Movie Posters

Photoplay magazine cover      January 1937

I'd like to start with this:  on archive.org there are some digitized posters from movies starring Miss Ginger Rogers.  They can be downloaded from archive.org.  There is a link, on the page where they are available to download, that describes the content to have "No Copyright".  I don't know if this is true or not.  The posters are various versions of the advertising posters from the movies, originals and re-releases, so that might mean they were intended for public distribution and therefore, that might mean - no copyright.

I am not a lawyer, and I don't care to become one, so I'll leave it at this:  Below are URL addresses where you can find the posters on archive.org.  If you want to download them, that is up to you.

Here is the address for the copyright details:
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

And here is the address for the posters featuring Ginger Rogers (and many more featuring other stars):

http://archive.org/details/PostersLobbyCardsMusicSheetsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHoolywood

Specific movies:

A Chance at Heaven
http://ia601507.us.archive.org/33/items/PostersLobbyCardsMusicSheetsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHoolywood/AChanceAtHeaven.jpg

Flying Down to Rio
http://ia701507.us.archive.org/33/items/PostersLobbyCardsMusicSheetsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHoolywood/FlyingDownToRio.jpg

Roberta
http://ia601507.us.archive.org/33/items/PostersLobbyCardsMusicSheetsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHoolywood/RobertaWC.jpg

Shall We Dance
http://ia701507.us.archive.org/33/items/PostersLobbyCardsMusicSheetsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHoolywood/ShallWeDance.jpg
 
Swing Time
http://ia601507.us.archive.org/33/items/PostersLobbyCardsMusicSheetsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHoolywood/swingtime.jpg

Top Hat  (Majestic Theater advertisement)
http://ia701507.us.archive.org/33/items/PostersLobbyCardsMusicSheetsFromTheGoldenAgeOfHoolywood/TopHat3.jpg


Not exactly a poster, this item is for the cover of some sheet music of the song "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking" from the movie Sitting Pretty with Ginger Rogers:
http://archive.org/details/SheetMusicFromTheGoldenAgeOfHollywood
For just the image of the cover:
http://ia601505.us.archive.org/31/items/SheetMusicFromTheGoldenAgeOfHollywood/SittingPretty.jpg


On a different page, you can find a poster for the movie Storm Warning.  There are NO details as to whether there is any copyright on the items presented on this page:
http://archive.org/details/BritishAndHollywoodMoviePostersPostcardsAndPortraits1920sTo1950s-
For just the image of the Storm Warning poster:
http://ia601504.us.archive.org/30/items/BritishAndHollywoodMoviePostersPostcardsAndPortraits1920sTo1950s-/StormWarning1951.jpg
There is a small article about Ginger Rogers, mentioning Fred Astaire, and some words about Alice Faye on the same page.  There is no mention of what magazine it is from but you might be able to guess the date:
http://ia601504.us.archive.org/30/items/BritishAndHollywoodMoviePostersPostcardsAndPortraits1920sTo1950s-/AliceFayeGingerRogerAndFredAstaire..jpg

The items below are posters from Swing Time and Shall We Dance, in French:  (updated Jan 19, 2013)

They are from a magazine called La Cinematographie Francaise from April 30, 1937 and available in the Media History Digital Library.  Below are the URL addresses so that you may peruse the magazine, but only if you can read French, unlike me:
http://archive.org/stream/lacinmato65pari#page/n769/mode/2up - Swing Time
http://archive.org/stream/lacinmato65pari#page/n775/mode/2up - Shall We Dance

For more information or to see the posters separately, go to this blog page:
http://thegingerrogersresouce.blogspot.com/2013/01/la-cinematographie-francaise-1937.html


A large number of advertisements from movie magazines for movies featuring the one and only Miss Ginger Rogers are on this blog page:
http://thegingerrogersresouce.blogspot.com/2013/02/magazine-movie-ads.html


Pictures of Ginger from magazines can be found on these blog pages:
http://thegingerrogersresouce.blogspot.com/2013/07/photoplay-magazine-color-pictures.html


Photoplay magazine image at top of page available here:
http://archive.org/stream/photoplayvolume551chicx#page/n3/mode/2up

Soundtrack Recordings

Miss Ginger Rogers lent her voice to many a recording of song.  A few of the soundtracks from the movies she starred in with Fred Astaire can be found on archive.org.  All the information below can also be found on the "Ginger Sings" page of this blog.
http://thegingerrogersresouce.blogspot.com/2012/09/ginger-sings.html

Motion Picture magazine     October 1936

Swing Time (1936) and The Gay Divorcee (1934).  The items featuring Ginger Rogers singing are:

• "A Fine Romance" duet with Fred Astaire
• "Swing Time" (1936) finale duet with Fred Astaire, Helen Broderick, Victor Young and Georges Metaxa
• "Pick Yourself Up" duet with Fred Astaire with extended music and dancing sounds
• "The Continental" with Erick Rhodes and ensemble plus some words from Fred Astaire; includes closing credits music

The songs that Fred Astaire sang in those movies are also on the same page including:  "Never Gonna Dance", "Bojangles of Harlem", "The Way You Look Tonight", "A Needle in a Haystack", and "Night and Day" plus the song "Let's Knockaknees" and the music for "Waltz in Swingtime", dancing sounds included, with introduction dialogue by Fred Astaire and Georges Metaxa.
http://archive.org/details/Swingtime1936AndTheGayDivorcee1934

Photoplay magazine   June 1937

Shall We Dance (1937) with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.  Ginger sings:

• "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" duet with Fred Astaire, with some of the skating sounds from the dance
• "They All Laughed"

The songs that Fred Astaire sang in this movie are also on the same page including: "I've Got Beginners Luck", "Slap That Bass" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me"
http://archive.org/details/ShallWeDance1937FredAstaireAndGingerRogers

Motion Picture magazine     March 1935

Top Hat (1935) and The Gay Divorcee (1934) also only has 2 songs by Ginger:

• "The Continental" with Erick Rhodes and ensemble plus some words from Fred Astaire; includes closing credits music
• "The Piccolino" with music from the dance and dancing sounds and the music from the finale dance of Top Hat

The songs that Fred Astaire sang in those movies are also on the same page including: "A Needle in a Haystack", "Night and Day", "Cheek to Cheek", "Isn't It a Lovely Day to Get Caught in the Rain", "No Strings" and "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails".
http://archive.org/details/TopHat1935AndTheGayDivorcee1934


Just in case you missed the movies in their first run, here are a few reviews so you can catch up on the plots.

Motion Picture magazine   January 1935

Motion Picture magazine   November 1935

Motion Picture magazine   November 1936

Photoplay magazine    June 1937

Images above can be found in the Media History Digital Library:
Swing Time poster -
 http://archive.org/stream/motionpicture52moti#page/n189/mode/2up
"Cutest Shot of the Month" from Shall We Dance-
 http://archive.org/stream/photoplayvolume551chicx#page/n691/mode/2up
Continental dance still from The Gay Divorcee -
 http://archive.org/stream/motionpicture49moti#page/n119/mode/2up
The Gay Divorcee review -
 http://archive.org/stream/motionpicture48moti#page/64/mode/2up
Top Hat review -
 http://archive.org/stream/motionpicture50moti#page/n307/mode/2up 
Swing Time review -
 http://archive.org/stream/motionpicture52moti#page/n285/mode/2up
Shall We Dance? review -
 http://archive.org/stream/photoplayvolume551chicx#page/n661/mode/2up