Ginger Rogers

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1995 Last public appearances included those at a photo session for a Vanity Fair magazine issue dedicated to Hollywood and at a Screen Actors Guild tribute (Rogers was one of the original 100 member

1991 Made television appearance as guest interviewee along with June Allyson, Jane Powell, and Esther Williams on "Burt Reynolds Conversations With..."

1988 Unsuccessfully sued the Italian producers of Fellini's film "Ginger and Fred" for invasion of privacy

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1995 Last public appearances included those at a photo session for a Vanity Fair magazine issue dedicated to Hollywood and at a Screen Actors Guild tribute (Rogers was one of the original 100 member

1991 Made television appearance as guest interviewee along with June Allyson, Jane Powell, and Esther Williams on "Burt Reynolds Conversations With..."

1988 Unsuccessfully sued the Italian producers of Fellini's film "Ginger and Fred" for invasion of privacy

1987 Made directorial debut staging a revival of the musical comedy play, "Babes in Arms"

1987 Appeared in the "Hail and Farewell" episode of the ABC series "Hotel"

1983 Career feted on the syndicated documentary TV special, "Legends of the Screen"

1980 Performed a capsule version of her touring show at Radio City Music Hall

1980 Starred in a summer production of "Anything Goes" opposite Sid Caesar

1978 Recorded an album of songs in England for EMI called "Miss Ginger Rogers"

1975 Starred onstage in the spring in Chicago in romantic comedy, "Forty Carats", then toured with show during the summer

1972 Signed a seven-year deal to act as traveling fashion consultant for J.C. Penney Stores

1971 Toured US in the musical, "Coco"; attracted media attention when she refused to utter one four-letter word in the script

1967 Reunited with Fred Astaire on Academy Awards broadcast, when they presented the writing awards; did a 30-second impromptu dance bit together while en route to the podium which received a huge audience

1965 Final dramatic film role, played Jean Harlow's mother in the biopic, "Harlow"

1964 Played the Queen on a TV version of Rodgers's and Hammerstein's musical version of "Cinderella", with Leslie Ann Warren in the title role

1964 Rogers and husband G. William Marshall set up production deal to make their own films, shooting in Jamaica; encountered production, budgeting and bureaucratic problems on the one film they made, "The

1963 Made a pilot for a TV comedy series, "The Ginger Rogers Show", in which she played twin sisters Elisabeth and Margaret Harcourt; option on possible series not picked up

1959 Made Las Vegas performing debut at the Riviera Hotel

1959 Starred in a live British TV adaptation of the musical, "Carissima"; oddly enough, the role as staged gave her the opportunities to neither sing nor dance

1959 Starred in tour of a bound-for-Broadway musical comedy, "The Pink Jungle", opposite Agnes Moorehead; play performed in several cities, but show had various problems with script, cast and production an

1958 Starred in TV variety special, "The Ginger Rogers Show"

1957 Starred in last feature film for seven years, "Oh Men! Oh Women!"

1954 Made TV debut in "Tonight at 8:30", a version of three short plays by Noel Coward

1954 Starred in first film not made in the United States, the British-produced "Beautiful Stranger" (U.S. Release title, "Twist of Fate")

1951 Returned to Broadway to star in a dual role Louis Verneuil's unsuccessful comedy, "Live and Let Love"; for one part she was billed as "Ginger Rogers" and for the other she was credited under her birth

1951 Made last of four appearances on the cover of "Life" magazine, in connection with her return to Broadway after 20 years

1950 Presented Fred Astaire with a special Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony for 1949 films

1949 Reunited with Fred Astaire when called on to replace an ailing Judy Garland in "The Barkleys of Broadway"

1948 Displeased with the scripts RKO sent her, Rogers and studio ended her nonexclusive contract by mutual consent

1946 Starred in rare historical drama, "Magnificent Doll", in which she played First Lady Dolley Madison

1946 First film made through nonexclusive RKO deal in three years, "Heartbeat", was also her last for the studio for a decade

1945 Highest-paid woman in the US, earning over $250,000; was also America's 8th highest paid person overall that year

1944 Starred in first film in color, Paramount's "Lady in the Dark"; film also featured the famous mink and sequins gown which cost over $30,000 at the time and was later donated to and kept on display at

1941 Opted not to renew her exclusive contract with RKO and began free-lancing; signed nonexclusive pact with the studio

1939 Last RKO musical with Fred Astaire, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle"

1939 Invited to place her hand and footprints and her signature in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater

1938 First of four appearances on the cover of "Life" magazine

1937 Enjoyed notable success without Astaire in "Stage Door"

1936 Radio debut in "The Curtain Rises" with Warren William on "Lux Radio Theater"

1934 First co-starring vehicle with Astaire, "The Gay Divorcee"

1933 Famous career moment: performing cheerful Depression-era anthem, "We're in the Money", in pig Latin in "Golddiggers of 1933"

1933 Signed with RKO

1933 Played early showcase part in RKO's "Professional Sweetheart"; one of her earliest films which was built up as a "vehicle" for her talents

1933 First film with Fred Astaire, "Flying Down to Rio", in which they played supporting roles

1932 Composed song, "The Gal Who Used to Be You" which she sang in a short film, "Hollywood on Parade #1"

1932 Named one of the WAMPAS "Baby Stars" of 1932

1932 First top-billed role in "The Thirteenth Guest"

1931 Moved out to Hollywood; first West Coast-produced feature, "The Tip Off"; made several films for RKO-Pathe

1930 Made feature film debut at Paramount's studios in Astoria, Queens, as a Jazz Age flapper in "Young Man of Manhattan", in which she uttered a line which enjoyed a nationwide popularity, "Cigarette me,

1930 Played female lead in her first feature musical film, "Queen High"

1930 Returned to Broadway as female lead (at age 19) of George and Ira Gershwin's successful "Girl Crazy", earning $1,000 per week; introduced the song standards "Embraceable You" and "But Not for Me"; fir

1929 Success on Broadway in supporting role in musical "Top Speed" (singing "Hot and Bothered") led to screen test at Parmount's Astoria, Long Island Studio; signed by Paramount

1929 - 1930 Appeared in a number of short subjects including "A Night in a Dormitory" (1929) and "Office Blues" (1930)

1928 Worked as band singer with Paul Ash's orchestra in New York (date approximate)

1926 Began working regularly on the vaudeville circuit: billed as "Ginger and Her Redheads", toured Oklahoma and Texas with two other dancers, after winning a statewide Charleston contest in Texas; the two

1925 Briefly worked as substitute dancer for Eddie Foy in vaudeville

1917 Offered a part in a Fox film while mother was working as a scriptwriter; mother refused to let her work after the first day

Subject of a custody battle between parents when they separated; at one point the infant Rogers was kidnapped by her father

Moved with family to Forth Worth, Texas while in high school; took part in school dramatics and took dancing lessons

Vaudeville act expanded to include other dances such as the Spanish-flavored Valencia; also did comedy patter routines involving baby talk and comic wordplay

Left Paramount; made a number of films for Warner Brothers

Enjoyed earliest solo starring successes in such films as "Romance in Manhattan" and "In Person"

Rogers and Astaire appeared together on motion picture exhibitors annual poll of top ten box office stars three years in a row, placing 4th, 3rd and 7th

Was in unique position of being RKO's only top boxoffice star under long-term contract; first major solo hit after the series co-starring Astaire, "Bachelor Mother", RKO's biggest hit of 1939

Mother Lela Rogers testified as a "friendly witness" before the infamous HUAC "witch hunt" anti-leftist trials which resulted in the Hollywood blacklists of the late 1940s and early 50s

Travelled abroad extensively for the first time

Appeared in touring stage shows, regional and summer stock performances of such musicals as "Annie, Get Your Gun", "Tovarich" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"

Replaced Carol Channing (who opened the musical) in "Hello, Dolly!" on Broadway; was critically acclaimed in the role and enjoyed great boxoffice success; performed in the show for a year and a half u

Made London stage debut; was the highest-paid performer ever to appear on London stage up until that time (earning 5000 pounds--at the time the rough equivalent of $12,000--per week for a 56-week run)

Appeared in successful international touring nightclub and stage retrospective of her career, "The Ginger Rogers Show" (taped for Italian TV; also did a song and dance number to "The Carioca" on Ameri

Guest starred occasionally on TV on shows such as "The Love Boat" (in an episode reuniting her with former co-star Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.)