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Ginger Rogers: Media
American actress and dancer
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How Fred Astaire became a dancer
Astaire's first screen test earned him a negative review: “Can't act, can't sing....
Images
lobby card for Flying Down to Rio
An advertisement for the film Flying Down to Rio (1933), starring Ginger...
© 1933 RKO Radio Pictures Inc.; photograph from a private collection
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee (1934), directed by Mark...
© 1934 RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Scene from the film Swing Time
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in Swing Time (1936).
© 1936 RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939),...
© 1939 RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
filming of Kitty Foyle
(From left to right) Sam Wood, James Craig, an unidentified crew member, and Ginger...
© 1940 RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
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