Never heard of it but will check it out.
Posted on 09/02/2023 3:42:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan
There comes a point in every classic film fan's life when you realize you underestimated Ginger Rogers. You never, of course, diminished her talent, especially as Fred Astaire's dance partner over their nine or so RKO musicals in the '30s. But it's with a slight sense of shame that you realize that she was always far more than the second half of an onscreen entity known as "Fred and Ginger".
Because her filmography provides so much evidence of her star power at a glance: Stage Door, Bachelor Mother, Primrose Path, Kitty Foyle, Roxie Hart, The Major and the Minor, I'll Be Seeing You, Storm Warning and Monkey Business taken together are evidence of a career that makes her few years as half of a dance partnership more like a footnote. Or would, if those RKO musicals hadn't been so utterly iconic, then and now.
And because Rogers did such a fine job as a screwball comedy heroine. Perhaps not as perfect as, say, Carole Lombard or Claudette Colbert, but at least as good as Irene Dunne or Jean Arthur. Rogers' persona allowed her to wisecrack and play hard to get as much as any other screwball heroine, but our collective memories of her as the fated conquest at the end of Fred Astaire's light-footed pursuit somehow overshadow this essential fact about Rogers onscreen.
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Never heard of it but will check it out.
“I did everything Fred did only backwards and in high heels.”—Ginger Rogers
And there’s nothing sexier than her singing “We’re In The Money” in Goldiggers of 1933.
My dad was a wise man...He always bought me coloring books...and it was always the old pin up (movie) ladies.
I don’t think mom ever caught on...
“That is real feminine beauty.”
Without make-up she was wholesomely pretty: She was heavily freckled, but the make-up crew covered it up for films.
RAFTER ROMANCE is better ( also a Depression sort of comedy, but grittier ) and to REALLY see her acting chops, the 1951 movie about the KKK with non-singing nor dancing Ginger Rogers and Doris Day is one heck of a Film Noir drama!
Excellent job, Rick...
As someone almost 90, I remember Ginger, Rita, Greta, Jean, Barbara, Carole, Joan, Bette, Betty, Claudette, Olivia, Lana, Ava, Hedy, Maureen, Veronica, Lauren, Katharine, Vivian, Paulette, Mary, Jane, Marlene, Jean H, Myrna, Jean A, Norma, and the many others with great affection...
I have missed seeing movies with actors & actresses...
What’s old, wrinkled and smells like ginger?
Concur.
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