 42nd Street 1933  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, George E. Stone, Allen Jenkins, Ned Sparks, Edward J. Nugent, Robert McWade, Louise Beavers, George Irving
Busby Berkeley's musical numbers highlight this entertaining film about what goes on behind the scenes of the Broadway musical show, "Pretty Lady." The show's director Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) is in poor health but wants to enjoy one more hit before he retires. When the show's temperamental star, Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) breaks her ankle on the night of the show's opening, chorus girl Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler) fills in and takes over the lead. Featured numbers include" "You're getting to Be a Habit with Me," "Shuffle off to Buffalo," and "42nd Street." The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
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Bachelor Mother 1939  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Garson Kanin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, E.E. Clive, Ernest Truex, Paul Stanton, Ferike Boros, Leonard Penn, Dennie Moore, Elbert Coplen Jr., Frank M. Thomas, Edna Holland, June Wilkins, Donald Duck
Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is a clerk at Merlin's Department Store who discovers an abandoned baby on her doorstep. She falls in love with the little bundle of joy and decides to adopt the baby. Rumors fly that Polly is really the birth mother, and the store owner, J.B. Merlin (Charles Coburn), sends his son David (David Niven) to get Polly back on the straight-and-narrow path. Now, Polly discovers more than love for the charming infant, she discovers other forms of love, too. 1 User Review
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| | very good movie and funny too | Anonymous 03/25/2010 | | |
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 The Barkleys of Broadway 1949  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Gale Robbins, Jacques Francois, George Zucco, Hans Conried, Clinton Sundberg, Frank Ferguson, Inez Cooper, Carol Brewster, Wilson Wood, Lorraine Crawford, Mary Jo Ellis
After a 10-year separation, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are re-teamed as musical-comedy performers Josh and Dinah Barkley. Although Dinah is the protege of Josh, she is offered and accepts a new role as a dramatic actress, and this creates problems in their marriage. Musical numbers include "They Can't Take That Away from Me," "You'd Be Hard to Replace," "The Sabre Dance," and "My One and Only Highland Fling."
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Black Widow 1954   N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner, Reginald Gardiner, Otto Kruger, Cathleen Nesbitt, Skip Homeier, Virginia Leith, Hilda Simms, Bea Benaderet, Aaron Spelling, Harry Carter, Geraldine Wall
This mystery by Patrick Quentin is somewhat gaudy but still entertaining about goings on in an upper-crust apartment building. Van Heflin plays a married Broadway producer who is suspected of killing Nancy (Peggy Ann Garner) when she turns up dead in his apartment. Detective Lt. C.A.Bruce (George Raft) is on the scene to clear it all up. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 01/29/2013 | | Very entertaining, great costuming and good story with surprises! |
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Carefree 1938 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear, Jack Carson, Clarence Kolb, Franklin Pangborn, Walter Kingsford, Hattie McDaniel, Edward Gargan, Kay Sutton, Grace Hayle, Richard Lane, Frank Moran, Ray Hendricks
Psychiatrist Dr. Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire) falls in love with his patient, Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers). There is just one problem: Amanda is the fiancee of Flagg's friend, Stephen Arden (Ralph Bellamy). Stephen had asked Tony to uncover why Amanda cannot decide whether or not to marry him, and while hypnotizing Amanda to find the reason, Tony falls in love with her. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Score, which includes "Change Partners and Dance with Me."
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Change of Heart 1934 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple, Mischa Auer, Jane Darwell, Bess Flowers, Dick Foran, Leonid Kinskey
Following college, four graduates head for New York in search of fame and fortune.
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 Cinderella 1965 TV, 84 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Fantasy / Romance
aka: Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Cast: Lesley Ann Warren, Stuart Damon, Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm, Jo Van Fleet, Pat Carroll, Barbara Ruick, Joe E. Marks, Bill Lee, Don Heitgerd, Butch Sherwood, Bill Lee, Betty Noyes, Trudi Ames
This made-for-TV remake of the classic fairy tale is set to music (by Rodgers and Hammerstein) and is enjoyable fare. Cinderella (Lesley Ann Warren) is treated poorly by her stepmother (Jo Van Fleet) and stepsisters (Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick). They forbid Cinderella to go to the ball where the Prince (Stuart Damon) will choose his bride. The Fairy Godmother (Celeste Holm) appears and magically transforms Cinderella into the belle of the ball. Cinderella meets the Prince and captures his heart. But, the Fairy Godmother's magic will last only until midnight, and Cinderella must flee the ball. Will the Prince pursue her?
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The Confession 1964  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Quick, Let's Get Married
Seven Different Ways
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara, Walter Abel, Elliott Gould, Cecil Kellaway, Pippa Scott, Leonardo Cimino, Vinton Haworth, David Hurst, Carl Schell, Mara Lynn, Julian Upton, Carol Ann Daniels
This film was made in 1964 but it was not released for showing until 1971; it involves a joke pulled on unworldly prostitute Pia (Barbara Eden). The madam, Rinaldi (Ginger Rogers), and Mario Forni (Ray Milland) team up to convince the pregnant Pia that she has witnessed a miracle, but the plot backfires. This film marks the film debut of Elliot Gould in his role of a deaf mute.
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The First Traveling Saleslady 1956  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western / Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian, Clint Eastwood, James Arness, Robert F. Simon, Frank Wilcox, Dan White, Harry Cheshire, Ed Cassidy, Nora Bush, George Baxter, Herman Hack, Bill Hale
In this weak comedy, Rose Gillray (Ginger Rogers) finds love when she and her friend Molly Wade (Carol Channing) set off to sell barbed wire to rough Texas cattlemen. Keep on the lookout for a very young Clint Eastwood in the role of Lt. Jack Rice, Roughrider..
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 Flying Down to Rio 1933 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Thornton Freeland
Cast: Dolores del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Blanche Friderici, Walter Walker, Eric Blore, Luis Alberni, Paul Porcasi, Franklin Pangborn, Lucile Browne, Mary Kornman, Betty Furness, Sidney Bracey
While performing in Miami, band leader Roger Band (Gene Raymond) flirts with Brazilian Heiress Belinha de Rezende (Dolores del Rio), which results in his band, Yankee Clippers, being fired. When the band is hired by the Hotel Atlantico in Rio, Belinha joins Roger on his private plane, and, after mechanical problems, they land on a beach, and romance blooms. But, more problems lie in store because Belinha is engaged to marry Roger's best friend Julio Ribeiro (Paul Roulien). This is the first pairing of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire who play dancers Honey Hale and Fred Ayres. Novelty numbers include dancing on the wings of airplanes.
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Follow the Fleet 1936  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn, Harry Beresford, Russell Hicks, Brooks Benedict, Lucille Ball, Ray Mayer, Betty Grable, Joy Hodges, Jeanne Gray, Doris Lloyd, Frederic Blanchard
Professional dance partners Bake Baker (Fred Astaire) and Sherry Martin (Ginger Rogers) are separated when Baker joins the Navy. Now, they meet in San Francisco and stage a show for charity during Baker's shore leave. Meanwhile, Baker's sailor pal Bilge Smith (Randolph Scott) romances Sherry's sister Connie (Harriet Hilliard), but all does not go well for them. Astaire and Rogers' dance rendition of "Let's Face the Music and Dance" is a highlight of the film.
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Forever Female 1953 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, James Gleason, Jesse White, Marjorie Rambeau, George Reeves, King Donovan, Marion Ross, Pat Crowley, Sally Mansfield, Kathryn Grant, Vic Perrin, Russell Gaige, Richard Shannon
Beatrice Page (Ginger Rogers) is an aging summer-stock star who tries to take on roles meant for much younger actresses in this perceptive, and very funny, story.
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 The Gay Divorcee 1934 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, William Austin, Betty Grable, E.E. Clive, Paul Porcasi, Lillian Miles, Charles Coleman, George Davis, Charlie Hall
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, as Guy and Mimi, run into each other at a resort where Mimi is awaiting her divorce. Mimi mistakes Guy for the man (Erik Rhodes) who her aunt (Alice Brady) has hired to have a tryst with Mimi and, thus, provide the grounds for her divorce. Complications ensue when Guy is attracted to Mimi, but she, because of the mix-up, does not treat him well. By story's end, all ends happily. The dances to "The Continental" and "Night and Day" are delightfully performed in this film. "The Continental" won the Academy Award for Best Song, the first year that the award was given for this category. Nominations were also received for four other awards, including Best Picture.
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey 1984 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: George Stevens Jr.
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Warren Beatty, Jack Palance, Spencer Tracy, Fred MacMurray, Many Guest Stars
This is an insightful documentary–about the life of director George Stevens–featuring personal interviews and home movies concerning his distinguished film career.
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 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Aline MacMahon, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Sterling Holloway, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Billy Barty, Hobart Cavanaugh, Busby Berkeley, Charles(1) Lane, Tammany Young
This musical proved so popular that two sequels were made: one in 1935 and another in 1937. Unemployed showgirls Carol (Joan Blondell), Polly (Ruby Keeler), and Trixie (Aline MacMahon) want to perform in a musical, and IF Polly will play the lead, singer-composer Brad Roberts (Dick Powell) will foot the bill. Brad and Polly are in love, but Brad's wealthy family disapproves and will stop at nothing to break them up–but they fail, and the show goes on. Ginger Rogers sings "We're in the Money" while wearing only silver dollars in one of the great Busby Berkeley production numbers.
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The Groom Wore Spurs 1951  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Whorf
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis, Stanley Ridges, James Brown, John Litel, Victor Sen Yung, Mira McKinney, Gordon Nelson, George Meader, Kemp Niver, Robert Williams
Cowboy movie star Ben Castle (Jack Carson) is a creampuff in real life who likes the ladies and gambling. After getting in trouble with the law, he calls on lawyer Abigail (Ginger Rogers) for help. Her "help" involves love, marriage, and a crusade to make Ben into the man reflected in his movies.
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Harlow 1965 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alex Segal
Cast: Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Barry Sullivan, Hurd Hatfield, Ginger Rogers, Hermione Baddeley, Lloyd Bochner, Robert Strauss, John Williams, Audrey Totter, Audrey Christie, Michael Dante, Jack Kruschen, Celia Lovsky, Sonny Liston
Carol Lynley takes on the role of movie star Jean Harlow in this screen biography. The story begins with Jean acting in Laurel and Hardy comedies and then finding stardom in "Hell's Angels." Her family life is not good, and her mother (Ginger Rogers) and stepfather (Barry Sullivan) take advantage of her. She marries movie producer Paul Bern (Hurd Hatfield), but the marriage ends when Paul commits suicide. Later, Louis B. Mayer (Jack Kruschen) offers Jean a big role, and she marries movie star William Mansfield (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). But, then she contracts uremia and dies at the age of 26.
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Heartbeat 1946 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou, Basil Rathbone, Melville Cooper, Mikhail Rasumny, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mona Maris, Henry Stephenson, Ivan Lebedeff, Bess Flowers, Torben Meyer, Eddie Hayden
After escaping from a reform school, Ariette (Ginger Rogers) returns to the life of a pickpocket in Paris. Now, she plies her trade on a young diplomat (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and ends up falling in love with him.
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I'll Be Seeing You 1944 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle, George Cukor
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully, Chill Wills, John Derek, Olin Howland, John James, Kenny Bowers, Gary Gray, Dorothy Stone, Eddie Hall, Margaret Bert, Earl Johnson
While serving time in prison for manslaughter, Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers) is given a prison furlough to visit relatives for Christmas. She meets Zachary Morgan (Joseph Cotten) while riding on a train, and the two fall in love. But, Zachary is a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Will they be able to deal with their pasts and form a relationship?
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Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman 1940 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Gladys Cooper, Ernest Cossart, Odette Myrtil, Mary Treen, K.T. Stevens, Walter Kingsford, Cecil Cunningham, Nella Walker, Edward Fielding, Kay Linaker, Richard Nichols
For her role as Kitty Foyle, Ginger Rogers won the Oscar for Best Actress. This is the story of Kitty's intimidation by the snobby, social class of her husband Wynnewood "Wyn" Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan) and her eventual happiness with another man, Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). The film also received four nominations, including Best Picture and Director.
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Lady in the Dark 1944 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Dram / Musical / Romance
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Jon Hall, Warner Baxter, Gail Russell, Barry Sullivan, Mischa Auer, Mary Philips, Rand Brooks, Phyllis Brooks, Edward Fielding, Mary Parker, Catherine Craig, Virginia Farmer, Fay Helm
This is the film adaptation of the hit Broadway play about magazine editor Liza Elliott (Ginger Rogers) who is on the verge of a mental breakdown. Although three men–Charley (Ray Milland), Kendall (Warner Baxter), and Randy (Jon Hall)–are romancing her, Liza is not happy and feels that she cannot control her own life. Liza is desperate and seeks psychoanalytic help from Dr. Brooks (Barry Sullivan) to solve her many indecisions.
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The Major and the Minor 1942 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Diana Lynn, Robert Benchley, Norma Varden, Will Wright, Edward Fielding, Charles Smith, Milton Kibbee
Billy Wilder made his directorial debut in this film about Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) who pretends to be a 12-year-old child so she can get a cheaper fare on the train. Once on board, she meets and falls in love with Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland) who does not realize that she is a grown woman. A very good comedy, even today.
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 Monkey Business 1952 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal, Robert Cornthwaite, Larry Keating, Harry Carey Jr., Douglas Spencer
Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant) is a chemist-genius who has been working on a formula to prevent aging. A monkey accidentally mixes the correct proportions into the elixir, which ends up in the Fulton's drinking water. After Barnaby and his wife, Edwina (Ginger Rogers), start drinking the tainted water, they revert to childhood.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon 1942 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harry Scott
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros, Harry Shannon, John Banner, Hans Conried, Emory Parnell
A burlesque queen (Ginger Rogers) is about to marry an important Nazi agent (Walter Slezak) but is rescued from her fate by a radio war correspondent (Cary Grant).
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The Primrose Path 1940 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory LaCava
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Miles Mander, Queenie Vassar, Joan Carroll, Vivienne Osborne, Carmen Morales, Nestor Paiva
Ellie May Adams (Ginger Rogers), a young woman from a family of dubious repute, marries Ed Wallace (Joel McCrea) but does not share her past history with him. When, inevitably, the past confronts them, their marriage becomes jeopardized.
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 Roberta 1935 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Claire Dodd, Luis Alberni, Lucille Ball, Victor Varconi, Ferdinand Munier, Torben Meyer, Adrian Rosley, Bodil Rosing, Lynne Carver, Mary Forbes
Football star John Kent (Randolph Scott) travels to Paris with "Huck" Haines' (Fred Astaire) band. But, when the band is told by the proprietor that he does not want them to perform, they head to John's Aunt Roberta's (Helen Westley) posh fashion boutique. They meet Huck's old girlfriend Lizzie (Ginger Rogers) who is now the singer Comtesse Schyarwenka, and she finds a job for the band. Meanwhile, Aunt Roberta passes away, and John inherits the boutique and enters into a partnership with Aunt Roberta's assistant Stephanie (Irene Dunne). This is a very early Astaire/Rogers pairing, and it is worthwhile viewing.
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Roxie Hart 1942 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley, Spring Byington, George Chandler, Sara Allgood
Based on Nunnally Johnson's play, this story is set in the 1920s. Dancer Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers) commits murder and then hires Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) to defend her. Flynn and his protege, Homer Howard (George Montgomery), publicize her story, and mayhem reigns in this farce.
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 Shall We Dance 1937 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan, Ketti Gallian, Ben Alexander, Matthew Boulton, Ann Shoemaker, Jack Rice, William Brisbane, Harriet Hoctor, Rolfe Sedan, Henry Mowbray, Torben Meyer
While crossing the Atlantic by steamer, Russian ballet dancer Petrov (Fred Astaire) and American musical-comedy star Linda Keene (Ginger Rogers) meet, and Linda's agent, Arthur Miller (Jerome Cowan), makes up a story and tells the press that they are married. When they reach New York, the story about their "secret" marriage is well publicized. Confusion and misunderstandings ensue, but, by story's end, Petrov and Linda discover true love. George and Ira Gershwin songs in this film are great and include "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," "They All Laughed," and "They Can't Take That Away from Me."
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A Shriek in the Night 1933 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Director: Albert Ray
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Purnell Pratt, Harvey Clark, Arthur Hoyt, Lillian Harmer, Maurice Black, Louise Beavers, Clarence Wilson, Cyril Ring, Tiny Sanford, Jim Farley, Dick Rush
Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot are reunited (after starring together in "The Thirteenth Guest"). This time they play rival reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Kord who team up to solve a series of murders in which the killer leaves a card behind that contains a drawing of a coiled snake.
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Sitting Pretty 1933 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Harry Joe Brown
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Thelma Todd, Gregory Ratoff, Lew Cody, Jerry Tucker, Hale Hamilton, Walter Walker, Kenneth Thomson, Charles Coleman, Wade Boteler
Struggling songwriters Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton (Jack Oakie and Jack Haley) leave New York and go to Hollywood to hit the big time. Dorothy (Ginger Rogers) joins them, and the fun begins.
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 Stage Door 1937 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Gregory LaCava
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Lucille Ball, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier, Samuel S. Hinds, Franklin Pangborn, William Corson, Pierre Watkin, Grady Sutton, Frank Reicher
Along with other aspiring thespians, Terry (Katharine Hepburn) and Jean (Ginger Rogers) live in a boarding house in New York. When Terry's wealthy father ensures her a starring role in a new production, repercussions include the suicide of the actress who really deserved that role and leads to the rise of maturity for Terry. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress (Andrea Leeds).
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Storm Warning 1951 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Lloyd Gough, Raymond Greenleaf, Ned Glass, Sean McClory, Mary Alan Hokanson, Paul E. Burns, Walter Baldwin, Lynn Whitney, Stuart Randall, Lillian Albertson
After witnessing a reporter's murder, Marsha (Ginger Rogers) learns that her own brother-in-law, Hank (Steve Cochran), is a member of the group of killers–the Ku Klux Klan. Marsha comes to the aid of District Attorney Burt Rainey (Ronald Reagan) in solving the crime.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 1939 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Etienne Girardot, Janet Beecher, Rolfe Sedan, Donald MacBride, Marge Champion, Leonid Kinskey, Lew Fields, Robert Strange, Douglas Walton, Clarence Derwent, Frances Mercer
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers portray the popular dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle who made ballroom dancing popular in the early 20th century. The story begins with Irene and Vernon meeting, falling in love, and marrying. Irene talks Vernon, who is a vaudeville comic, into joining her as a ballroom dancer. With help from their agent, Maggie Sutton (Edna May Oliver), they become stars. Then World War I begins, and Vernon serves as a pilot with the Canadian Royal Flying Corps, but Irene's dreams are shattered when Vernon is killed in a training accident.
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 Swing Time 1936 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Pierre Watkin, Georges Metaxa, Gerald Hamer, Edgar Dearing, Ralph Byrd, Fern Emmett, Frank Mills, Landers Stevens, Bess Flowers
A gambler, John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire), arrives late and misses his wedding to Margaret (Betty Furness). Now he must prove that he is worthy of marrying her in the future. He goes to New York where he has an on-again, off-again romance with dance instructor Penelope "Penny" Carroll (Ginger Rogers). By story's end, Penny escapes her own wedding to Ricky (Georges Metaxa), and "Lucky" and Penny are reunited. Jerome Kern wrote the score, which includes "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Never Gonna Dance." The first of these won the Oscar for Best Song. One of the pair's best.
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Tales of Manhattan 1942 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, J. Carrol Naish, Elsa Lanchester
This comedy/drama/mystery is the story of an expensive coat that appears cursed as it passes from one owner to another, and those who wear it suffer bad luck.
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The Thirteenth Guest 1932 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Lady Beware
Director: Albert Ray
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, J. Farrell MacDonald, James Eagles, Eddie Phillips, Erville Alderson, Paul Hurst, Crauford Kent, Ethel Wales, Phillips Smalley, Tom London, John Ince, Frances Rich, Al Bridge, William B. Davidson
Thirteen years ago the host of a dinner party died at the table after naming the person who would inherit his house. Twelve of the 13 invited guests were on hand, with the heir being the only absentee. Now, after the mansion had been closed up all these years, bodies start showing up at the table in the same chair that each was in at the dinner. Phil (Lyle Talbot), a playboy sleuth, is called in to solve the case and bring the hooded killer to justice.
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 Top Hat 1935  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Lucille Ball, Donald Meek, Leonard Mudie, Florence Roberts, Dennis O'Keefe, Edgar Norton, Tom Ricketts, Leonard Mudie
This is the "best of the best" of Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals in which they perform their exquisite dance, "Cheek to Cheek." American entertainer Jerry Travers (Astaire) and wealthy Dale Tremont (Rogers) meet and fall in love in London, but problems enter the scene when Dale thinks that Jerry is her best friend Madge's (Helen Broderick) new husband. Actually, Madge's new husband is Jerry's business manager Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). Will Dale's case of mistaken identity be cleared up in time for Dale and Jerry to live happily ever after? The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.
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Vivacious Lady 1938 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson, Franklin Pangborn, Lloyd Ingraham, Hattie McDaniel, Grady Sutton
After their romantic fling, a young professor (James Stewart) marries a beautiful singer (Ginger Rogers) and finds his small-town college community is not quite ready to accept its newest citizen. 1 User Review
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| | Marnie 12/15/2007 | | A very young Jimmy Stewart, and Ginger Rogers. This movie has an endearing quality, I hated to see it end. Ginger Rogers was especially fabulous as the street smart, wise cracking new young bride to Jimmy Stewart, who comes from a background of fuddy duddy professors. His background is so straightlaced, they are afraid to tell his parents (especially Jimmy's grumpy professor father) that they're married! Then the fun really begins. Ginger sparks it up a bit, with her gammon quality, charm, and slapstick antics, as she is ready to punch her husband's 'girlfriend' in the nose during a formal party attended by the small town elite. The girlfriend has her own problems, and then there is Jimmy's friend that finds Ginger VERY charming. Ginger dances a little bit, but her gift of comedy really shines here. I love her dancing movies, but I really loved this movie, because you saw more of the woman's funny wit, charm, and charactor, and less fru fru Hollywood. For those who like to see their favorite stars step 'out of the box' once in a while, this is a must see! My only regret is I cannot buy this movie in DVD. |
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Weekend at the Waldorf 1945 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Robert Benchley, Edward Arnold, Leon Ames, Phyllis Thaxter, Keenan Wynn, George Zucco
Weekend guests at New York's largest hotel include a movie star, a war correspondent, a soldier, and a reporter whose lives intersect at this particular time and place.
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We're Not Married 1952 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Fred Allen, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi Gaynor, Louis Calhern
A number of couples are happily married–until they learn that their marriage ceremonies were not legal.
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1. 42nd Street (1933)
2. Bachelor Mother (1939)
3. The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
4. Black Widow (1954)
5. Carefree (1938)
6. Change of Heart (1934)
7. Cinderella (1965)
aka: Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
8. The Confession (1964)
aka: Quick, Let's Get Married
aka: Seven Different Ways
9. The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
10. Flying Down to Rio (1933)
11. Follow the Fleet (1936)
12. Forever Female (1953)
13. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
14. George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)
15. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
16. The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
17. Harlow (1965)
18. Heartbeat (1946)
19. I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
20. Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940)
21. Lady in the Dark (1944)
22. The Major and the Minor (1942)
23. Monkey Business (1952)
24. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
25. The Primrose Path (1940)
26. Roberta (1935)
27. Roxie Hart (1942)
28. Shall We Dance (1937)
29. A Shriek in the Night (1933)
30. Sitting Pretty (1933)
31. Stage Door (1937)
32. Storm Warning (1951)
33. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
34. Swing Time (1936)
35. Tales of Manhattan (1942)
36. The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
aka: Lady Beware
37. Top Hat (1935)
38. Vivacious Lady (1938)
39. Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
40. We're Not Married (1952)
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