biography
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Rogers, Ginger
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originally Virginia Katherine McMath
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1911–95)
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| biography:
| Film actress, born in Independence, Missouri, USA. She made her professional debut at age 14 with Eddie Foy's vaudeville troupe, and by 1928 she was appearing with her first husband, Jack Pepper, as a vaudeville song-and-dance team. She sang with a band, appeared in short films and in Broadway musicals, and made her screen debut in Young Man in Manhattan (1930). She and Fred Astaire were not given star billing when they first danced together in Flying Down to Rio (1933), but they stole the picture and went on to adorn nine more films. She performed several non-musical roles, winning the Oscar for best actress in Kitty Foyle (1940), and in 1945 was the highest-paid performer in Hollywood. She continued in occasional films until the mid-1960s but then found a new public when she took over the lead in such musicals as Hello, Dolly! and Mame. She served as a fashion consultant for the J C Penney retail stores in the 1970s. |
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