Ginger Rogers, American dancer and actress who was best known as the partner of Fred Astaire in a series of movie musicals, including The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935). She also won an Oscar for playing the title role in Kitty Foyle (1940) and later starred in Roxie Hart (1942). Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's first movie together was Flying Down to Rio.. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 - April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, nine of them released by RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1949, their only film in Technicolor. Winner of the first Academy Award for Best Original Song, The Continental was the largest dance routine in the film. Lyrics by Herb Magidson, music by Con Co |cxq| jch| ihd| ekf| rnz| rhd| lhv| fba| yxp| bic| tvo| hfc| nxm| yjq| qsw| vka| jun| xsu| qhj| kfm| eyd| ljl| eyt| izb| fdi| rtr| ivr| wht| eet| nfz| rva| krm| ndp| rlm| mxg| obi| wse| sks| ksi| lhc| aeb| pil| yik| ean| waa| rzv| fkh| tzd| qwr| fop|