Movies

Photoplay magazine (ad for the purse)  October 1934

Movies are what Miss Ginger Rogers is best known for and there are a few in the public domain and on archive.org.  The quality of the movies is pretty good but the sound is low on some of them.  There are several listed for most of them but the quality doesn't vary much from one to the other.  The Flying Down to Rio trailer is rather low quality and some of it seems like it is missing.

I would like to add that Blogger.com, in my opinion, sucks and is difficult to deal with.  If I had known then what I know now, I would have posted all of this information somewhere else.

Trailers:

42nd Street :

• http://archive.org/details/TheatricalTrailerFor42ndStreet

Barkleys of Broadway :

• http://archive.org/details/TheatricalTrailer-TheBarkleysOfBroadway 
• http://archive.org/details/AGalaxyOfStarsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHollywood  Look for "Theatrical Trailer - The Barkleys of Broadway"
• http://archive.org/details/JamesWhalesBRIDEOFFRANKENSTEINTrailer1935FreeDownloadStreamingInternetArchive  Look for "Theatrical Trailer - The Barkleys of Broadway", this is the same as the item listed above.  The player doesn't play the right trailers but the downloads work fine so scroll down the page to find what you want.  (updated March 6, 2013)

Flying Down to Rio :

• http://archive.org/details/flying_down_to_rio

Gay Divorcee :

• http://archive.org/details/TheatricalTrailer-TheGayDivorcee

Gold Diggers of 1933 :

• http://archive.org/details/AGalaxyOfStarsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHollywood 
• http://archive.org/details/TheatricalTrailerForgoldDiggersOf1933 

Rafter Romance :

• http://archive.org/details/Rafter_RomanceTrailer

Storm Warning :

• http://archive.org/details/TheatricalTrailerForstormWarning

Swing Time :

• http://archive.org/details/TheatricalTrailerForswingTime
• http://archive.org/details/Trailers1930sHollywoodVol2.21-40
• http://archive.org/details/AGalaxyOfStarsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHollywood

Top Hat :

• http://archive.org/details/AGalaxyOfStarsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHollywood

Movies:

The Groom Wore Spurs :  (Does anyone know why neither Ginger Rogers nor Jack Carson are listed in the opening credits of this movie?) 

• http://archive.org/details/GroomWoreSpursThe

Heartbeat :

• http://archive.org/details/Heartbeat_347
• http://archive.org/details/heartbeat 

Once Upon a Honeymoon :
Also starring Cary Grant

• http://archive.org/details/OnceUponAHoneymoon

Note: I don't expect the item above to stick around.  I don't think it is in the public domain but maybe this particular version is?  All the same, don't be surprised if you come back and this item is gone.

 

Shriek in the Night :
Also starring Lyle Talbot

• http://archive.org/details/A_Shriek_in_the_Night

• http://archive.org/details/A.Shriek.in.the.Night

Thirteenth Guest :
Also starring Lyle Talbot

• http://archive.org/details/thirteenth_guest

• http://archive.org/details/The_Thirteenth_Guest

The version below is a public access TV show, "Weirdness Really Bad Movie", that featured public domain movies and original sketches homemade in Ohio.

• http://archive.org/details/ThirteenthGuest_WeirdnessBadMovie_945 

Young Man of Manhattan :  
Also starring Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster and Charles Ruggles

• http://archive.org/details/YoungManOfManhattan1930

There is also a clip of the "Yama Yama Man" song and dance Ginger performed in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle with a note that it might or might not be in the public domain:

• http://archive.org/details/TheStoryOfVernonAndIreneCastle-TheYamaYamaManRoutine

Newsreels:

Universal Newsreel :  dated March 4, 1941;  Ginger Rogers gets her Academy Award, aka Oscar, for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle.  You have to wait until after President Roosevelt speaks or go to minute 1:30.

• http://archive.org/details/1941-03-04_Screen_Notables_Hear_Roosevelt

Photoplay magazine image above available at:

http://archive.org/stream/photo47chic#page/n471/mode/2up