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Ginger Rogers - what members say
review by A customer from London
The best ever Astaire Rogers? 6 January 2005
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Fred and Ginger on form... 15 April 2005
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Fred & Ginger - what a treat! 1 February 2005
Ginger Rogers - filmography
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Tight Spot
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith
Director: Phil Karlson
Certificate: 
A former gangster's mistress is moved from prison to a hotel in the hope that she will testify against her former lover. If she testifies she faces the risk of assassination. If she doesn't testify, she will face the anger of attorney Hallet.
 
56%
from 62 members
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We're Not Married
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Paul Douglas, Fred Allen
Director: Edmund Goulding
Certificate: 
In WE'RE NOT MARRIED, five couples find out that they are not legally married and react in all sorts of different ways (most are pretty overjoyed) in this anthology of comic vignettes. Marilyn Monroe plays a beauty queen whose husband, stuck at home with the baby, sees this turn of events as ..read more »
53%
from 350 members
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Monkey Business
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers star in this classic - comedy about a alchemist who discovers the secret of eternal youth. For years, Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Grant) has been working on a youth-restoring serum with little success - until the day a chimpanzee gets loose in the lab and ..read more »
63%
from 1,176 member
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The Barkleys Of Broadway
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Director: Charles Walters
Certificate:
A story which centres on a bickering showbiz couple. Songs include 'They Can't Take That Away From Me' and 'A Weekend In The Country'. Lennie Hayton is the music director, with music and lyrics by Harry Warren and Ira Gershwin.
63%
from 572 members
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It Had To Be You
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde
Director: Don Hartman, Rudolph Mate
Certificate:
A screwball comedy in which Ginger Rogers plays a woman who has left three grooms standing at the altar is set to do the same thing to a fourth man. But will wedding bells ever finally ring?
50%
from 83 members
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The Major And The Minor
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Director: Garson Kanin, Billy Wilder
Certificate:
New York working girl Ginger Rogers is desparate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Ray Milland, an Army major teaching at a military school., who takes her under his wing.
72%
from 58 members
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Roxie Hart
(1942)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Nigel Bruce, Ted North
Director: William A. Wellman
Certificate: 
To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don't seem to let dames swing, and even with top slippery lawyer Billy Flynn, it's all something of a gamble.
61%
from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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Tales of Manhattan
(1942)
Starring: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers
Director: Julien Duvivier
Certificate:
An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the four succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth.
65%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Tom, Dick and Harry
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal
Director: Garson Kanin
Certificate:
Ginger Rogers, a telephone operator, is pursued by George Murphy (a down-to earth fellow), Alan Marshal (a rich man) and Burgess Meredith (a noncomformist). She dreams what life would be like married to each of them.
53%
from 30 members
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Kitty Foyle
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig
Director: Sam Wood
Certificate:
Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms of "Fred Astaire's partner." Others considered her a delightful comedienne, but no great shakes as a dramatic actress. Thus it was both a personal and professional triumph ..read more »
64%
from 27 members
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The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle
(1939)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Janet Beecher
Director: H. C Potter
Certificate:
Who else but the fabulous Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the greatest dancing team of all time, could portray Vernon & Irene Castle, the renowned ballroom dancers of the years preceding World War I? Fred and Ginger dance up a storm as they dramatize the careers of the Castles. The pair first unite ..read more »
70%
from 197 members
Not currently released
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Vivacious Lady
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were an item when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one another pours over onto the screen. Stewart plays Peter Morgan, a young botany professor who while on a visit to New York impulsively marries free-spirited nightclub singer ..read more »
64%
from 33 members
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Carefree
(1938)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Mark Sandrich
Certificate:
A comic Astaire/Rogers pairing that's more madcap than most. When stuffed-shirt Bellamy (and who can play that part better?) sends his dizzy radio-singer fiancee to a shrink to find out why she won't settle down, the dancing analyst opens her to the possibility of love and then sees his happiness ..read more »
68%
from 440 members
Not currently released
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Stage Door
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
Director: Gregory La Cava
Certificate:
The old adage - that there is a broken heart for every light on Broadway - is brought to life in this four-times Oscar nominated blockbuster adapted from the long running Broadway stage play. Ginger Rogers, Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Gail Patrick and Andrea Leeds star as a bevy of highly-..read more »
79%
from 97 members
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Shall We Dance
(1937)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Director: Mark Sandrich
Certificate:
After their roaring success in Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet and Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance is another classic Rogers/Astaire partnership. The film includes one of the best known and fondly remembered dance routines ever performed by them in 'Let's Call the Whole Thing Off', all on roller-..read more »
70%
from 1,034 member
Not currently released
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Follow the Fleet
(1936)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable
Director: Mark Sandrich
Certificate:
When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner. Features the classic hits 'Let's Face The Music And Dance', 'But Where Are You', 'Get Thee Behind Me Satan', and many other great numbers. Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.
69%
from 648 members
Not currently released
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Swing Time
(1935)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
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The fifth sublime teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, SWING TIME is regarded by many as their finest film. The tenuous plot, which mainly serves to connect the brilliant dance numbers, concerns John Lucky Garnett (Astaire), a gambler and professional dancer. When Garnett arrives late to his ..read more »
74%
from 1,074 member
Not currently released
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Top Hat
(1935)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Director: Mark Sandrich
Certificate:
One of the best of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, Top Hat centers on a typical mistaken-identity plot. Following a case of mistaken identity, dancer Jerry (Astaire) follows Dale (Rogers), the girl of his dreams, to Europe and tries to win her heart through song and dance routines...
73%
from 2,105 members
Not currently released
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Roberta
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Irene Dunne
Director: William A. Seiter
Certificate:
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Ginger plays a mysterious countess and Fred a band leader in this exuberant musical set in Paris. Adapted from the Broadway hit by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach with songs 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' and 'Lovely to Look At.' Lucille Ball has a cameo role in the fashion show sequence. Academy Award ..read more »
71%
from 205 members
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The Gay Divorcee
(1934)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Eric Blore
Director: Mark Sandrich
Certificate:
Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent
74%
from 456 members
Not currently released
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Flying Down to Rio
(1933)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Dolores Del Rio
Director: Thornton Freeland
Certificate:
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Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. His Yankee Clippers band is hired to open the new Hotel Atlantico in Rio and ..read more »
66%
from 269 members
Not currently released
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42nd Street
on DVD
(1933)
Starring: Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Certificate:
The quintessential backstage musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to opening night. Warner Baxter plays famed director Julian Marsh, who despite failing health is determined to stage one last great production, Pretty Lady. Others involved include ..read more »
67%
from 939 members
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Shriek In The Night
(1933)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark
Director: Albert Ray
Certificate:
Reporter Ted Rand (Lyle Talbot) arrives to investigate the mysterious death of a millionaire, only to find his chief rival, Pat Morgan (Ginger Rogers) already on the scene. Three Subsequent murders follow, and the police and newspapers alike are unable to uncover the killer in their midst. When ..read more »
70%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Fred And Ginger
(8 discs)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Director: Mark Sandrich
Certificate:
Box Set - Contains The Following Films:
Top Hat
Follow The Fleet
Shall We Dance
Carefree
The Gay Divorcee
Swing Time
Flying Down To Rio
The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle
67%
from 43 members
Not currently released
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Ginger Rogers facts
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...This is part of a 4-set box of classic 30s musicals featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This is probably the best one - Irving Berlin score, art deco sets, wonderf...
