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Ginger Rogers, 1911-1995:
Ginger Rogers won the Texas State Charleston Championship at age fourteen and then embarked on the vaudeville circuit, chaperoned by her mother. By 1930, she had become a Broadway star in the Gershwins' "Girl Crazy." Hollywood then beckoned, and Rogers partnered in nine films with Fred Astaire, bringing the silvery glamour to Depression-era America in such movies as "Gay Divorcee," "Top Hat," and "Shall We Dance." Other films included "Stage Door," with Katharine Hepburn, and "Kitty Foyle," for which she received a Best Actress Oscar in 1940. Her friend Isamu Noguchi worked on this sculpture while interned at a wartime camp for Japanese Americans.
Isamu Noguchi, 1942 |