Ginger Rogers
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| Name: | Ginger Rogers | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 83 (July 16, 1911 -April 25, 1995) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 20.425 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the twentieth century. During her long career, she made a total of 73 films and is noted for her role as Fred Astaire's partner in a series of ten musical films. She achieved great success in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle. After winning a 1925 Charleston dance contest that launched a successful vaudeville career, she gained recognition as a Broadway actress for her stage debut in Girl Crazy. This led to a contract with Paramount Pictures, which ended after five films. Rogers had her first successful film role as a supporting actress in 42nd Street. In the 1930s, Rogers' nine films with Fred Astaire gave RKO Pictures some of its biggest successes, most notably Top Hat and Swing Time. But after two commercial failures with Astaire, she branched out into dramatic and comedy films. Her acting was well received by critics and audiences, and she became one of the biggest box-office draws and highest paid actresses of the 1940s. Her performance in Kitty Foyle won her the Oscar for Best Actress. Rogers' popularity peaked by the end of the decade. She reunited with Astaire in 1949 in the commercially successful The Barkleys of Broadway. After an unsuccessful period in the 1950s, she returned to Broadway in 1965, playing the lead role in Hello, Dolly!. More Broadway roles followed, along with her stage directorial debut in 1985 of an off-Broadway production of Babes in Arms. She also made television acting appearances until 1987. In 1992, Rogers was recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors. She died of a heart attack in 1995, at age 83. Rogers is associated with the phrase "backwards and in high heels", which is attributed to Bob Thaves' Frank and Ernest 1982 cartoon with the caption "Sure he [Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did...backwards and in high heels". This phrase is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Ann Richards, who used it in her keynote address to the 1988 Democratic National Convention. A Republican and a devout Christian Scientist, Rogers married five times with all of them ending in divorce, and having no children. During her long career, Rogers made 73 films, and her musical films with Astaire are credited with revolutionizing the genre. Rogers was a major movie star during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood and is often considered an American icon. She ranks number 14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of female stars of classic American cinema. Her autobiography Ginger: My Story was published in 1991. |
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Movies
Black Widow
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smokingsides
Garner, a holding scene. Rogers holds, wearing long black gloves, then a later scene where she clenches a holder between her teeth while conversing. |
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smokingsides
Only one short lighting up scene early in the movie. In her scene with Dennis Hopper, Miss Russell smokes what appears to be an Eve 120. Her x-tra long rad nails complete the picture quite nicely. |
Finishing School
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smokingsides
[Burke] Has a cigarette on a holder, but doesn't light it. [Rogers] Goes under her blanket for a pack of Lucky Strikes, offers one to Frances Dee (who refuses), and lights up by striking the match with her thumbnail. All in the first ten minutes or so. |
Forever Female
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smokingsides
Smokes at least twice. At ten minute spot, waves unlit cigarette around. |
Heartbeat
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smokingsides
Smokes in one scene from a distance, nothing memorable. |
Perfect Strangers
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smokingsides
(57:00) Jurors are visiting the crime scene. Ginger takes a man aside, saying he needs a little campaigning. When they sit together on a bench, she says, "I'd rather have a cigarette." She takes one from his gold case, taps twice, accepts a light, nice puckered exhale - all the while wearing nice white gloves. |
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smokingsides
Smokes in 4 scenes early on in the movie. First has an inhale with an invisible exhale. 2nd scene at a bar has 1 inhale, 2 lightups and an exhale. 3rd scene in long shot outside with a couple drags. Last scene has a lightup and exhale. In a deleted scene, the bar scenes are repeated, but there is an additional inhale/exhale and the 2nd lightup is shown at a different angle, letting you catch a nice profile exhale. |
Roberta
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smokingsides
I specifically remember her smoking in the first scene in the dress shop where she's causing a scene and Fred first recognizes her, and she might smoke a time or two after that, but I can't remember. |
Star of Midnight
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smokingsides
A young, very attractive Ginger Rogers smoked throughout this entire movie. Some pretty good scenes. |
Storm Warning
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smokingsides
smokes several times in the first half of this movie, as I recall. She still looked pretty good, too. |
Tales of Manhattan
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smokingsides
Wearing a t-shirt that says 'bitch' and sitting at a bar, Garofalo has 3 drags and 2 visible exhales |
Tender Comrade
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smokingsides
[one scene] ... a scene at the breakfast table with her soldier-husband Chris who has just been home for a 24-hour leave and lights her cigarette as well as his own. |
The Major and the Minor
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smokingsides
plays a young woman ... who pretends to be a twelve year-old so she can ride the train for half-fare. The first time she smokes is a scene in which the conductor (who is suspicious of her proported age) sees her through the window, smoking on the back platform of the train. He confronts her and she actually 'eats' the cigarette, trying to hide it from him in her mouth until she can't hold it anymore and coughs it up. It's pretty funny. She next smokes in the scene in Lucy's bedroom, when Lucy (a real twelve year-old who knows Susan is not really a kid) offers her a smoke, refusing one for herself because she says, 'I find adolescence makes you nervous enough.' Lucy lights it for Ginger with a long fireplace match. Ginger smokes again in a later scene in Lucy's room, lighting her cigarette on a bunsen burner flame. |
Tight Spot
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smokingsides
Smokes in 2 scenes, but she doesn't look her best. |
Young Man of Manhattan
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smokingsides
she says: 'cigarette me, big boy' |
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