is equipped with standard Hollywood conveniences of tennis court, bird's-eye view, projection room, outdoor bath, and such eccentric Hollywood conveniences as a built-in soda fountain. Ginger enjoys making herself chocolate sodas behind the fountain, but goes around to sit properly in front of the counter to drink them. In her studio, she makes portrait sketches and sculptures...