I met Ginger in London in 1970, when she was doing Mame. She was so gracious to me, gave me several minutes of her attention and her autograph. I was literaly in heaven for days!
I got bumped to first class on a flight years ago and sat next to her. She was quite sweet and asked about my work and life. This was interspersed with people coming up and saying hello to her.
I met Ginger backstage in my teens. My mother had the idea to go backstage...Hello Dolly. San Francisco. in the late 60's. She signed my photo with lipstick. Later, my mother wrote to her and I still have the hand signed letter from GInger on her personal stationary. I was appropriately dazzled by GInger backstage. First time I'd ever seen glitter on cheeks. Hello Dolly was spectacular, and the theater was small compared to what people go to now.
Joan holds delightful interviews with respect towards the icons of our times. She put aside her biting sarcasm and comes across so polite.That is the Joan I admired!
Ginger Rogers lived in my area (southern Oregon) in her final years. My wife and I had the opportunity to see her honored at the newly created Ginger Rogers theater. She was wheelchair bound, and her assistant brought her out on stage. She was able to stand at the podium, and she looked beautiful! There was a long row of handsome, tuxedoed men on either side of her, which came all the way out to the audience. (Just like in one of her beautiful movies in the past). It was lovely to be there that night!
Ginger was such a warm person, yet very strong within herself and confident. Joan was funny and always enjoyable.. lots of mutual respect in this one. Thank you for the post.
@@ethanedwards7557 Considering communism is a scourge on the world that has killed hundreds of millions of people and put the rest into abject poverty, I'd say she was doing the country a service. Don't be a sheep.
Of course all her dancing films are fabulous! But I also love her dramatic rolls too. I don't think she gets enough credit for them. One of my favorites is I'll Be Seeing You (1945) with Joseph Cotten, Spring Byington, Shirley Temple and Tom Tully. Her wonderful timing is part of what makes her so great! Not many can be so funny and so dramatic. She was a true artist!!! If you haven't seen I'll Be Seeing You TCM usually has on towards the holidays. Enjoy!
Well, she won the Academy Award as Best Actress for Kitty Foyle and in a very difficult year with Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Martha Scott and Joan Fontaine !!!!
This is why I love RU-vidrs! 🙏 2 of my VERY favourite people. What a combo! I saw Joan Rivers at Oxford Theatre, England..HILARIOUS from start to finish...
I knew Joan well. Never met Miss Rogers. Never realised how intelligent, articulate, wise, sharp she was. Joan is visibly nervous in this one! Met her match!
Ginger gave a good interview though she didn't always. I think she kept Joan on her toes and was funny and gracious but didn't reveal more than she wanted to. Ginger Rogers is an icon who did much more than her ten musicals with Fred. For die hards of Ginger I recommend 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Stage Door and Star of Midnight.
She was beautiful til the end wow. And after watching this video, I was really impressed by how funny and kind she is. She is a wonderfully warm person.
She was before my time. From what I can assume she was a powerful woman, very likeable. No drinking or smoking clean life, smart , so good for society.
It’s so nice reading the comments about these two woman. Coming from 2023 there’s something so witty and modern about these two, and REAL. I love how direct and funny they are. Ginger glows and is strong, eloquent and you can see the wise cracking glint of the 30s in her. She has class and self-assurance which I think stars today are fearful of because they confuse strength (unless it’s feminism) with arrogance. Stars today have a sleepy charm, you have the cute, honest young stars who are “of the people”. Their discussions filled with “like” , “I mean” “y’a know.”. They crack some jokes and tell some witty stories but it’s very loud and coloured with smiles and games. This one slices through the air with no nonsense. So refreshing.
Joan did a good interview. Others in the business commented on how hard Ginger worked and said it was due to her mother pushing her all the time. Ginger and her mother were very strong Christian Scientists. Her mother, Lela E. Rogers, played Ginger's mother in the Major and the Minor. Speaking of how classy she is, her cousin was Phyllis Fraser wife of Bennett Cerf (What's My Line) and that was also class.
I think so too, and Ginger didn't sleep with a producer as Kate Hepburn did to get a part,i.e. Howard Hughes, so she could do her comeback role: The Philadelphia Story. Up until then she was voted as box office poison. Ginger was class. Kate was monied, but not class.
I missed a chance to meet Ginger in 1994. Her last year with us. My wife went to a Christian Science lecture at her church and I stayed home. Ginger Rogers was there in attendance. My only regret in life is I didn't go to the lecture that night. I love Ginger. She my favorite star from that era.
+LetsMakeTheWorldScream I agree, Joan was an incredible comedian but a great chat show interviewer too - not many star could do both brilliantly, as she did. She was a fabulous one-off and is badly missed!
She looked pretty there but I saw her at the Kennedy Center where she was being honored and my jaw dropped to see how much she had changed. She had blown up and was wearing those hideous glasses. I wouldn't have recognized Ginger Rogers AT ALL!!
Back in '78 I did a chorus audition for the "new" Joe Papp production of "Pirates of Penzance" (Linda Rondstadt) and who comes out of a practice studio down the hallway? Yep, Ginger Rogers. She is so tiny! We all just stood there, mouths gaping at who just walked by us! What a thrill that was! Nope, didn't get the gig, though. I was an opera singer, so I passed the singing part of the audition. But when it came to the dancing part, yikes, it was exactly like Chorus Line(even though CL wasn't even conceived then). They called your number, you lined up onstage, they gave you a quick run through of the dance steps, then,......."5-6-7-8!" and off we would dance. I was pitiful.
