Def,...truthfully, Ginger's unparalleled cute/playfulness, seen here, always remained throughout ...underneath, as part of her.......slipping out during serious roles/scenes, etc from time to time, ^-^ more so in comedies of course... thus, why... in addition to her as a bless'ed individual, an extraordinarily talented lady, and ALL that is/was Ginger Rogers.... she IS my "Goddess Dame" & favorite STAR of stage & the silver screen.

UBER - ADORABLE, Ginger !!! ;)

100000000000000000 % ^-^

Michael Laprarie She looks and sounds like Popeyes olive oil.

She looks so cute just like Popeyes olive oil.

Ginger's school records list her birthday as July 1907 not 1911 as she claims!

@@garymazzeo3490 It is an interesting idea but it doesn't seem to work when you try to shoe-horn it into the known facts of Lela Rogers' life. B. 1891 Council Bluffs IA, married 1909, child died during birth 1910, daughter born 1911 (Ginger) If Ginger was b. 1907, Lela could physically have had a child at age 15 and been unwed. But losing the oldest child during birth when Lela was 14 and unwed is implausible. There is the difficulty of the gravestone marked 1910. And how do we account for the father William Eddins McMath traveling to Salt Lake City for their wedding in 1909 when they had already had two children ostensibly b. 1906 and 1907? It is known that Ginger was born in a house in Independence Mo, and it is known that Lela had left/fled her husband to that place in 1911. It doesn't pass the eye test, either. A person's features often change dramatically between 18 and 22. You can see it happen onscreen in actresses like Keira Knightley, Carrie Fisher or Scarlett Johansson. Ginger's features change dramatically onscreen between 1930 and 1934 and change very little over the years after that. And, it's difficult to reconcile the interviews with Ginger's Ft. Worth classmates who would surely have talked about a 19 year old high school freshman but didn't. They thought Ginger was the same age as them in 1925 when she won a Charleston contest at age 14.

@@user-mx2uc9ue3t Most of the major female stars in the late 1920s and 30s shaved four years off their age Crawford, Norma Shearer ,Jeanette MacDonald .The lie didn't end with them.Their families backed them up also.Sometimes mama,grandma brothers & Sisters were made older then the star .One of Gingers classmates said in the 1970s They both were born in 1907.Adding school records don't lie

@@garymazzeo3490 indeed they did, Jean Arthur did, Marlene Dietrich too and so did many others.. Doris Day kept up her story for decades. But these simple inquiries I provided make their stories fall apart very quickly. The later dates do not fit the facts surrounding them and their families. On the contrary, when you apply them to Ginger Rogers, it is the earlier date that doesn't fit any known facts (not guesses or claims but facts).. It is hard to imagine that someone would go into a cemetery and replace an infant's gravestone to support such a story. Nor could the property documents in the Missouri courthouse have been falsified.. It is an interesting idea, but alas, completely insupportable. The alleged classmate is a single source that can't overcome so many diverse and concrete facts.

Right, she sings it in the cutesy style of Kane. Her singing in the Ginger and Fred movies was more conventional..

Strangely enough, in an interview the orchestra leader Paul Ash said that Kane got the idea for the Betty Boop sort of voice from Ginger, NOT the other way round. Helen was indeed the earlier star but if you listen to her recordings you can hear her rather thin though pleasant soprano which suddenly and dramatically changed to the BB style. Ash, who employed both stars at various times, said Kane saw Rogers' act and, as vaudevillians always did, "borrowed it". Rogers herself also hinted a couple of times that Helen Kane had borrowed her act but Ginger abandoned it when she went onto Broadway. Her earliest films, though, showcase some of her vaudeville routines. As late as 1934 she was still selling her routines, check out the incendiary burlesque in Upperworld !

Ginger's real name was Virginia, her young cousin couldn't pronounce it and called her Ginger, the name stuck. It had nothing to do with her hair color.

@@fhr331 Her hair was naturally chestnut brown with auburn highlights (or so she claimed in her autobiography). RKO studio dyed it a little more blonde (I am assuming a bright strawberry blonde initially) when they sent her to the hairdressers. She has stated that she didn't know they were going to do that and only found out when some dye stung her head during the process. She found that she liked the lift it gave her hair as it showed up better in the black and white movies of the time. In Swing Time (1936) Fred Astaire's character refers to her as having red hair (although it looks blonde in the photograph at which he is looking at the time) so I am assuming her hair kept some of its reddish tints. Just like her pale blue ostrich feather trimmed dress in Top Hat, light yet vibrant colours didn't show up in those early films but they did reflect slightly in the magical depths of B&W.

@@TellyWatcher1997 What a fantastic explanation of why blond likely took off as "the" color. I always noticed I didn't like how brown haired girls looked in old movies, but I didn't know why. Black hair was fine, most men had black hair in old movies, but the brown hair looked bad and was rare to see. Even in this movie I kept thinking she looks so bad. I think your right, the way the light is set their hair just looks wrong when brown, it almost looks dirty and gray, but the lighter blond had a reflective quality that played well on screen, almost giving it an angelic halo or youthful glow. And the black hair was always so dramatic and contrasted well for most actors. While I love old films I know they did a lot of tricks, such as blue lipstick so lips wouldn't be washed out. This film must not have known the tricks, or no budget, because they didn't seem to make her lips pop.

Because she is imitating Helen 'Boop boop de doop' Kane, from 'I Want to be Loved by You' by Kalmar, Ruby and Stothart. Betty Boop the cartoon dog>woman was inspired by the song.

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