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VIRGINIA KATHERINE MCMATH was born on July 16, 1911 in Independence, Missouri. Her mother, Lela Owens McMath had recently separated from Virginia's father, Eddins McMath, and brought Virginia up with the help of her parents, Walter and Saphrona Owens of Kansas City. The separation was not a pleasant one, and Virginia's father twice kidnapped her (once when she was less than a year old and again two years later) during a custody dispute with Lela. Finally the two divorced and young Virginia went to live with her grandparents in Kansas City while her mother worked for two years in Hollywood writing screenplays, and later in New York City where Virginia joined her for a time. Also living with her grandparents in Kansas City were several of Virginia's cousins, one of whom couldn't pronounce her name and called her "Jinja." Needless to say, it stuck.
In 1920, Ginger's mother married insurance salesman John Logan Rogers and the family of three moved to Fort Worth, Texas. Though she was never formally adopted, Ginger took her step-father's name. While the freckle-faced young tomboy went to school, her mother took a job as a theatre critic for the Fort Worth Record. Ginger's early career aspirations included being a school teacher, but the exposure to the theatre which resulted from her mother's work altered this path. She began to learn songs and dances from the performers as she hung around backstage at the Majestic Theater, waiting for her mother.
Though Ginger had acted in school plays, her professional career began one night when the famous vaudeville dancing team of Eddie Foy and his children needed a substitute, and Ginger, who had learned the Charleston backstage from Eddie Foy, Jr., filled in. The Charleston became Ginger's key to stardom. In 1925 at the age of 14, she entered and won a Texas state Charleston contest. The prize was a contract for a four-week vaudeville tour. With her mother at her side, Ginger and her Redheads (as the act was called) turned four weeks into twenty-one, and even after the act broke up and the Rogers returned to Fort Worth, they weren't out of the business for long. Ginger spent the next four years with her mother, touring vaudeville circuits.
On March 29, 1929 at the age of seventeen, Ginger married a fellow vaudeville hoofer named Jack Culpepper whom she had known in Texas. Although their divorce was not finalized until 1931, the marriage lasted only a few months and Ginger was soon back on the road with her mother. Later that year she hit New York City, continuing her vaudeville performances but also making some radio appearances and a few "short" films for various New York studios. She made her Broadway musical debut on December 25, 1929 in an show called Top Speed, and less than ten weeks later was starring in George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy, singing soon-to-be standards "(They're Writing Songs of Love) But Not For Me" and "Embraceable You" (which was written especially for her). Ginger was a hit and signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures' New York office in 1930, making movies in the morning and hitting the Broadway boards at night.
After Girl Crazy closed, Ginger managed to get herself released from her contract with Paramount and signed a three-picture deal with Pathé to make films in California. Thus in 1930, Ginger and her mother (who had divorced John Rogers) moved to Hollywood. Her movie career didn't take off like her Broadway career had however, and after three forgettable films, Pathé didn't renew her contract and Ginger returned to vaudeville for a time. She didn't give up on movie-making however, and spent most of 1932 free-lancing wherever she could find work.
The following year, Ginger made her first big Hollywood impression in Warner Bros.' 42ND STREET singing "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" with Una Merkel, and after opening the film GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 with a pig-Latin version of "We're In the Money," she was signed by RKO. Her natural red hair having been dyed blonde early in her movie career, Ginger tended to be type-cast as young starlets or molls. After playing a singing (although her voice was dubbed) radio star known as "The Purity Girl" in RKO's romantic comedy PROFESSIONAL SWEETHEART (1933), her talents were farmed out to other studios. When RKO found themselves with an unexpected hole in the cast of a Dolores Del Rio musical vehicle called FLYING DOWN TO RIO however, Ginger was called in to substitute as the second female lead. As it turned out, the cast also featured a dancer named Fred Astaire who had helped Ginger and the cast of Girl Crazy with some choreography on Broadway a few years previous, and the most famous dance team in the history of movies was born.
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire made ten musical films together, nine for RKO between 1933 and 1939, and the last, THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, for MGM ten years later. They were box-office champions during the Great Depression, and the series raised both Ginger and Fred to stardom. As a testimony to the power of their dancing, though Ginger and Fred never "clinched" on screen until their seventh film, CAREFREE (1938), much of America believed there was an off-screen romance between the two. Fred was married however, and in 1934 Ginger wed actor Lew Ayres upon whom she had harbored a school-girl crush since seeing him in ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930). Though this union lasted longer than her first, she and Ayres separated and were formally divorced in 1941. In 1936 after splitting with Ayres, Ginger built the house of her dreams on a hill in Coldwater Canyon, complete with a swimming pool and tennis court to support her athletic lifestyle, as well as a small art studio where she spent free time painting, sketching and sculpting. Most important to Ginger however, was the working soda fountain where she could indulge a life-long love of ice cream.
Although Astaire made only one Ginger-less film during that early period, RKO kept Ginger busy all the time. When she wasn't dancing with Fred she was making anywhere from one to six pictures a year away from him -- mostly romantic comedies. Most indications are that Fred and Ginger enjoyed working together but that both were wary of being known only as part of a pair. Besides being a dancer, Ginger was anxious to prove herself a capable dramatic actress.

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