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Ginger Rogers

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Actress

The Resume

    (July 16, 1911-April 25, 1995)
    Birth name was Virginia Katherine McMath
    Won the 1940 Oscar for Best Actress (Kitty Foyle)
    Appeared in '42nd Street (1933),' 'Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933),' 'Professional Sweetheart (1933),' 'Flying Down to Rio (1933),' 'Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934),' 'Gay Divorcee,' 'The (1934),' 'Roberta (1935),' 'Top Hat (1935),' 'Follow the Fleet (1936),' 'Swing Time (1936),' 'Shall We Dance? (1937),' 'Stage Door (1937),' 'Vivacious Lady (1938),' 'Kitty Foyle (1940),' 'Major and the Minor (1942),' 'Lady in the Dark (1944),' 'Barkleys of Broadway (1949),' 'Storm Warning (1951),' 'Monkey Business (1952),' 'Dreamboat (1952),' 'Cinderella (1965)' and 'Harlow (1965)'

Why she might be annoying:

    She was a Christian Scientist.
    She was married and divorced five times.
    She said: 'They're not going to get my money to see the junk that's made today (1983).'
    She ranked #7 in 1963 on Mr. Blackwell's Worst Dress List.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1995.
    Her grandmother on her mother's side was a descendent of George Washington.
    She neither smoked nor drank (the bar at her house was stocked with ice-cream sodas).
    Ginger and Fred Astaire were one of the best cinematic couples ever to hit the silver screen.
    She suffered with diabetes in her final years and a lot of the time was wheelchair bound.
    She directed her first stage musical,'Babes In Arms,' at 74.
    She was interred at Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, California, USA, the same cemetery as long-time dancing/acting partner Fred Astaire is located.

Credit: Cosmic Princess


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 76 Votes: 53.95% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 70 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 97 Votes: 56.70% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 30 Votes: 43.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 43 Votes: 74.42% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 26 Votes: 15.38% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 27 Votes: 40.74% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 40 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 73 Votes: 50.68% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 27 Votes: 62.96% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 288 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 106 Votes: 39.62% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 64 Votes: 39.06% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 310 Votes: 43.87% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 286 Votes: 42.31% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 672 Votes: 41.82% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 577 Votes: 49.05% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 696 Votes: 50.72% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 1836 Votes: 51.96% Annoying