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Occupation
  
Actress

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Ginger Rogers


Religion
  
Christian Science

Years active
  
1925–1987

Height
  
1.64 m

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Full Name
  
Virginia Katherine McMath

Born
  
July 16, 1911 (
1911-07-16
)

Resting place
  
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California

Spouse
  
William Marshall (m. 1961–1969)

Movies
  
Top Hat, Swing Time, Shall We Dance, Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee

Died
  
April 25, 1995 (aged 83) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.

Similar
  
William Marshall (bandleader), Fred Astaire, Jacques Bergerac

Ginger rogers


Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer, widely known for performing in films and RKO's musical films, partnered with Fred Astaire. She appeared on stage, as well as on radio and television, throughout much of the 20th century.

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Born in Independence, Missouri, at 100 West Moore Street, and raised in Kansas City, Rogers and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when she was nine years old. After winning a dance contest that launched a successful vaudeville career, she gained recognition as a Broadway actress for her debut stage role in Girl Crazy. This success led to a contract with Paramount Pictures, which ended after five films. Rogers had her first successful film role as a supporting actress in 42nd Street (1933). Throughout the 1930s, Rogers made 10 films with Astaire, among which were some of her biggest successes, such as Swing Time (1936) and Top Hat (1935). After two commercial failures with Astaire, Rogers began to branch out into dramatic films and comedies. Her acting was well received by critics and audiences, and she became one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s. Her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940) won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Rogers remained successful throughout the 1940s and at one point was Hollywood's highest-paid actress, but her popularity had peaked by the end of the decade. She reunited with Astaire in 1949 in the commercially successful The Barkleys of Broadway. After an unsuccessful period through the 1950s, Rogers made a successful return to Broadway in 1965, playing the lead role in Hello, Dolly!. More lead roles on Broadway followed, along with her stage directorial debut in 1985 on an off-Broadway production of Babes in Arms. Rogers also made television acting appearances until 1987. In 1992, Rogers was recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors. She died of a heart attack in 1995, at the age of 83.

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Rogers is associated with the phrase "backwards and in high heels", the title of her memoir, attributed to Bob Thaves' Frank and Ernest cartoon with the caption "Sure he [Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did... backwards and in high heels". A Republican and a devout Christian Scientist, Rogers was married five times, with all of her marriages ending in divorce; she had no children. During her long career, Rogers made 73 films, and her musical films with Fred Astaire are credited with revolutionizing their genre. Rogers was successful during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and is often considered an American icon. She ranks number 14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of female stars of classic American cinema.

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Early life

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Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath on July 16, 1911, in her mother's rented home at 100 Moore Street, Independence, Missouri. She was the only living child of Lela Emogene (née Owens; December 25, 1891 – May 25, 1977) and William Eddins McMath (May 26, 1880 – April 12, 1925) , an electrical engineer. She was of Scottish, Welsh, and English ancestry. Her mother did not want her born in a hospital, having lost a previous child there. Her parents separated shortly after she was born, but her grandparents, Wilma Saphrona (née Ball) and Walter Winfield Owens, lived nearby in Kansas City. After unsuccessfully trying to become a family again, McMath kidnapped his daughter twice. Rogers said that she never saw her natural father again. Her mother divorced her father soon thereafter.

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In 1915, Rogers moved in with her grandparents while her mother made a trip to Hollywood in an effort to get an essay she had written made into a film. Lela succeeded and continued to write scripts for Fox Studios. Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather (much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California, so he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios).

One of Rogers' young cousins, Helen, had a hard time pronouncing "Virginia", shortening it to "Badinda"; the nickname soon became "Ginga".

When "Ginga" was nine years old, her mother remarried, to John Logan Rogers. Ginger took the surname Rogers, although she was never legally adopted. They lived in Fort Worth. Her mother became a theater critic for a local newspaper, the Fort Worth Record. She attended, but did not graduate from, Fort Worth's Central High School (later renamed R.L. Paschal High School).

As a teenager, Rogers thought of becoming a school teacher, but with her mother's interest in Hollywood and the theater, her early exposure to the theater increased. Waiting for her mother in the wings of the Majestic Theatre, she began to sing and dance along with the performers on stage.

Vaudeville and Broadway

Rogers' entertainment career was born one night when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in. She then entered and won a Charleston dance contest which allowed her to tour for six months, at one point in 1926 performing at an 18-month-old theater called The Craterian in Medford, Oregon. This theater honored her many years later by changing its name to the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.

At 17, Rogers married Jack Culpepper, a singer/dancer/comedian/recording artist of the day who worked under the name Jack Pepper (according to Ginger's autobiography, she knew Culpepper when she was a child, as her cousin's boyfriend). They formed a short-lived vaudeville double act known as "Ginger and Pepper". The marriage was over within months, and she went back to touring with her mother. When the tour got to New York City, she stayed, getting radio singing jobs and then her Broadway debut in the musical Top Speed, which opened on Christmas Day, 1929.

Within two weeks of opening in Top Speed, Rogers was chosen to star on Broadway in Girl Crazy by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Fred Astaire was hired to help the dancers with their choreography. Her appearance in Girl Crazy made her an overnight star at the age of 19.

Early film roles

Rogers' first movie roles were in a trio of short films made in 1929—Night in the Dormitory, A Day of a Man of Affairs, and Campus Sweethearts. In 1930, she was signed by Paramount Pictures to a seven-year contract.

Rogers soon got herself out of the Paramount contract—under which she had made five feature films at Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens—and moved with her mother to Hollywood. When she got to California, she signed a three-picture deal with Pathé Exchange. She made feature films for Warner Bros., Monogram, and Fox in 1932, and was named one of 15 WAMPAS Baby Stars. She then made a significant breakthrough as Anytime Annie in the Warner Brothers film 42nd Street (1933). She went on to make a series of films with Fox, Warner Bros. (Gold Diggers of 1933), Universal, Paramount, and RKO Radio Pictures.

1933–1939: Astaire and Rogers

Rogers was known 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), "Star Of Midnight (1935) "Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), Carefree (1938), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) was produced later at MGM. They 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.

Arlene Croce, Hermes Pan, Hannah Hyam, and John Mueller all consider Rogers to have been Astaire's finest dance partner, principally because of her ability to combine dancing skills, natural beauty, and exceptional abilities as a dramatic actress and comedian, thus truly complementing Astaire, a peerless dancer who sometimes struggled as an actor and was not considered classically handsome. The resulting song and dance partnership enjoyed a unique credibility in the eyes of audiences.

Of the 33 partnered dances Rogers performed with Astaire, Croce, and Mueller have highlighted the infectious spontaneity of her performances in the comic numbers "I'll Be Hard to Handle" from Roberta, "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" from Follow the Fleet, and "Pick Yourself Up" from Swing Time. They also point to the use Astaire made of her remarkably flexible back in classic romantic dances such as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from Roberta, "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat, and "Let's Face the Music and Dance" from Follow the Fleet.

Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his collaborator Hermes Pan, both have acknowledged Rogers's input and have also testified to her consummate professionalism, even during periods of intense strain, as she tried to juggle her many other contractual film commitments with the punishing rehearsal schedules of Astaire, who made at most two films in any one year. In 1986, shortly before his death, Astaire remarked, "All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn't do it, but of course they could. So they always cried. All except Ginger. No no, Ginger never cried".

John Mueller summed up Rogers's abilities as: "Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners, not because she was superior to others as a dancer, but, because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began ... the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable".

According to Astaire, when they were first teamed together in Flying Down to Rio, "Ginger had never danced with a partner before. She faked it an awful lot. She couldn't tap and she couldn't do this and that ... but Ginger had style and talent and improved as she went along. She got so that after a while everyone else who danced with me looked wrong." Author Dick Richards, in his book Ginger: Salute to a Star, quoted Astaire saying to Raymond Rohauer, curator at the New York Gallery of Modern Art, "Ginger was brilliantly effective. She made everything work for her. Actually she made things very fine for both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success." When asked who his favorite dancing partner was by British TV interviewer Michael Parkinson on Parkinson in 1976, Astaire said "Excuse me, I must say Ginger was certainly the one. You know, the most effective partner I had. Everyone knows. That was a whole other thing what we did...I just want to pay a tribute to Ginger because we did so many pictures together and believe me it was a value to have that girl...she had it! She was just great!"

In her classic 1930s musicals with Astaire, Ginger Rogers, co-billed with him, was paid less than Fred, the creative force behind the dances, who also received 10% of the profits. She was also paid less than many of the supporting "farceurs" billed beneath her, in spite of her much more central role in the films' great financial successes. This was personally grating to her and had effects upon her relationships at RKO, especially with director Mark Sandrich, whose purported disrespect of Rogers prompted a sharp letter of reprimand from producer Pandro Berman, which she deemed important enough to publish in her autobiography. Rogers fought hard for her contract and salary rights and for better films and scripts.

After 15 months apart and with RKO facing bankruptcy, the studio paired Fred and Ginger for another movie titled Carefree, but it lost money. Next came The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, but the serious plot and tragic ending resulted in the worst box-office receipts of any of their films. This was driven not by diminished popularity, but by the hard 1930s economic reality. The production costs of musicals, always significantly more costly than regular features, continued to increase at a much faster rate than admissions.

1933–1939: Rogers without Astaire

Both before and immediately after her dancing and acting partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Rogers starred in a number of successful nonmusical films. Stage Door (1937) demonstrated her dramatic capacity, as the loquacious yet vulnerable girl next door, a tough-minded, theatrical hopeful, opposite Katharine Hepburn. Successful comedies included Vivacious Lady (1938) with James Stewart, Fifth Avenue Girl (1939), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family, and Bachelor Mother (1939), with David Niven, in which she played a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby.

In 1934, Rogers sued Sylvia of Hollywood for $100K for defamation. Sylvia, Hollywood's fitness guru and radio personality, had claimed that Rogers was on Sylvia's radio show when, in fact, she was not.

On March 5, 1939, Rogers starred in "Single Party Going East", an episode of Silver Theater on CBS radio.

1940s

In 1941, Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in 1940's Kitty Foyle. She enjoyed considerable success during the early 1940s, and was RKO's hottest property during this period. In Roxie Hart (1942), based on the same play which served as the template for the later musical Chicago, Rogers played a wisecracking wife on trial for a murder her husband committed.

In the neorealist Primrose Path (1940), directed by Gregory La Cava, she played a prostitute's daughter trying to avoid the fate of her mother. Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men; I'll Be Seeing You (1944), with Joseph Cotten; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor (1942), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period. This film featured a performance by Rogers's own real mother, Lela, playing her film mother.

Becoming a free agent, Rogers made hugely successful films with other studios in the mid-'40s, including Tender Comrade (1943), Lady in the Dark (1944), and Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), and became the highest-paid performer in Hollywood. However, by the end of the decade, her film career had peaked. Arthur Freed reunited her with Fred Astaire in The Barkleys of Broadway in 1949, when Judy Garland was unable to appear in the role that was to have reunited her with her Easter Parade co-star.

Late career

Rogers's film career entered a period of gradual decline in the 1950s, as parts for older actresses became more difficult to obtain, but she still scored with some solid movies. She starred in Storm Warning (1950) with Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, the noir, anti-Ku Klux Klan film by Warner Bros., and in Monkey Business (1952) with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe, directed by Howard Hawks. In the same year, she also starred in We're Not Married!, also featuring Marilyn Monroe, and in Dreamboat. She played the female lead in Tight Spot (1955), a mystery thriller, with Edward G. Robinson. After a series of unremarkable films, she scored a great popular success on Broadway in 1965, playing Dolly Levi in the long-running Hello, Dolly!.

In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire; she presented him with a special Academy Award in 1950, and they were copresenters of individual Academy Awards in 1967, during which they elicited a standing ovation when they came on stage in an impromptu dance. In 1969, she had the lead role in another long-running popular production, Mame, from the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End of London, arriving for the role on the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 from New York City. Her docking there occasioned the maximum of pomp and ceremony at Southampton. She became the highest-paid performer in the history of the West End up to that time. The production ran for 14 months and featured a royal command performance for Queen Elizabeth II.

From the 1950s onwards, Rogers made occasional appearances on television, even substituting for a vacationing Hal March on The $64,000 Question. In the later years of her career, she made guest appearances in three different series by Aaron Spelling: The Love Boat (1979), Glitter (1984), and Hotel (1987), which was her final screen appearance as an actress. In 1985, Rogers fulfilled a long-standing wish to direct when she directed the musical Babes in Arms off-Broadway in Tarrytown, New York, at 74 years old. Interviews can be found in the New York Times under "Ginger Rogers directs". It was produced by Michael Lipton and Robert Kennedy of Kennedy Lipton Productions. The production starred Broadway talents Donna Theodore, Carleton Carpenter, James Brennan, Randy Skinner, Karen Ziemba, Dwight Edwards, and Kim Morgan. It is also noted in her autobiography Ginger, My Story.

The Kennedy Center honored Ginger Rogers in December 1992. This event, which was shown on television, was somewhat marred when Astaire's widow, Robyn Smith, who permitted clips of Astaire dancing with Rogers to be shown for free at the function itself, was unable to come to terms with CBS Television for broadcast rights to the clips (all previous rights-holders having donated broadcast rights gratis).

For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Rogers has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6772 Hollywood Boulevard.

Personal life

Rogers was an only child, and throughout her life she maintained a close relationship with her mother, Lela Rogers, who was a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, and movie producer. Her mother was also one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps, was a founder of the successful "Hollywood Playhouse" for aspiring actors and actresses on the RKO set, and a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.

Rogers and her mother had an extremely close professional relationship, as well. Lela Rogers was credited with many pivotal contributions to her daughter's early successes in New York and in Hollywood, and gave her much assistance in contract negotiations with RKO.

On March 29, 1929, Rogers married for the first time at age 17 to her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper). They divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. Ginger dated Mervyn LeRoy in 1932, but they ended the relationship and remained friends until his death in 1986. In 1934, she married actor Lew Ayres (1908–96). They divorced seven years later.

In 1943, Rogers married her third husband, Jack Briggs, who was a U.S. Marine. Upon his return from World War II, Briggs showed no interest in continuing his incipient Hollywood career. They divorced in 1949. In 1953, she married Jacques Bergerac, a French actor 16 years her junior, whom she met on a trip to Paris. A lawyer in France, he came to Hollywood with her and became an actor. They divorced in 1957. Her fifth and final husband was director and producer William Marshall. They married in 1961 and divorced in 1971, after his bouts with alcohol and the financial collapse of their joint film production company in Jamaica.

Rogers was lifelong friends with actresses Lucille Ball and Bette Davis. She appeared with Ball in an episode of Here's Lucy on November 22, 1971, in which Rogers danced the Charleston for the first time in many years. Rogers starred in one of the earliest films co-directed and co-scripted by a woman, Wanda Tuchock's Finishing School (1934). Rogers maintained a close friendship with her cousin, writer/socialite Phyllis Fraser, but was not Rita Hayworth's natural cousin, as has been reported. Hayworth's maternal uncle, Vinton Hayworth, was married to Rogers's maternal aunt, Jean Owens.

She was raised a Christian Scientist and remained a lifelong adherent. She devoted a great deal of time in her autobiography to the importance of her faith throughout her career. Rogers was a lifelong member of the Republican Party.

Rogers's mother died in 1977. Rogers remained at the 4-Rs (Rogers's Rogue River Ranch) until 1990, when she sold the property and moved to nearby Medford, Oregon.

The City of Independence, Missouri designated the birth home of Ginger Rogers an Historic Landmark Property in 1994. On July 16, 1994, Ginger and her secretary Roberta Olden visited Independence, Missouri to appear at the Ginger Rogers' Day celebration presented by the city. Ginger was present when mayor Ron Stewart affixed an Historic Landmark Property plaque to the front of the house where she was born on July 16, 1911. She signed over 2,000 autographs at this event. The home is currently being restored and will be open to the public in 2018. An annual Ginger Rogers Day Festival is held in July in Independence. The current owner of the house is Three Trails Cottages, Inc. and the museum director is Marge Padgitt. Plans have begun for a second building to accommodate Ginger Rogers memorabilia.

She made her last public appearance on March 18, 1995, when she received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award. For many years, Rogers regularly supported, and held in-person presentations, at the Craterian Theater, in Medford, where she had performed in 1926 as a vaudevillian. The theater was comprehensively restored in 1997 and posthumously renamed in her honor as the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.

Death

Rogers spent winters in Rancho Mirage and summers in Medford. She continued making public appearances (chiefly at award shows) until suffering a stroke that left her partially paralyzed and dependent on a wheelchair. Despite her stroke, she was a practitioner of Christian Science and never saw a doctor or went to a hospital. Her last husband, William Marshall, would trick Rogers to take insulin since she was diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic at age 22. He stated he was injecting vitamins and she took the daily injections and knew it was insulin after the divorce. She lapsed into a diabetic coma and she was hospitalized where she suffered a stroke and complications of lifelong non compliance with her diabetes. She died at her Rancho Mirage home on April 25, 1995, at the age of 83. An autopsy concluded that the cause of death was a heart attack. She was cremated and her ashes interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California, with her mother's remains.

Portrayals of Rogers

  • Likenesses of Astaire and Rogers, apparently painted over from the "Cheek to Cheek" dance in Top Hat, are in the "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" section of The Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968).
  • Rogers's image is one of many famous women's images of the 1930s and '40s featured on the bedroom wall in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, a gallery of magazine cuttings pasted on the wall created by Anne and her sister Margot while hiding from the Nazis. When the house became a museum, the gallery the Frank sisters created was preserved under glass.
  • Ginger The Musical by Robert Kennedy and Paul Becker which Ginger Rogers approved and was to direct on Broadway the year of her death is currently in negotiations for the 2016-17 Broadway season. Marshall Mason directed its first production in 2001 starring Donna McKechnie and Nili Bassman and was choreographed by Randy Skinner.
  • A musical about the life of Rogers, entitled Backwards in High Heels, premiered in Florida in early 2007.
  • Rogers was the heroine of a novel, Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak (1942, by Lela E. Rogers), in which "the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress, but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person." It is part of a series known as "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941–1947 that featured a film actress as heroine.
  • The Dancing House in Prague (Czech: Tancici dum), sometimes known as Ginger and Fred, was designed by American architect Frank Gehry and inspired by the dancing of Astaire and Rogers.
  • In the 1981 film Pennies From Heaven, Bernadette Peters dances with Steve Martin in a scene which uses Fred and Ginger's "Let's Face the Music and Dance" sequence (from 1936's Follow the Fleet) as its inspiration.
  • Federico Fellini's film Ginger and Fred centers on two aging Italian impersonators of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Rogers sued the production and the distributor when the film was released in the U.S. for misappropriation and infringement of her public personality. Her claims were dismissed, as according to the judgement, the film only obliquely related to Astaire and her.
  • Filmography

    Actress
    1987
    Hotel (TV Series) as
    Natalie Trent
    - Hail and Farewell (1987) - Natalie Trent
    1984
    Glitter (TV Series) as
    Margaret Davis
    - In Tennis, Love Means Nothing (1984) - Margaret Davis
    1979
    The Love Boat (TV Series) as
    Stella Logan
    - The Love Lamp Is Lit/Critical Success/Rent a Family/Take My Boyfriend, Please/The Man in Her Life: Part 2 (1979) - Stella Logan
    - The Love Lamp Is Lit/Critical Success/Rent a Family/Take My Boyfriend, Please/The Man in Her Life: Part 1 (1979) - Stella Logan
    1971
    Here's Lucy (TV Series) as
    Ginger Rogers
    - Ginger Rogers Comes to Tea (1971) - Ginger Rogers
    1965
    Harlow as
    Mama Jean Bello
    1965
    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) as
    Helen
    - Terror Island (1965) - Helen
    1965
    Cinderella (TV Movie) as
    Queen
    1964
    Quick, Let's Get Married as
    Madame Rinaldi
    1963
    The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) as
    Sally Swinger / Scarlett O'Fever / Mrs. Cavendish
    - The Fastest Goon in the West (1964) - Sally Swinger
    - Pop Is a Weasel (1963) - Scarlett O'Fever
    - Come to Me, My Melon-Headed Baby (1963) - Mrs. Cavendish
    1963
    Vacation Playhouse (TV Series) as
    Elizabeth Harcourt / Margaret Harcourt
    - A Love Affair Just for Three (1963) - Elizabeth Harcourt / Margaret Harcourt
    1961
    The Ginger Rogers Show (TV Movie) as
    Elizabeth Harcourt / Margaret Harcourt
    1960
    Zane Grey Theatre (TV Series) as
    Angie Cartwright
    - Never Too Late (1960) - Angie Cartwright
    1959
    The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV Series) as
    Kay Neilson
    - The Tender Shoots (1959) - Kay Neilson
    1959
    Musical Playhouse (TV Series) as
    Lisa Marvin
    - Carissima (1959) - Lisa Marvin
    1959
    The Milton Berle Show (TV Series)
    - Episode dated 6 May 1959 (1959)
    1957
    Oh, Men! Oh, Women! as
    Mildred Turner
    1956
    Teenage Rebel as
    Nancy Fallon
    1956
    The First Traveling Saleslady as
    Miss Rose Gillray
    1955
    Tight Spot as
    Sherry Conley
    1954
    Black Widow as
    Carlotta 'Lottie' Marin
    1954
    Producers' Showcase (TV Series)(segment 'Red Peppers) (segment Still Life) (segment Shadow Play')
    - Tonight at 8:30 (1954) - (segment 'Red Peppers) (segment Still Life) (segment Shadow Play')
    1954
    Twist of Fate as
    'Johnny' Victor
    1953
    Forever Female as
    Beatrice Page
    1952
    Monkey Business as
    Mrs. Edwina Fulton
    1952
    Dreamboat as
    Gloria Marlowe
    1952
    We're Not Married! as
    Ramona Gladwyn
    1951
    The Groom Wore Spurs as
    'A.J.' Furnival
    1951
    Storm Warning as
    Marsha Mitchell
    1950
    Perfect Strangers as
    Terry Scott
    1949
    The Barkleys of Broadway as
    Dinah Barkley
    1947
    It Had to Be You as
    Victoria Stafford
    1946
    Magnificent Doll as
    Dolly Payne Madison
    1946
    Heartbeat as
    Arlette Lafron
    1945
    Week-End at the Waldorf as
    Irene Malvern
    1944
    I'll Be Seeing You as
    Mary Marshall
    1944
    Lady in the Dark as
    Liza Elliott
    1943
    Tender Comrade as
    Jo Jones
    1942
    Once Upon a Honeymoon as
    Kathie O'Hara / Katherine Butt-Smith / Baroness Katherine Von Luber
    1942
    The Major and the Minor as
    Susan Applegate
    1942
    Tales of Manhattan as
    Diane
    1942
    Roxie Hart as
    Roxie Hart
    1941
    Tom, Dick and Harry as
    Janie
    1940
    Kitty Foyle as
    Kitty Foyle
    1940
    Lucky Partners as
    Jean Newton
    1940
    Primrose Path as
    Ellie May Adams
    1939
    Fifth Avenue Girl as
    Mary Grey
    1939
    Bachelor Mother as
    Polly Parrish
    1939
    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as
    Irene Castle
    1938
    Carefree as
    Amanda Cooper
    1938
    Having Wonderful Time as
    Teddy Shaw
    1938
    Vivacious Lady as
    Francey Morgan
    1937
    Stage Door as
    Jean Maitland
    1937
    Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 12 (Documentary short) as
    Ginger Rogers
    1937
    Shall We Dance as
    Linda Keene
    1936
    Swing Time as
    Penny Carroll
    1936
    Follow the Fleet as
    Sherry Martin
    1935
    In Person as
    Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax
    1935
    Top Hat as
    Dale Tremont
    1935
    Star of Midnight as
    Donna Mantin
    1935
    Roberta as
    Lizzie Gatz aka Tanka Scharwenka
    1934
    Romance in Manhattan as
    Sylvia Dennis
    1934
    The Gay Divorcee as
    Mimi Glossop
    1934
    Change of Heart as
    Madge Rountree
    1934
    Finishing School as
    Cecilia 'Pony' Ferris
    1934
    Twenty Million Sweethearts as
    Peggy Cornell
    1934
    Upperworld as
    Lilly Linda
    1934
    Hollywood on Parade No. B-7 (Short)
    1933
    Flying Down to Rio as
    Honey Hale
    1933
    Sitting Pretty as
    Dorothy
    1933
    Chance at Heaven as
    Marge Harris
    1933
    Rafter Romance as
    Mary Carroll
    1933
    A Shriek in the Night as
    Pat Morgan
    1933
    Don't Bet on Love as
    Molly Gilbert
    1933
    Professional Sweetheart as
    Glory Eden
    1933
    Gold Diggers of 1933 as
    Fay Fortune
    1933
    Broadway Bad as
    Flip Daly
    1933
    42nd Street as
    Ann Lowell
    1932
    You Said a Mouthful as
    Alice Brandon
    1932
    Hat Check Girl as
    Jessie King
    1932
    The Thirteenth Guest as
    Lela / Marie Morgan
    1932
    Hollywood on Parade (Short)
    1932
    The Tenderfoot as
    Ruth Weston
    1932
    Carnival Boat as
    Honey
    1932
    Running Hollywood (Short) as
    Ginger Rogers
    1931
    Suicide Fleet as
    Sally
    1931
    The Tip-Off as
    Baby Face
    1931
    Honor Among Lovers as
    Doris Brown
    1930
    Follow the Leader as
    Mary Brennan
    1930
    Office Blues (Short) as
    Miss Gravis
    1930
    Queen High as
    Polly Rockwell
    1930
    The Sap from Syracuse as
    Ellen Saunders
    1930
    Young Man of Manhattan as
    Puff Randolph
    1930
    Campus Sweethearts (Short)
    1930
    A Night in a Dormitory (Short) as
    Ginger Rogers
    1929
    A Day of a Man of Affairs (Short)
    Soundtrack
    2020
    Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Children of the Royal Sun (2020) - (performer: "Isn't This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)")
    2016
    Conversations with Tango (Short) (performer: "Cheek to Cheek")
    2016
    Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (TV Mini Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Spring (2016) - (performer: "Pick Yourself Up" - uncredited)
    2010
    Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (TV Mini Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Brother, Can You Spare a Dream?: 1929-1941 (2010) - (performer: "Pick Yourself Up" - uncredited)
    2009
    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (Video documentary) (performer: "Carioca" (uncredited), "I Won't Dance" (uncredited), "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket")
    2008
    Me and Orson Welles (performer: "Let Yourself Go")
    2008
    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Carioca", "Waltz in Swing Time" - uncredited)
    2007
    Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.7 (2007) - (performer: "Cheek to Cheek")
    1999
    American Masters (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (1999) - (performer: "A Fine Romance" - uncredited)
    1996
    Chicago Hope (TV Series) (1 episode)
    - Back to the Future (1996) - ("Pick Yourself Up")
    1994
    That's Entertainment! III (Documentary) (performer: "Swing Trot" (1948) - uncredited)
    1991
    Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" - uncredited)
    1991
    Great Performances (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - The Fred Astaire Songbook (1991) - (performer: "They Can't Take That Away from Me", "Isn't It a Lovely Day", "(This Is) A Fine Romance", "Lovely to Look At", "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", "Cheek to Cheek", "Let's Face the Music and Dance")
    1990
    The Wonder Years (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - The Cost of Living (1990) - (performer: "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" - uncredited)
    1988
    Rain Man (performer: "Bouncin' the Blues" - uncredited)
    1985
    That's Dancing! (Documentary) (performer: "Night And Day", "Pick Yourself Up")
    1983
    The 37th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Somebody Loves Me", "Off Thee I Sing", "Mine", "Embraceable You", "But Not for Me")
    1982
    FDR (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "We're in the Money")
    1981
    AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire (1981) - (performer: "The Carioca", "The Continental")
    1980
    Gala de l'Unicef (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Le Moulin Rouge reçoit l'Unicef (1980) - (performer: "J'ai ta Main")
    1979
    The Love Boat (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - The Love Lamp Is Lit/Critical Success/Rent a Family/Take My Boyfriend, Please/The Man in Her Life: Part 2 (1979) - (performer: "Love Will Keep Us Together")
    1977
    All You Need Is Love (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Always Chasing Rainbows: Tin Pan Alley (1977) - (performer: "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" - uncredited)
    1976
    Boys of the Slums (performer: "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" - uncredited)
    1976
    That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary) (performer: "Bouncin' The Blues" (1948) - uncredited)
    1975
    Brother Can You Spare a Dime (Documentary) (performer: "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" (1933))
    1974
    Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Cheek to Cheek")
    1974
    That's Entertainment! (Documentary) (performer: "Swing Trot" (1949) (Outtake), "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (1937) - uncredited)
    1971
    The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #7.14 (1971) - (performer: "Too Marvelous for Words", "That's How Young I Feel", "Ain't She Sweet", "Yes Sir! That's My Baby", "Brazil", "Change Partners", "Sing, Sing, Sing", "Dancing", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" - uncredited)
    1967
    Bonnie and Clyde (performer: "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" - uncredited)
    1965
    Cinderella (TV Movie) (performer: "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" (reprise))
    1963
    Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - The Fabulous Musicals (1963) - (performer: "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)", "Carioca" - uncredited)
    1961
    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - The Dinah Shore Show (1961) - (performer: "I Could Have Danced All Night", "Some of These Days", "The Story of Alice", "Ain't We Got Fun" - uncredited)
    1960
    The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Ginger Rogers, Tony Bennett, Erroll Garner, Henny Youngman, the Ralph Sharon Quartet (1960) - (performer: "Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries", "This Could Be the Start Of Something Big" - uncredited)
    1958
    Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Ginger Rogers, Tony Bennett, Buddy Hackett (1958) - (performer: "The French Lesson" - uncredited)
    1952
    Monkey Business (performer: "The Whiffenpoof Song" - uncredited)
    1952
    Dreamboat (performer: "You'll Never Know" - uncredited)
    1949
    The Barkleys of Broadway ("La Marseillaise" (1792), uncredited) / (performer: "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (1937), "Swing Trot" (1949) (uncredited), "You'd Be Hard to Replace" (1949) (uncredited), "Bouncin' the Blues" (1949) (uncredited), "My One and Only Highland Fling" (1949) (uncredited), "Week-End in the Country" (1949) (uncredited), "Manhattan Downbeat" (1949) (uncredited))
    1946
    Heartbeat (performer: "Can You Guess ?" (The Heartbeat Song))
    1944
    Lady in the Dark (performer: "Glamour Dream", "Girl of the Moment", "It Looks Like Liza", "Wedding Dream", "Suddenly It's Spring", "The Woman at the Altar", "Circus Dream", "The Greatest Show on Earth", "The Best Years of His Life", "The Saga of Jenny", "Childhood Dream", "My Ship")
    1943
    Tender Comrade (performer: "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" (1913) - uncredited)
    1942
    The Major and the Minor (performer: "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" - uncredited)
    1942
    Roxie Hart (performer: "Black Bottom")
    1941
    Tom, Dick and Harry (performer: "There's No Place Like Home' - uncredited)
    1940
    Kitty Foyle (performer: "I'll See You in My Dreams" (1924), "Three Little Words" (1930) - uncredited)
    1940
    Lucky Partners ("Comin' Thro' the Rye", uncredited)
    1939
    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ("Cecile Waltz", "Nights of Gladness", "Missouri Waltz", uncredited) / (performer: "Only When You're in My Arms" (1939), "The Yama Yama Man" (uncredited), "King Chanticleer" (uncredited), "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" (uncredited), "The Syncopated Walk" (uncredited), "While They Were Dancing Around" (uncredited), "Too Much Mustard (Tres Moutarde)" (uncredited), "Rose Room" (uncredited), "Tres Jolie" (uncredited), "Little Brown Jug" (uncredited), "Dengozo" (uncredited), "You're Here and I'm Here" (uncredited), "Chicago" (uncredited), "Hello, Frisco, Hello" (uncredited), "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" (uncredited), "Take Me Back to New York Town" (uncredited), "La Marseillaise" (uncredited))
    1938
    Carefree (performer: "I Used To Be Color Blind" (1938), "The Yam" (1938), "Change Partners" (1938) - uncredited)
    1938
    Vivacious Lady (performer: "You'll Be Reminded of Me" (1938))
    1937
    Stage Door (performer: "Put Your Heart Into Your Feet and Dance" - uncredited)
    1937
    Shall We Dance (performer: "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" (1937), "Shall We Dance" (1937), "They All Laughed" (1937) - uncredited)
    1936
    Swing Time ("The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (1936), uncredited) / (performer: "Pick Yourself Up" (1936), "Waltz in Swing Time" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (1936), "Never Gonna Dance" (1936) - uncredited)
    1936
    Follow the Fleet (performer: "Let Yourself Go", "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket", "Let's Face the Music and Dance" - uncredited)
    1935
    In Person (performer: "Don't Mention Love to Me", "Got a New Lease on Life", "Out of Sight, Out of Mind")
    1935
    Top Hat (performer: "Isn't This a Lovely Day (to Be Caught in the Rain)?" (1935), "Cheek to Cheek" (1935), "The Piccolino" (1935) - uncredited)
    1935
    Roberta (performer: "Let's Begin" (1933), "I'll Be Hard to Handle" (1933), "I Won't Dance" (1934), "Lovely to Look At" (1935), "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1933) - uncredited)
    1934
    The Gay Divorcee (performer: "Night and Day" (1932), "The Continental" (1934))
    1934
    Finishing School (performer: "Virginia's Gonna Get Fried", "Never Hit Your Grandma with a Shovel" - uncredited)
    1934
    Twenty Million Sweethearts ("I'll String Along with You" (1934), uncredited) / (performer: "Out for No Good" (1934) - uncredited)
    1934
    Upperworld (performer: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", "Shake Your Powder Puff" - uncredited)
    1933
    Flying Down to Rio (performer: "Music Makes Me" (1933), "Carioca" (1933) - uncredited)
    1933
    Sitting Pretty (performer: "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?", "You're Such a Comfort to Me", "Good Morning Glory", "There's a Bluebird at My Window" - uncredited)
    1933
    Chance at Heaven (performer: "London Bridge is Falling Down" - uncredited)
    1933
    Professional Sweetheart (performer: "My Imaginary Sweetheart" - uncredited)
    1933
    Gold Diggers of 1933 (performer: "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" - uncredited)
    1933
    42nd Street (performer: "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" (1932) - uncredited)
    1932
    Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 (Short) (performer: "The Girl Who Used to be You")
    1932
    Carnival Boat (performer: "How I Could Go for You" (1932) - uncredited)
    1931
    Suicide Fleet (performer: "Dream Kisses" (1927) - uncredited)
    1930
    Office Blues (Short) (performer: "We Can't Get Along", "Dear Sir" - uncredited)
    1930
    Queen High (performer: "It Seems to Me")
    1930
    Young Man of Manhattan (performer: "I've Got 'It' But 'It' Don't Do Me No Good" - uncredited)
    1930
    A Night in a Dormitory (Short) (performer: "Why Can't You Love That Way?", "I Love a Man in a Uniform" - uncredited)
    Thanks
    1981
    Reagan's Way: Pathway to the Presidency (TV Movie documentary) (grateful thanks)
    Self
    1994
    That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen (Video documentary) as
    Self
    1993
    Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1979
    This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary) as
    Self / Self - Filmed tribute
    - Ann Miller (1993) - Self
    - Alice Faye (1984) - Self
    - Julia McKenzie (1981) - Self - Filmed tribute
    - Charles Aznavour (1979) - Self
    1992
    The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special) as
    Self - Honoree
    1992
    CBS This Morning (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 7 December 1992 (1992) - Self
    1992
    The 9th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV Special) as
    Self
    1991
    Pebble Mill at One (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Episode dated 18 November 1991 (1991) - Self - Guest
    1991
    Wogan (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Wogan with Selina Scott (1991) - Self
    1991
    The Home Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 5 November 1991 (1991) - Self
    1991
    Burt Reynolds' Conversation With (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.1 (1991) - Self
    1990
    Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1987
    Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Howard's Way (1987) - Self
    - Dark Victory (1987) - Self
    - A Woman's Lot (1987) - Self
    - Let's Face the Music and Dance (1987) - Self
    1987
    ABC News Nightline (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Fred Astaire Remembered (1987) - Self
    1987
    Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (TV Special documentary) as
    Self
    1986
    Texas 150: A Celebration (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1986
    AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) as
    Self
    - AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Billy Wilder (1986) - Self
    1986
    The 58th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Audience Member
    1986
    Great Performances (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Irving Berlin's America (1986) - Self
    1986
    Buonasera Raffaella (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 20 February 1986 (1986) - Self
    1985
    Night of 100 Stars II (TV Special) as
    Self
    1984
    Hollywood '84 (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.3 (1984) - Self
    - Episode #1.1 (1984) - Self
    1984
    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (Documentary) as
    Self
    1984
    The 56th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) as
    Self - Audience Member
    1983
    The 37th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Performer
    1983
    Hollywood's Private Home Movies (TV Movie documentary) as
    Archive
    1983
    The Legends of the Screen (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1965
    The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) as
    Self / Self - Guest / Self - Actress
    - Ginger Rogers, Carole Cook, Joe Flynn, Shirley Eder, Ralph Charell (1974) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Virginia Graham, Jaye P. Morgan, Carole Cook, Anna Chakrin (1972) - Self
    - Salute to Arthur and Kathryn Murray (1971) - Self
    - Presentation of the 45th Annual Gold Medal Photoplay Awards (1967) - Self
    - Jim Backus and Henny Backus, Polly Bergen, Pete Barbutti, Mia Morrell (1967) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Nanette Fabray, Xavier Cugat, Charo, Sheilah Graham, David Burns, Bruce Scott (1966) - Self - Actress
    - Ginger Rogers, Hermione Gingold, Dave Astor, Paul Dooley, Irene Dalis, Dr. Howard Rusk (1966) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Melvin Belli, Aliza Kashi, Peter Bull, Howard Storm, The Highwaymen (1965) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Basil Rathbone, Roger Williams, Lovelady Powell, Marc London (1965) - Self
    1982
    The 36th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1982
    Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series) as
    Self
    - The Film Society of Lincoln Center: A Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982) - Self
    1982
    The 2nd American Movie Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1982
    Night of 100 Stars (TV Special) as
    Self
    1982
    Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny (TV Special) as
    Self
    1981
    The Barbara Walters Summer Special (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 26 November 1981 (1981) - Self
    1981
    All-Star Salute to Mother's Day (TV Special) as
    Self
    1981
    Hour Magazine (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 29 January 1981 (1981) - Self
    1980
    The Toni Tennille Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.62 (1980) - Self
    1980
    Stars en Campagne (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1979
    Gala de l'Unicef (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Le Moulin Rouge reçoit l'Unicef (1980) - Self
    - Entrons dans l'année - Gala de l'Unicef (1979) - Self
    1980
    Horas doradas (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 3 July 1980 (1980) - Self
    1980
    Fred Astaire: Puttin' on His Top Hat (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1980
    Palmarès (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Mireille Mathieu (1980) - Self
    1980
    La nuit des Césars (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Presenter
    - 5ème nuit des Césars (1980) - Self - Presenter
    1979
    The RKO Years (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1979
    The 51st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) as
    Self - Presenter
    1978
    Bob Hope Salutes the Ohio Jubilee (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1978
    Good Morning America (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 14 June 1978 (1978) - Self
    1978
    Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #3.4 (1978) - Self
    1978
    The People's Command Performance (TV Special) as
    Self
    1971
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest / Self
    - Episode dated 2 May 1977 (1977) - Self - Guest
    - Episode dated 5 February 1976 (1976) - Self - Guest
    - Episode dated 20 October 1971 (1971) - Self
    - Episode dated 20 September 1971 (1971) - Self
    1976
    The 1976 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (TV Special) as
    Self
    1971
    The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (TV Series) as
    Self - Panelist
    - Episode dated 3 April 1976 (1976) - Self - Panelist
    - Episode dated 2 April 1976 (1976) - Self - Panelist
    - Episode dated 1 April 1976 (1976) - Self - Panelist
    - Episode dated 12 November 1971 (1971) - Self - Panelist
    - Episode dated 11 November 1971 (1971) - Self - Panelist
    - Episode dated 10 November 1971 (1971) - Self - Panelist
    - Episode dated 9 November 1971 (1971) - Self - Panelist
    1975
    At Long Last Cole (TV Special) as
    Self
    1975
    The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Lucille Ball (TV Special) as
    Self
    1974
    The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Bob Hope (TV Special) as
    Self
    1974
    ABC Late Night (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - That's Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM (1974) - Self
    1974
    The 26th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1971
    The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) as
    Self - Co-Hostess / Self - Guest / Self - Actress / ...
    1973
    Miss Universe 1973 (TV Special) as
    Self - Judge
    1973
    The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Fred Astaire (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1971
    The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #8.22 (1973) - Self
    - Episode #7.14 (1971) - Self
    1972
    Joanne Carson's VIPs (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.67 (1972) - Self
    1972
    What's My Line? (TV Series) as
    Self - Mystery Guest
    - Episode dated 14 September 1972 (1972) - Self - Mystery Guest
    1972
    The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1972
    The 29th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV Special) as
    Self
    1971
    The David Frost Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #4.71 (1971) - Self
    1971
    The Roy Leonard Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ginger Rogers (1971) - Self
    1971
    Dinah's Place (TV Series)
    - Episode dated 3 November 1971 (1971)
    1971
    The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 5 April 1971 (1971) - Self
    1969
    The Royal Variety Performance 1969 (TV Special) as
    Self
    1967
    Gypsy (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Reginald Gardiner (1967) - Self
    1967
    The 39th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1963
    The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) as
    Self - Singer
    - The Lovin' Spoonful, Ginger Rogers, Johnny Mathis, Stiller & Meara, Abbe Lane, Bob King, The Three Kims, Topo Gigio (1967) - Self - Singer
    - Episode #17.10 (1963) - Self - Singer
    1966
    The 20th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Hostess
    1954
    What's My Line? (TV Series) as
    Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Guest Panelist
    - Harry Belafonte (3) (1966) - Self - Guest Panelist
    - Carol Channing and Ginger Rogers & Lucille Ball (1965) - Self - Mystery Guest
    - Ginger Rogers (3) (1963) - Self - Mystery Guest
    - Ginger Rogers (2) (1962) - Self - Mystery Guest
    - Mike Todd & Ginger Rogers (1957) - Self - Mystery Guest
    - Ginger Rogers (1954) - Self - Mystery Guest
    1956
    Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series) as
    Self / Self - Guest
    - Nancy Ames, Ginger Rogers, Lena Horne (1965) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Alan King, Della Reese, Renee Taylor (1960) - Self
    - guest host: Ray Bolger; guest stars: Ginger Rogers, Connie Francis, The Mary Kaye Trio (1958) - Self - Guest
    - Ginger Rogers, Tony Bennett, Buddy Hackett (1958) - Self
    - Pearl Bailey, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carter (1958) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Gertrude Berg, Johnny Puleo and His Harmonica Gang, cameo by Jerry Lewis (1957) - Self - Guest
    - Ginger Rogers, Jack Carter and Johnny Mercer (1957) - Self - Guest
    - Ginger Rogers, George Sanders and Lou Carter (1957) - Self - Guest
    - Ginger Rogers, Vic Damone, Mickey & Sylvia (1957) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Phil Foster, Tennessee Ernie Ford (1956) - Self
    1962
    The Bell Telephone Hour (TV Series) as
    Self - Hostess
    - Salute to Jerome Kern (1965) - Self - Hostess
    - Shakespeare's 400th Anniversary (1964) - Self - Hostess
    - The Songs of Irving Berlin (1962) - Self - Hostess
    1965
    The 17th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self
    1965
    ABC's Nightlife (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.136 (1965) - Self
    - Episode #1.112 (1965) - Self
    1965
    Girl Talk (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 23 June 1965 (1965) - Self
    1965
    The 37th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Audience Member
    1964
    The Hollywood Palace (TV Series) as
    Self - Singer / Self
    - Guest Host: Phil Harris; guest stars: Ginger Rogers, The McGuire Sisters, Bill Dana, Gary Crosby, The Merkys, The Jubilee Four, Dwight Moore & His Mongrels (1964) - Self - Singer
    - Episode #1.3 (1964) - Self
    1963
    The 35th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1962
    Password (TV Series) as
    Self - Celebrity Contestant
    - Ginger Rogers vs. Orson Bean (evening show) (1962) - Self - Celebrity Contestant
    1959
    I've Got a Secret (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Episode dated 26 February 1962 (1962) - Self - Guest
    - Episode dated 29 July 1959 (1959) - Self - Guest
    1958
    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - The Dinah Shore Show (1961) - Self
    - Episode #3.25 (1959) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Mike Nichols, Elaine May (1958) - Self
    1961
    The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Audience Member
    1956
    The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) as
    Self / Self - Guest / Ginger Peachy
    - The Bob Hope Buick Sports Awards Show (1961) - Self - Guest
    - Potomac Madness (1960) - Self
    - Perry Como, Ginger Rogers (1960) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Tony Randall, Wally Cox, Troy Donahue, Gina Lollobrigida, Millie Perkins (1960) - Self
    - Jack Benny, Ginger Rogers, Jerry Colonna, Dodie Stevens and Milton Berle (1959) - Self
    - Mickey Mantle, Peggy King, Hedda Hopper, Ginger Rogers, Jerry Colonna (1956) - Self / Ginger Peachy
    1961
    The Annual National Sports Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1961
    The National Sports Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1957
    The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series) as
    Self / Self - SInger / Self - Guest
    - Ginger Rogers, Tony Bennett, Erroll Garner, Henny Youngman, the Ralph Sharon Quartet (1960) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers, Ingemar Johansson, Steve Lawrence (1959) - Self - SInger
    - Ginger Rogers, Lou Costello, The Hi-Lo's, The Harlem Globetrotters (1957) - Self - Guest
    - Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Phil Harris, the Andrews Sisters, Jonathan Winters, Mel Brandt (1957) - Self
    1959
    Premier Khrushchev in the USA (Documentary) as
    Self
    1959
    Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) as
    Self
    - R (1959) - Self
    1959
    The 31st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Audience Member
    1959
    Accent on Love (TV Special) as
    Self
    1959
    The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #2.16 (1959) - Self
    1958
    The Arthur Murray Party (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #9.9 (1958) - Self
    1958
    Person to Person (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #5.27 (1958) - Self
    1957
    The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ginger Rogers Show (1957) - Self
    1957
    Playhouse 90 (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Around the World in 90 Minutes (1957) - Self
    1956
    Climax! (TV Series) as
    Self
    - The Louella Parsons Story (1956) - Self
    1955
    The $64, 000 Question (TV Series) as
    Substitute Host
    1953
    Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Great Entertainers (Short) as
    Self
    1953
    The 25th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1952
    A Sporting Oasis (Documentary short) as
    Self
    1951
    The Ken Murray Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Ginger Rogers/Robert Young/Buddy Rogers/Charles Coburn/Morton Downey/William Gargan/Susan Peters/Vice President Alben Barkley (1951) - Self
    1950
    Screen Snapshots: The Great Showman (Short) as
    Self
    1944
    Battle Stations (Documentary short) as
    Narrator (voice)
    1943
    Show-Business at War (Documentary short) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1942
    Safeguarding Military Information (Documentary short) as
    Soldier's girlfriend (uncredited)
    1936
    Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 (Documentary short) as
    Self - Observer
    1934
    Hollywood Newsreel (Short) as
    Self (as Ginger)
    1933
    Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (Short) as
    Self
    1932
    Screen Snapshots (Documentary short) as
    Self
    1932
    Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 (Short) as
    Self
    Archive Footage
    2022
    Outsiders (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #7.39 (2022) - Self
    2022
    Lucy and Desi (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2021
    CBS News Sunday Morning (TV Series) as
    Self
    - 05-09-2021 (2021) - Self
    2019
    Gloria y Eduardo, el abrazo eterno (Documentary short) as
    Self
    2018
    Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn (Documentary short) as
    Self
    2018
    Hal (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2016
    ABC News Breakfast (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 23 December 2016 (2016) - Self
    2015
    Compression (TV Series documentary)
    - Compression Monkey Business de Howard Hawks (2016)
    - Compression Black Widow de Nunnally Johnson (2015)
    2015
    Sound of Song (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - The Recording Revolution (2015) - Self
    2014
    Britain's Best Loved Double Acts (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2014
    And the Oscar Goes to... (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2013
    Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) as
    Penny Carroll / Self
    - Great Train Robbery and the Red Balloon (2014) - Penny Carroll
    - Bedazzled (2013) - Self
    2013
    Talking Pictures (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: Talking Pictures (2013) - Self
    2012
    Here's Lucy Spotlight: Lucie Arnaz (Video documentary short) as
    Clip from 'Here's Lucy'
    2012
    Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2011
    Darcey Bussell Dances Hollywood (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2010
    Astaire and Rogers Sing the Great American Songbook (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2009
    Vegas: The City the Mob Made (TV Series documentary) as
    Self - Actress
    - Las Vegas - America's Third City (2009) - Self - Actress
    2009
    1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (TV Movie documentary)
    2009
    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (Video documentary) as
    Self
    2008
    Banda sonora (TV Series) as
    Dale Tremont
    - Episode #3.12 (2008) - Dale Tremont
    1987
    American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
    Self / Fay
    - You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story - Part 1 (2008) - Fay
    - Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends (2007)
    - Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (1999) - Self
    - Vaudeville (1997) - Self
    - George Gershwin Remembered (1987) - Self
    2008
    Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2008
    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2008
    The Factor (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 4 January 2008 (2008) - Self
    2007
    To Each His Own Cinema (segment "Cinéma de Boulevard")
    2006
    Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm (Video documentary) as
    Self / Various roles
    2006
    Billy Wilder Speaks (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2006
    Gold Diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway Bound (Video short)
    2005
    Astaire and Rogers Sing George and Ira Gershwin (Short)
    2005
    The Naked Archaeologist (TV Series documentary) as
    Girl on Phone
    - King David (2005) - Girl on Phone
    1996
    American Experience (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 (2005) - Self
    - The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) - Self (uncredited)
    2003
    Great Performances (TV Series) as
    Self
    - From Shtetl to Swing (2005) - Self
    - The Great American Songbook (2003) - Self
    2005
    Follow the Fleet: The Origins of Those Dancing Feet (Video short)
    2005
    On Top: Inside the Success of 'Top Hat' (Video short) as
    Self
    2005
    Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again (Video short) as
    Self
    2005
    The Music from 'Shall We Dance' (Video short) as
    Self
    2005
    The Swing of Things: Swing Time Step by Step (Video documentary short) as
    Self
    2004
    Broadway: The American Musical (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Mimi Glossop
    - I Got Plenty o' Nuttin': 1929-1942 (2004) - Mimi Glossop
    2003
    The 100 Greatest Musicals (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2003
    The Dreamers as
    Dale Tremont (uncredited)
    2003
    Complicated Women (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1996
    Biography (TV Series documentary) as
    Self / Mrs. Edwina Fulton
    - Irving Berlin: An American Song (2001) - Self
    - Doris Day: It's Magic (1998)
    - Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (1996) - Mrs. Edwina Fulton
    2001
    Bourne to Dance (TV Movie documentary)
    2001
    Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1995
    Omnibus (TV Series documentary) as
    Self / Various characters
    - Fascinatin' Rhythm: The History of Tap (2001) - Self
    - Ginger Rogers: A Tribute (1995) - Self / Various characters
    2000
    72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (TV Special) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2000
    Hollywood Remembers (TV Series documentary)
    - Ginger Rogers
    1999
    ABC 2000: The Millennium (TV Movie documentary)
    1999
    The Green Mile as
    Actress in 'Top Hat' (uncredited)
    1999
    Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (TV Movie documentary) as
    Dancer
    1997
    Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1997
    Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1996
    The 68th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Memorial Tribute
    1995
    The Casting Couch (Video documentary) as
    Self - 1929 Screen Tests
    1995
    Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1995
    The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1994
    That's Entertainment! III (Documentary) as
    Performer in Clip from 'The Barkleys of Broadway' (uncredited)
    1988
    Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (TV Special) as
    Self
    1987
    Dulce Quental: Délica (Music Video)
    1987
    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life - Hosted by Johnny Carson (TV Movie) as
    Francey Morgan (clip from Vivacious Lady (1938))
    1985
    Cocoon as
    Character in film clip from 'The Gay Divorcee' (uncredited)
    1985
    The Purple Rose of Cairo as
    Dale Tremont (uncredited)
    1984
    Going Hollywood: The '30s (Documentary)
    1984
    TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (TV Special) as
    Self
    1982
    Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (TV Movie documentary) as
    Actress - 'Monkey Business' (uncredited)
    1978
    AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) as
    Actress 'Vivacious Lady' / Diane
    - AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Stewart (1980) - Actress 'Vivacious Lady' (uncredited)
    - AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (1978) - Diane (uncredited)
    1980
    Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1978
    Hollywood on Parade (Video documentary) as
    Self
    1977
    All You Need Is Love (TV Series documentary) as
    Singer
    - Always Chasing Rainbows: Tin Pan Alley (1977) - Singer
    1976
    Bob Hope's World of Comedy (TV Special) as
    Self
    1976
    That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary) as
    Clip from 'Barkleys of Broadway'
    1975
    Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television (TV Special) as
    Self
    1974
    That's Entertainment! (Documentary) as
    Clip from 'Barkleys of Broadway'
    1974
    Just One More Time (Short) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1973
    The All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing Show (TV Movie) as
    Fay
    1972
    Hollywood: The Dream Factory (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self - film clips (uncredited)
    1971
    Our American Musical Heritage (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 14 September 1971 (1971) - Self
    1970
    Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (TV Special) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1967
    Mondo Hollywood (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1967
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Hollywood (TV Movie documentary) as
    Fay - Gold Digger 1933
    1965
    The Love Goddesses (Documentary) as
    Self
    1963
    Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - The Wild and Wonderful Thirties (1964) - Self (uncredited)
    - The Fabulous Musicals (1963) - Self
    1963
    Hollywood: The Great Stars (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1945
    George White's Scandals as
    Ginger Rogers (uncredited)

    References

    Ginger Rogers Wikipedia


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