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Ginger Rogers, 1911-1995
Born Independence, Missouri
Ginger Rogers won the Texas State Charleston Championship in 1925 at the age of fourteen and then promptly embarked on the vaudeville circuit. By 1928 she was playing the Paramount Theatre in New York City; two years later, she became a Broadway star in Girl Crazy (1930). Hollywood then beckoned, and she partnered in nine films with Fred Astaire, bringing a silvery glamour to Depression-era America in such movies as Gay Divorcee (1934) and Swing Time (1936). Other important films included Stage Door (1937) and Lady in the Dark (1944). She received a Best Actress Oscar in 1940 for Kitty Foyle.
Isamu Noguchi, 1942 |