Ginger Rogers

The Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in Medford, Oregon is named in her honor. Her autobiography (written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball) is punningly entitled Cybill Disobedience (ISBN 0061030147). Ginger Rogers died in 1995 and was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. In the 1990s she starred in Cybill, a television sitcom in which the title character was roughly modelled on herself: an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps, a role for which she won her third Golden Globe award. In 1961, she married her fifth husband, director and producer William Marshall, but separated from him within weeks of their marriage, eventually divorcing him in 1969. In the 1980s she starred opposite Bruce Willis in the television series Moonlighting (1985-89), a lighthearted combination of mystery and comedy, winning two Golden Globe awards for her role as Maddie Hayes. In 1953, she married her fourth husband, lawyer Jacques Bergerac (16 years her junior, he became an actor and then a cosmetics company executive); they divorced in 1957 and he soon remarried actress Dorothy Malone. Her later films were less successful.

In 1943, she married her third husband, Jack Briggs, a Marine; they divorced in 1949. Director Peter Bogdanovich spotted her on the cover of a magazine and gave her a role in The Last Picture Show (1971); after several films the next big step was Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). In 1934, she married her second husband, actor Lew Ayres (1908–1996); they separated quickly and were divorced in 1941. Cybill Shepherd is an American actress, born 18 February 1950, Memphis, Tennessee. Shepherd's career as a model started in her teens. She first married her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper) on March 29, 1929; they divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. The Last Picture Show (1971). This close mother-daughter relationship has been proffered to explain at least in part Rogers's history of marital disappointment. The Heartbreak Kid (1972).

She was a conservative Republican politically, and lived for much of her life with her mother, Lela Owens McMath Rogers (1891–1977), a Christian Scientist who was a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, movie producer, one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps, and a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Daisy Miller (1974). In 1940 Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her starring role in Kitty Foyle. At Long Last Love (1975). In 1939, she played opposite David Niven in Bachelor Mother. Taxi Driver (1976). Her first roles were in a trio of short films made in 1929 — Night in the Dormitory, A Day of a Man of Affairs, and Campus Sweethearts. Special Delivery (aka Dangerous Break) (1976).

She is most remembered as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten all-singing all-dancing Hollywood musicals, but her acting career spanned over thirty years. Silver Bears (1977). Virginia Katherine McMath (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995), better known as Ginger Rogers, was an American actress and dancer. The Lady Vanishes (1979) (remake of a Hitchcock classic). Variants include "Astaire gave her class, and Rogers gave him sex" and "He gave her class, and she gave him sex.". Americathon (1979) (minor appearance). "Fred gave Ginger class, and Ginger gave Fred sex." Katharine Hepburn, actress. The Return (aka The Alien's Return aka Earthright) (1980).

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards and in high heels." Faith Whittlesey, former US ambassador to Switzerland. Responsibility for this quote also has been traced to a 1982 Frank and Ernest cartoon. Chances Are (1989). Texasville (1990). Alice (1990). Married to It (1991).

Once Upon a Crime... (1992). The Last Word (aka Cosa Nostra: The Last Word) (1994). The Muse (1999). Marine Life (2000).

Open Window (2005).