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Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and was best known as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. She achieved great success on her own in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). She ranks #14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of actress screen legends.
Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, the only child of William Eddins McMath, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Lela Emogene (née Owens; 1891–1977). Ginger's parents separated soon after her birth, and she and her mother went to live with her grandparents, Walter and Saphrona (née Ball) Owens, in nearby Kansas City. Rogers' parents fought over her custody. After her mother denied him visitation, her father reportedly absconded with his daughter twice. After her parents divorced, Rogers stayed with her grandparents while her mother wrote scripts for two years in Hollywood. Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather (much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California so that he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios).[citation needed]
Actors: Richard Nixon (actor), Ken Howard (actor), David Hill (actor), Dermot Mulroney (actor), Lyndon Johnson (actor), Josh Lucas (actor), David Clennon (actor), Damon Herriman (actor), Robert Armstrong (actor), Martin Luther King (actor), Josh Hamilton (actor), Jack Donner (actor), Leonardo DiCaprio (actor), Stephen Root (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor),
Plot: Biopic of J. Edgar Hoover told by Hoover as he recalls his career for a biography. Early in his career, Hoover fixated on Communists, anarchists and any other revolutionary taking action against the U.S. government. He slowly builds the agency's reputation, becoming the sole arbiter of who gets hired and fired. One of his hires is Clyde Tolson who is quickly promoted to Assistant Director and would be Hoover's confidant and companion for the rest of Hoover's life. Hoover's memories have him playing a greater role in the many high profile cases the FBI was involved in - the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the arrest of bank robbers like John Dillinger - and also show him to be quite adept at manipulating the various politicians he's worked with over his career, thanks in large part to his secret files.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, airplane, alvin-karpis, ambition, anarchist, anti-communism, archival-footageActors: Joseph McConnell (director), Joseph McConnell (writer), Joseph McConnell (producer), Joseph McConnell (actor), John Migdal (actor), Sam Masotto (actor), Hunter Schlesinger (actor), Hunter Schlesinger (actor), Mike Hoffmann (actor), Gina Musumeci (actress), Grace Matias (actress), Leech Ernowetz (composer), Sander Folsom (actor), Robert Weba (actor), Nicholas Greco (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi,Actors: Melvyn Hayes (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Bruce Boa (actor), Keenan Wynn (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Sylvaine Charlet (actress), George Fowler (writer), Peter Curran (writer), Peter Curran (director), Peter Curran (editor), Hilary Pritchard (actress), Bruce Kenny (actor), Elizabeth Curran (producer), David Kawandami (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jack Haley (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Cary Grant (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), Sammy Blum (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Earle S. Dewey (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Neely Edwards (actor), Sam Harris (actor),
Plot: This Broadway revue is about two love affairs. The romance between the comedienne Joan Mason and Jack Evans of Boston is easily disturbed by Jack's cynical sister, Clara Belle Evans, who is against their relationship. The romance between the wealthy British Jill Martin and Tom McGrath, the assistant to the impresario George White Brodway is a love hate relationship. Gene Krupa and his band keep, together with the virtuoso organist Ethel Smith, both couples dancing a lot.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, archive-footage, backstage, band-member, bandleader, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, burlesqueActors: James Conaty (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), Scotty Beckett (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Wally Albright (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Granville Bates (actor), Tommy Bupp (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), William B. Davidson (actor),
Genres: Comedy,