Thank you for knowing how special and important this moment was. Ginger Rogers is a class act and a National Treasure. She looks so beautiful , wearing lots of color and her hat ! Such a treat !

Thank you ever so much for this lovely birthday wishes for Ginger's last birthday. It was sad to see such a vital woman confined to a wheelchair but she still put forth her best effort for those who had come to pay tribute to her. I wish I had been able to meet her before she died. Ginger would have been 100 years old this July 16th. God Bless Ginger!!! Rest in Peace!!!

What a privilege to see this. Thank you! I was mesmerised by Ginger from the first time I saw her movies on TV, seems like every Sunday afternoon in early 60s in UK, when I was a child. She'll live on forever through those movies which still sparkle like new!

How wonderful it is to see the immortal Ginger Rogers celebrating her last birthday in her hometown. Truly, Ginger Rogers was one of the most talented and glamorous women in Hollywood and on the stage. She was a shining star up until the last days of her life.

She really looks wonderful, not just for her age. She sounds good, she can stand, and it's really hard to tell she had any strokes. A wonderful, exceptionally talented star!

omg Ginger, I'm crying!!! I love her and miss her so much!

Happy 30th Anniversary to the day this footage was shot! Ginger Rogers was a really amazing woman!

Oh. Ooooh, she looked so wonderful and beautiful with all those colours. Thank you for sharing this. I was 4 at the time so I wouldn't have noticed but just seeing this now moved me to tears. I hope she's really happy where she is right now and that she's with Fred and that they're all having a good time. Thank you for being here Ginger, I love you and God bless you. ♡

Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful video. Ginger may have been frail at this stage of her life, but she still possessed that sparkle and enthusiasm that was evident throughout her career. How right you are. In addition to being a hugely talented star, she was a true professional and mighty classy.

What a wonderful gift to Ms. Rogers. Loved her dancing@

Thank you for the kind words. It was an honor to shoot it and to post it.

I recall when shooting this video I was working for a local Kansas City TV station and was sent out by myself (without a reporter) to shoot this as a simple voice over. This meant that I was to hang around just long enough to get a little video that would show on the evening newscast and the anchor would talk over it for 20 seconds. Since it was a slow Saturday morning for news, I stayed as long as i could to capture the event. The station did just used twenty seconds of the tape on air, but I kept the raw footage and pulled it out some years later to edit for historical purposes. One of the few times I have done this in my history, but at the time I knew this was a special time that many generations of fans would love to have preserved. Because it was edited some years later from the original tape and edited digitally, it is a much better quality than if I had edited at the time. Thank you for watching.

Thank you for posting this lovely clip of my dear friend, Ginger. I miss her love and friendship.

Thanks for sharing this video. Ginger was such a strong woman throughout her life. A dedicated hard worker in her craft as an actress and volunteered for many causes throughout her life devoting a large portion of her spare time especially during WW2 and Korean War. She looks so beautiful in brilliant coloured ensemble. Had it not been for strokes she likely would have lived well in to her nineties as she was physically fit up until.

" GOD BLESS HER"...SHE WAS.. THE GREATEST DANCER..EVER TO BE....I LOVE SEEING....HER.. DANCING... W O W....MAY SHE REST IN PEACE.

Hi Tom I am writing from Malaysia and i have always loved Ms Ginger Rogers even tho i grew up in the 80s, because i saw Fred Aistaire & Ginger Rogers dancing on tv when i was a child, that time, sometimes our tv channel would air the old b/w classics. Because of you tube, i was able to get to see almost all of her movies and i grew to love her even more now. I cannot imagine that you saw her in real life. How wonderful that must have been. Thank you for posting this video because i am a die hard fan of all the old Hollywood moviestars because they are so very classy and so impossibly beautiful.

Thank you for sharing.glad she came to celebrate her birthday.in the summer of 1994 lifestyles magazine profiled her She was upbeat.

i’m so happy to see that she was HAPPY to celebrate her Bday with her fans and the look on her face says it all. Pure joy 🤩

Thank you It is so touching to see Ginger Rogers amongst her fans young and old.

Such a lady ❤

Thankyou so much for sharing this, simply wonderful to see!!

...a wonderful birthday tribute to a true Hollywood star.

What a class-act! Gracious, kind, and a real pro.

@AlenaJolie Thank you so much. I am glad I saved the raw footage after I shot it. Usually those tapes are recycled for another story, but was a fan so knew someday others would appreciate.

I love you dear Ginger!! We miss you!

Oh my, thank you so much for sharing this! I happened to share a birthday with her, though on this day, I only turned 2 years old. Took me almost 20 years later to find out about her. Now she will always be my inspiration.

That was so sweet to do for her. Nice town.

How sad this area is now a dump. Lots of history in this town; you'd think they preserve it.

She was all class bless u ginger rogers ty for this great video😂🇨🇦🇨🇦

She still lives there, because she is immortal beauty.

Wish i'd met this wonderful lady x

Happy 100th Birthday Ginger

Lovely!

this is so nice

Thanks for the upload, and she was still dancing at age 92!

@hamishray Thank you for your comment. Were you truly a personal friend of Gingers? I would love to here some of your reflections on knowing such a wonderful and talented lady.

Wow it’s sad to see her like this. She was still dancing in her 50s and 60s

She looked amazing at that age and what a beautiful spirit. Thank you! Did you ever read about her passing? She was at peace about where she was going. What a great example for us to follow.

Thank you for this video of lovely Ginger. She had always been so active in her life...danced, played tennis, kept busy performing, does anyone know why she was frail at this time. Did she have arthritis? Look at her face, she was still so beautiful...and so gracious to her fans.

You are so welcome. It was my honor.

I believe she suffered from diabetes and was a christian scientist, so not sure how she viewed medicine. She was so grateful that day and shooting her will always be one of my fondest memories.

I visited the house in Independence, very close to the Truman house. As expected, she is dressed beautifully.

Many people don't know that Miss Rogers was a talented tennis player, and she entered the 1950 US Open. However, she and Frank Shields were knocked out of the mixed doubles competition in the first round.

La grande Ginger sarebbe capace di ballare anche con la sedia a rotelle.... Nel suo genere la più grande ballerina di tutti i tempi... Dietro di lei il vuoto assoluto

@tomtalbertvideo I would, but I do not know how. Thanks for the offer.

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@keleigh97 : Feel free to link your page to this video, since I think Ginger fans will find it interesting.

Tomorrow would have been her birthday. So thoughtful of you to post this. She was another of several 'classy ladies' from the Golden Age. Greer Garson was another. Indeed, a privilege for you to have been there to shoot this precious video. Do you know who was the young woman with her who pushed her wheelchair and sat beside her? A friend? Or health aide?

The size of the plaque was ridiculously small...omg..

Oh, I see, diabetes. Well, that explains it. Bless her heart. Thank you for the reply.

Well, she learned to dance in texas.

I often get angry at father time because of what it does to people, including myself.

Most people are not dressed up. I think it is kind of rude to Ginger Rogers since she comes from a period where everyone dressup outside their homes.

It seemed like her health deteriorated so suddenly the last 10-15 yrs of her life.🥴

Is it true the house isn't recognized anymore as her birth place and a museum? So so sad to lose all the wonderful people of her generation and my dad's (he was born in 1930). The world is getting darker and more disgusting every minute!

The voice sounds familiar, the rest: old age is a bitch...