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They revolutionized the Hollywood musical by introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity with sweeping long shots set to songs specially composed for them by the greatest popular song composers of the day. Rogers had her first successful film roles as a supporting actress in 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of But after two commercial failures with Astaire, she turned her focus to dramatic and comedy films.
When she got to California, she signed a three-picture deal with Pathé Exchange.
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One of Rogers's young cousins had a hard time pronouncing "Virginia", giving her the nickname "Ginger". She then made a significant breakthrough as Anytime Annie in the Warner Bros. In the year-old entered and won a Charleston dance contest, the prize allowed her to tour as Ginger Rogers and the Redheads for six months on the Orpheum Circuit.
After that, she gained recognition as a Broadway actress for her stage debut in Girl Crazy. In , she won a Charleston dance contest [1] that helped her launch a successful vaudeville career.
This theater honored her years later by changing its name to the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater. Her career continued on stage, radio and television throughout much of the 20th century.
This led to a contract with Paramount Pictures , which ended after five films. She starred in the successful comedy Monkey Business and was critically lauded for her performance in Tight Spot before entering an unsuccessful period of filmmaking in the mids, and returned to Broadway in , playing the lead role in Hello, Dolly!
Rogers was known for her partnership with Fred Astaire. Rogers's popularity was peaking by the end of the decade.
Her appearance in Girl Crazy made her an overnight star at the age of In , Paramount Pictures signed her to a seven-year contract. As a teenager, Rogers thought of becoming a school teacher, but with her mother's interest in Hollywood and the theater, her early exposure to the theater increased. After winning the Oscar, Rogers became one of the biggest box-office draws and highest-paid actresses of the s.
She died of natural causes in , at age In , Rogers was left with her grandparents, who lived in nearby Kansas City , while her mother made a trip to Hollywood in an effort to get an essay she had written made into a film.
The marriage was over within a year, and she went back to touring with her mother. Rogers also made feature films for Warner Bros. Rogers's entertainment career began when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in. When Rogers was nine years old, her mother married John Logan Rogers. Paschal High School. Waiting for her mother in the wings of the Majestic Theatre, she began to sing and dance along with the performers on stage.
Ginger took the surname Rogers, although she was never legally adopted. She and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas , when she was nine years old. Rogers soon got herself out of the Paramount contract—under which she had made five feature films at Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens —and moved with her mother to Hollywood. Her mother became a theater critic for a local newspaper, the Fort Worth Record.
The resulting song and dance partnership enjoyed a unique credibility in the eyes of audiences. She went on to make a series of films at Warner Bros. Fred Astaire was hired to help the dancers with their choreography. She continued to act, making television appearances until , and wrote an autobiography Ginger: My Story which was published in In , Rogers was recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors.
Rogers was born in Independence, Missouri , and raised in Kansas City. More Broadway roles followed, along with her stage directorial debut in of an off-Broadway production of Babes in Arms. They lived in Fort Worth. She reunited with Astaire in in the commercially successful The Barkleys of Broadway.
Arlene Croce , Hermes Pan , Hannah Hyam, and John Mueller all consider Rogers to have been Astaire's finest dance partner, principally because of her ability to combine dancing skills, natural beauty, and exceptional abilities as a dramatic actress and comedian, thus truly complementing Astaire, a peerless dancer.