Ginger was ALWAYS beautiful in my opinion. She was a perfect 10 in her youth, and maintained her gorgeousness well into her later years....and aged naturally unlike stars of today who have so much work done that they look like freaks. God bless. Miss Rogers, she was the best.
I think Ginger looks wonderful. Call me when you are her age. It's very sad that people are expected to look 20 years old for the rest of their lives. Why is the beauty of a child more valued than the beauty of a woman.
Her eyes are just sparkling, its amazing. Even though she is much older she just has so much glamour about her still, she is just beautiful. Those eyes, I am so taken back by them, just like in the movies. I love to see her talk, its just like the movies as well. Lovely.
It is so interesting to see the way movie stars from the golden era used to speak English in a so refined way. The way they spoke in movies they spoke in real life. That is something lost. Ginger Roger's voice and gestures are so gracious and nice and pleasant. What an incredibly adorable person she was! I did love this interview!
Awww! What a pleasant video to watch because of Ginger Rogers! What a delightful lady! Her voice, her face, her expressions, the way she moves her eyes and forehead, smiles... everything... SOOOO charming, so adorable!! I hope nobody here say anything derrogatory about her because she was the nicest, very talented, smart, very good person! I could contemplate her face forever! Her voice.... song to the ears. Love deeply for her. She built a brilliant career!
I don't think she ever got the credit she deserved. She wanted to do "serious" work, i.e. historical characters and would often fund screen tests herself but, sadly, wasn't taken seriously. Great shame.
Such a beautiful, classy, talented lady Ms. Rogers was. She's by far one of my favorite actresses ever. I just noticed how warm and deep her voice was. Oh, and that perfect diction! Even though English is not my first language, I could understand every single word she said. Love you, Ginger, and always will!!!
Ginger is so bright, cheerful, and cogent here. Stars of her day were multi-talented professionals - kind of make our stars look like blowup dolls. She was not only beautiful and a fine dancer but vivid on screen: you can see emotions flicker across her face in a dramatic scene.
I agree; there's brilliant speech in Kitty Foyle about no one owing a thing to Kitty Foyle...except Kitty Foyle. I thought that she was deserving of the Oscar for that part, despite being up against some very stiff competition that year.
Kitty Foyle was a movie well ahead of its time. It would do well today actually. And it's a full story, with a strong beginning, middle and end with great character development. I'm so glad Ginger won the Oscar for best actress. It's my favorite Ginger Rogers movie.
Absolutely agree, "Nobody owes a thing to Kitty Foyle, except Kitty Foyle". One or two of her other movies were "avant garde". For example, "The Major and The Minor" could have been a precursor to "Lolita". Whilst I found the handling of some of the content of the 1942 film "Once Upon a Honeymoon" rather disturbing, it was an interesting (if controversial) film. You would have to wait until 1967 and Mel Brooks masterpiece "The Producers" for a real parody of Nazism. In that same year, 1942, the British Film Industry (or should I say Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) made the seminal WW2 film, "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" - giving us a glimpse of what the people of the Netherlands had to put up with when living under the Nazi jackboot. Googie Withers was the female lead in that one.
Not only is Ginger Rogers eternally beautiful and multi talented she has an equisite calm about her. Fred Astaire has said what set Ginger apart as a dance partner was she worked tirelessly and never ever complained, not once. She had a natural comedic aura as well. She seemed to see the funny side of a ironic situation. Just love her to bits.
Fred studiously avoided singling out any of his screen partners but was interviewed by our own Michael Parkinson and, I believe, was then tempted to mention her. Fred was utterly glowing about Ginger and alluded to the fact that it was Ginger who either kick-started his career or gave it a necessary boost during a lean period. "Flying Down To Rio" - 1933 - and his subsequent movies with Ginger gave his career the fillip it needed in the 1930's.
I would love to look like her as she does here...and I am younger. She is an inspiration to dancers as well as everyone. Very eloquent, classy, gifted and intelligent woman. I still love her movies. Glad she lived a long life.
Ginger is was and always will be FABULOUS!!! there isnt a woman alive today who could measure up. no starlet nor harlot with enough talent could equal her brilliance.
Beautiful Ginger Rogers.... it's so easy to get lost in her beauty and words... you almost dont realize how terrible the interviewer is... Thanks for all the beauty you have brought to this world Ginger!!
When she played opposite Katherine Hepburn in the 1937 film, "Stage Door", Hepburn was with RKO studios, Eve Arden said that their was tension between the two then, two of my Favorites! All these wonderful people are gone! She died way to soon, fantastic personality. RIP Ginger.
She would have been 78 in 1989... so considering that, I understand why she looks like a Grandmother. "The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." -- Oscar Wilde
thanks for this posting. I hope to see this. I'm glad she was also awarded for her acting. She has entertained me with her dancing and strong, positive presence .
Saw her live- Hello Dolly! She really was! My Green Tamboreen! A beautiful performance- Kitty Foyle. She proved she was the before of the all Stardust people! A river!
2emeraldeyes women of her era wore red lipstick as they aged, because they wore it when young. Lipstick only came in shades of red in the 1930s and 40s, unless you wore Tangee, which was more orange, and cheap.. sold in dime stores. My grandmother always wore red lipstick and nail polish.
What I find sad is the the focus on her looks rather than celebrating her long, productive life. Hopefully, you will not to this to yourself as you age.
Who's comparing this lovely leading irreplaceable incomparible lady to GaGa? I'll admit I haven't read all the comments on here....now I don't want to. I agree with you, Everett. GaGa fits the mold that people want today, but Ginger Rogers is timeless and classy and a legend. Crazy that people would compare the two, or Ginger to anyone of today. Only a few stars of today can compare to the legendary status that those of the past were building for themselves. Very few.
well, she was always that way--on film she was very down to earth and common sense. very confident==you had to be. watch stage door--one of her greats.
I am so fortunate to own 3 autographs from her. One is on a paperback biography, 1 on an 8x10 inscribed from the 30s, another from 1982. God Bless her always!~ She was such a class act and a great dancer in the '30s. =)
What a gracious lady! If you look up the word, self effacing, you will no doubt find Ginger Rogers picture next to it. I was born shortly after the Big War, WWII, and like so many American kids, I grew up in New York City, watching, Channel 9's, The Million Dollar Movie. Fred and Ginger were staples. I most certainly got my fill of this lovely, articulate woman. In fact, I had a terrible crush on Miss Rogers. One of the most glamorous women to grace the silver screen, and her acting terrific!
Just watch Ginger's early work. She has this fun and sassy "joie d vivre" and wicked sparkle in her eyes that was simply without equal. I think she was really before her time, doing her thing before the word "women's lib" was ever invented. I remember her famous line: "If you think Fred Astair's dancing was hard, just try it in high heels, backwards."
I suspect that she did have a little bit of "work" to refresh her face but generally she looks as though she grew old as women should. Always glamorous and sassy in a calm kind of way. Didn't yack on about her sex life and probably knew how to keep a confidence. How different it is today?
Laura Barber she was a devout Christian Scientist. She never had any “work.” Didn’t see doctors for her diabetes either, sadly. She suffered poor health in later years, sadly.
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Ginger and I might have disagreed on a few things but I have always enjoyed her work and admire greatly her work ethic, which was second to none. I am a bit confused why she said that she had never taken a suspension....Pandro Berman suspended her for three weeks. I believe it was because she was contracted to do a film of his choice, Batchelor Mother (with David Niven), and she flatly refused to do it. Pandro Berman suspended her and withheld her salary (which was huge by the standards of the time) for three weeks. She came back to work eventually........as, in Berman's words, "she could stand it no longer". I thought that Ginger was incredibly dignified about her quite fractured and difficult relationship with Katherine Hepburn. They played off against one and other beautifully in "Stage Door". Much as I adore Hepburn, she could be quite snobbish and I suspect resented Ginger's success and popularity. All in all, I am a Ginger "fan". She just got things done, worked hard and didn't rely on any of her five husbands for financial security - in fact, it seemed to be the other way around for at least four of them! Good on her, she contributed much to motion pictures and was a determined woman.
Why are you doing this? Anyone can read the information you've commented,,,, , you'd have to be at least 110 years old to make those statements,,,,,, give us a break!!
I read Ginger Rogers' autobiography and she mentions nothing about being suspended by Pandro Berman over Bachelor Mother. Miss Rogers did mention that Pandro Berman was the producer of Bachelor Mother. Actually I thought that only the studio (RKO) could suspend an actress, not a lowly producer like Pandro Berman. Since when can a producer withhold your salary under the studio star contract system when it is the studio who is paying the actress under contract? Miss Rogers did write to Pandro in which she states that the script was a thin story line with cardboard characters. Pandro wrote back to her and defended the script. RKO believed that it was good vehicle for her as well. Miss Rogers fought a bit but in the end she consented to do the script as is and the movie went on to be a success. But there was no mention of a suspension taking place. If Miss Rogers had been suspended by RKO they would have replaced her and Miss Rogers would not have been able to work until Bachelor Mother was completed.
@@jackjules7552 - Jack, have a look at the wonderful BBC programme "The RKO Story" (on RU-vid). The original series was narrated by Ed Asner (of Lou Grant fame). There was a subsequent series edited after Fred died in 1987 and another reworking of the programmes following Ginger's death in 1995. In the series Pan Berman was interviewed about his time as supervising producer at RKO studios. Not sure which of the episodes it was where Pan and Ginger told the story of their relationship (separately) but it's a fascinating bit of movie history/reportage. Might be the second programme "A Woman's Lot". Pandro Berman was pivotal to the production of the "Astaire-Rogers" films and had hire or fire powers over many of the artist(e)s. Incidentally, the "Astaire-Rogers" tag was something that irked Ginger as she was the bigger star when she first got together with Fred. She'd worked on stage in New York and in many of the "shorts" produced by the New York film industry.
@@destineydevereux4722 - I meant no criticism of Ginger. I suspect that she was flexing her "star" muscles. She is an intriguing woman. Someone with feminist leanings, in my opinion, as it bugged her that it was "a man's world". Listen to her interview on the BBC with Selena Scott (standing in for Terry Wogan). It'll be on YT. She stood up for herself at a time when women were meant to be compliant....she got on very well with Bette Davis; another woman not to be messed with.
@@TellyWatcher1997 Yes, I have read where some producers may have had "hire or fire" powers for a specific film during the studio system days. But I have never read where a producer had the power to put a film actor under studio suspension. That is a completely different power than "hire or fire" over a specific film project. I'll eat my hat if Pan Berman had the power to put any actor at RKO under studio suspension. After all he is just a producer and he did not run RKO. If an actor refused a script or walked out of a film the studio (not the producer) often put the actor under suspension which would mean that the actor could not work until the film they walked out on was completed by their replacement. In Ginger's book she does state that she would argue over scripts. She even argued over the Kitty Foyle script which she thought was too lured before it was edited. But I believe Ginger when she says she never had a studio suspension.
Its A Awesome book! Personally, I love autobiographies, and this one is no exception. Ginger did a great job of writing her life memories and experiences down on paper. Starting from memories she doesn't even remember (Her mother told her about them!) of getting kidnapped, and progressing slowly through her life on her rise to fame, every moment is filled with rich and funny experiences. This book is a MUST for any Ginger fan!
Ginger Rogers, nome artístico adotado por Virginia Katherine McMath foi uma cantora, atriz e dançarina, do cinema e teatro dos Estados Unidos da América. Iniciou sua carreira com 15 anos, dançando “vaudevilles.” Com 19 anos estreou em Hollywood, onde trabalhou em quase 100 filmes entre musicais, comédias e dramas. Conheceu Fred Astaire na década de 1930 e com ele fez dez filmes musicais, tornando-se uma das suas mais célebres parceiras. (Texto: Juares de Marcos Jardim; Fonte: Wikipedia)
Of course people forget or do not even know she won an Oscar for acting in a movie in which she did not dance with Fred....usually the mass public is uninformed and common.
What a beautiful wonderful woman, and a true gift to us. I didn't see the comments comparing her to Lady Gaga, who I also love, to a degree. BUT, I guarantee you Lady Gaga knows Miss Rogers was a pioneer and allowed that door to open a bit to give all the young girls today that freedom to dance and express themselves.
