Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers, born Virginia Katherine McMath (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995)

During her long career, she made 73 films, collaborating with Fred Astaire as a romantic lead actress 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' film career entered a period of gradual decline in the 1950s, as parts for older actresses became more difficult to obtain, but she still scored with some solid movies. She starred in Storm Warning (1950) with Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, and in Monkey Business (1952) with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe. After years of declining health, Ginger Rogers died of a heart attack at age 83 in 1995, and buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Chatsworth, CA.