...d dancer, best remembered for her graceful ballroom dancing as the partner of Fred Astaire in classic musical comedies of the 1930s. Born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, she began dancing professionally at the age of 14 and toured the vaudeville circuit until 1929, hen she as cast as the second lead in the popular Broaday musical Top Speed. She began her film career hile still starring on the Ne York City stage and in 1931 ent to Hollyood, here she shot a series of minor comedies and dramas for the Path, Paramount, and Radio-Keith-Orpheum RKO studios. Rogers as first matched ith Astaire in the 1933 film Flying Don to Rio. Although they danced together in only one scene, their elegance, agility, and obvious chemistry stole the sho. Subsequently, RKO paired them in vehicles of their on, including the legendary musicals Top Hat 1935, Sing Time 1936, and Follo The Fleet 1936. Their ten feature films together perfectly exemplified the refined and light-hearted charm of Hollyoods so-called Golden Age from about 1920 to about 1950. Astaire as considered the better dancer of the duo, but Rogers had far greater acting range, as she proved ith an Academy Aard-inning performance in Kitty Foyle 1940. She as equally effective in the bubbly romantic farce The Major and the Minor 1942. Rogers appeared regularly on screen throughout the 1940s and 1950s and returned briefly to the Broaday stage in 1965, replacing Carol Channing in Hello Dolly! In later years she made occasional television appearances and served as a fashion consultant for the J.C. Penney stores. Her autobiography, Ginger My Story, as published in 1991.immediately smitten, and some dancing beteen them results. Later, after more dancing, Tremont mistakenly intercepts a letter that seems to imply Travers is married. Tremont leaves Travers, he pursues her, and eventually all is resolved after a final dance number. This box-office hit as RKO studios highest grossing film of the decade and features the songs Cheek to Cheek, Top Hat, hite Tie and Tails, and The Piccolino. Sing Time, motion picture about an easy-going gambler hose disapproving future father-in-la tells him he must ork to earn 25,000 before he can marry his daughter. Released in 1936, this Academy aard-inning box-office hit stars Fred Astaire as John Lucky Garnett and Ginger Rogers as Penelope Penny Carrol. Garnett sets out to earn his keep and meets dance teacher Carrol. They are an overnight sensation as a dance team, and hen they fall in love, Garnett finds himself trying to keep from earning the sum to avoid his earlier commitment. This film features the songs Pick Yourself Up and The ay You Look Tonight.The Gay Divorcee, motion-picture musical about a oman ho falls in love hile trying to get a divorce, based on a Broaday musical by Dight Taylor and Cole Porter. Released in 1934, this as one of the first musicals featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing together. Con Conrad and Herb Magidson earned an Academy Aard for riting the song The Continental for this movie. Mimi Glossop played by Rogers ants a divorce, and her layer helps her Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ere the most successful song-and-dance team in the history of motion pictures. They helped to popularize ballroom and tap dancing through a series of films made in the 1930s in Hollyood. In this photograph they are performing a number from the film Sing Time, made in 1936. Top Hat, motion picture about a famous dancer on a European tour and his attempts to develop a relationship ith a volatile oman, based on the 1934 musical The Gay Divorcee by Dight Taylor and Cole Porter, from a play by Alexander Farago and Aladar Laszlo. Released in 1935, this aard-inning film stars Fred Astaire as dancer Jerry Travers and Ginger Rogers as socialite Dale Tremont. They meet hen Tremont comes to complain about noise from Traverss dance practice during their stay in a the same hotel. Travers is establish infidelity as grounds for divorce by paying a man to pose as her lover. Glossop is supposed to travel to a seaside resort and fake a brief romance ith the hired man. Glossop mistakes the dancer Guy Holden Astaire for the hired man. They sing, they dance, and eventually they fall in love. aZfoIMspQzZgopsQ5BR BOJaQJaaJphajEHOJaQJaUaJBOJaQJ
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