The Ginger Rogers Resource: July 2013

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Happy Birthday, Ginger!

Hollywood magazine September 1934

Happy Birthday to Miss Ginger Rogers. In a toast to the lady who gave so much to the world in the form of entertainment, here is an interview that I found floating around on the internet.

NOTE: This item IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!

The Montana Memory Project has an interview with Miss Ginger Rogers by Rosetta Kamlowsky that was recorded for KBLL Radio on June 7, 1974. It was contributed to the collection by the Montana Historical Society Research Center.

Ginger gives a brief history of herself, talks about her career, gives some commentary on the state of Hollywood "today" and more. The sound of the recording is quite good, despite some sirens going by at one point. It is only 7 minutes and 26 seconds, but at least it can be heard. Listen for it here:

http://cdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p103401coll30/id/32/rec/5

NOTE, again: This item IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!

Another interview that is NOT in the public domain is here:
http://bobbiewygant.blogspot.com/2010/11/bobbie-wygant-interviews-ginger-rogers.html
This is a video of Ginger being interviewed by Bobbie Wygant. (I've seen this interview on You Tube as well.) Ginger was in Texas at the time but there isn't a date when the interview took place. Ginger and Bobbie talk about film preservation and Ginger alludes to her autobiography, which had not yet been published at the time. So maybe the date is the late 80's? Thanks to Bobbie Wygant for preserving this interview.
And again, this video is

NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

What else can be said but, here's looking at you, Ginger. Happy Birthday! And have some cake.

New Movie Magazine November 1934

Ginger Rogers enjoys her birthday cake with the cast of The Gay Divorce: (left-right) Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger, Erik Rhodes, Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton. (the caption in the magazine has the movie title as The Gay Divorce)

The photo at the top of the page is from the Media History Digital Library:
http://archive.org/stream/hollywood23holl#page/n555/mode/2up
and so is the picture of Ginger's birthday party
http://archive.org/stream/newmoviemagazine10weir#page/n503/mode/2up

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Photoplay Magazine Color/Colorized Pictures

Here are a few color photos of Miss Ginger Rogers from Photoplay magazine. They can be found in the Media History Digital Library, along with a lot of others that aren't as colorful. It is a treat for me to see Miss Ginger in color. It seems odd that a woman who was so colorful, and liked to dress so colorfully, was almost always seen in black and white during her movie career. To see her in color, you had to watch her live. I guess it goes to show that there is nothing more colorful than real life.