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Creator: Ginger Rogers

"Sure [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget Ginger Rogers did everything he did backwards... and in high heels!"

— Bob Thaves

"Ginger had never danced with a partner before [Flying Down to Rio]. She faked it an awful lot. She couldn't tap and she couldn't do this and that ... but Ginger had style and talent and improved as she went along. She got so that after a while everyone else who danced with me looked wrong."

— Fred Astaire

Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) was an actress, singer and dancer who appeared in a lot of films (a total of seventy-three), television and stage shows over her career but is mostly remembered for her musical films - particularly her ten films with Fred Astaire, where she starred with him as his love interest.

After winning a dance competition, she made her way through stage musicals and landed herself numerous film roles in 1929 and eventually partnered up with Fred Astaire in 1933, creating some of the most beautiful dance routines ever filmed and, with him, revolutionised the genre.

She was ranked the fifteenth greatest actress of all time by the American Film Institute.

Some of her Filmography:

42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Rafter Romance (1933)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Roberta (1934)
Top Hat (1935)
Follow The Fleet (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
Shall We Dance (1937)
Stage Door (1937)
Vivacious Lady (1938)
Carefree (1938)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Kitty Foyle (1940) - she won an Academy Award for Best Actress
The Major And The Minor (1942)
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Lady In The Dark (1944)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Monkey Business (1952)

Tropes:

Dyeing For Your Art: Dying her blond hair brown for Kitty Foyle.
Stage Names: She was born Virginia Katherine McMath.
- Subverted, in that she got both names honestly. She got the nickname "Ginger" when she was 5 years old and staying with an aunt, uncle, and even younger cousin. The cousin called her Ginger because the cousin couldn't yet pronounce her Vs. Ginger's parents were divorced before she was born and her mother later remarried to a man named Rogers, hence "Ginger Rogers" was the name she had for most of her childhood. She didn't even think of it as a stage name, planning on getting a different one when her career began to take off on Broadway. Her show's producer and director talked her out of it, because they loved her name, especially because she looked and sounded just like a "Ginger Rogers".
Those Two Actors: With Fred Astaire. A few times with Cary Grant.

Seth Rogen

Actors

Mimi Rogers