The Ginger Rogers filmography lists the film appearances of American actress Ginger Rogers, as well as her television, stage, and radio credits. Rogers's career spanned fifty-seven years, from 1930 to 1987.
Initially signing with Paramount Pictures in 1930, she quickly opted out of her contract and worked for several studios, most notably for Warner Brothers in musicals 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), during this time she was named one of WAMPAS Baby Stars. In 1932 Ginger co-starred with comedian Joe E. Brown in the movie, "You Said A Mouthful". In 1933, Rogers signed with RKO Radio Pictures, where she was paired with dancer Fred Astaire in commercially successful Flying Down to Rio (1933). The pair achieved greater success in subsequent musicals The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), and Shall We Dance (1937), totaling 8 films made between 1933 and 1939.
Without Astaire, Rogers starred in critically and commercially successful non-musicals throughout the remainder of the 1930s such as Stage Door (1937) with Katharine Hepburn, Vivacious Lady (1938) with James Stewart, and Bachelor Mother (1939) with David Niven, culminating with an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940).
Rogers flourished throughout the 1940s, becoming one of the most popular and highest paid actresses of the decade. She starred in comedies Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) and Roxie Hart (1942; this was an adaptation of the 1926 non-musical play Chicago, and later the inspiration for the hit 1975 musical and 2002 film adaptation), dramas Tender Comrade (1943) and I'll Be Seeing You (1944) and in director Billy Wilder's American film debut The Major and the Minor (1942).
She was reunited with Fred Astaire for MGM's The Barkleys of Broadway (1949).
In the 1950s, Rogers' film career had faltered, due to lesser demand for older actresses. She co-starred with popular Cary Grant in Monkey Business (1952) but her career continued to wane throughout the decade. She ended her film career with one of two fictionalized biographies on actress Jean Harlow in 1965's Harlow. Beginning the following year, she found success by returning to musical theatre, including a stint as one of several replacements for Carol Channing in the long-running Hello, Dolly! on Broadway.
| Title | Date | Director | Co-Starring | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Night In A Dormitory | 1930 | Harry Delmar | maybe 1929 | ||
| Office Blues | 1930 | musical short | |||
| Young Man of Manhattan | 1930 | Monta Bell | The line "Cigarette me, big boy" became a catchphrase during the 1930s after audiences heard Rogers repeat it throughout the movie. | ||
| Queen High | 1930 | Fred Newmeyer | |||
| The Sap from Syracuse | 1930 | A. Edward Sutherland | |||
| Follow the Leader | 1930 | Norman Taurog | |||
| Honor Among Lovers | 1931 | Claudette Colbert | |||
| The Tip-Off | 1931 | Albert Rogell | |||
| Suicide Fleet | 1931 | Albert Rogell | |||
| Carnival Boat | 1932 | Albert Rogell | |||
| The Tenderfoot | 1932 | Ray Enright | |||
| The Thirteenth Guest | 1932 | Albert Ray | |||
| Hat Check Girl | 1932 | Sidney Lanfield was the most frequent director on the Addams Family 1960s television show. | |||
| You Said a Mouthful | 1932 | Lloyd Bacon | Joe E. Brown | ||
| 42nd Street | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | As Ann Lowell, aka "Anytime Annie". ("She only said no once, and then she didn't hear the question".)[1] | ||
| Broadway Bad | 1933 | Sidney Lanfield | |||
| Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell | Featured Rogers' famous performance of "We're in the Money," directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. | |
| Professional Sweetheart | 1933 | Norman Foster | |||
| A Shriek in the Night | 1933 | Albert Ray | Lyle Talbot | ||
| Don't Bet on Love | 1933 | Murray Roth | Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres were married for seven years following this film. | ||
| Sitting Pretty | 1933 | Harry Joe Brown | |||
| Flying Down to Rio | 1933 | Thornton Freeland | The first Astaire–Rogers pairing. This is the only movie where Rogers is billed above Astaire. | ||
| Chance at Heaven | 1933 | William A. Seiter | |||
| Rafter Romance | 1933 | William A. Seiter | |||
| Finishing School | 1934 | Wanda Tuchock and George Nicholas | |||
| Twenty Million Sweethearts | 1934 | Ray Enright | Dick Powell | ||
| Change of Heart | 1934 | John G. Blystone | |||
| Upperworld | 1934 | Roy Del Ruth | |||
| The Gay Divorcee | 1934 | Fred Astaire | |||
| Romance in Manhattan | 1935 | Stephen Roberts | |||
| Roberta | 1935 | William A. Seiter | Lucille Ball has an uncredited appearance as a model. She had lines deleted since her character was supposed to be a French model and she could not perfect the accent. | ||
| Star of Midnight | 1935 | Stephen Roberts | |||
| Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire | ||
| In Person | 1935 | William A. Seiter | |||
| Follow the Fleet | 1936 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire, Randolph Scott, Lucille Ball | ||
| Swing Time | 1936 | Fred Astaire | |||
| Shall We Dance | 1937 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire | ||
| Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava | Katharine Hepburn, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Lucille Ball | ||
| Having Wonderful Time | 1938 | Alfred Santell | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lucille Ball, Red Skelton | This used much of the same cast as Stage Door. | |
| Vivacious Lady | 1938 | George Stevens | |||
| Carefree | 1938 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire, Jack Carson, Hattie McDaniel | ||
| The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | 1939 | H. C. Potter | Fred Astaire | ||
| Bachelor Mother | 1939 | David Niven, Charles Coburn | |||
| Fifth Avenue Girl | 1939 | Walter Connolly | |||
| Primrose Path | 1940 | Gregory La Cava | Joel McCrea | ||
| Lucky Partners | 1940 | Lewis Milestone | Ronald Colman, Jack Carson | ||
| Kitty Foyle | 1940 | Sam Wood | Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress the first year that the academy did not announce winners before the ceremony. She beat Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Martha Scott, and former co-star Katharine Hepburn. | ||
| Tom, Dick and Harry | 1941 | Garson Kanin | |||
| Roxie Hart | 1942 | Adolphe Menjou | An adaptation of the non-musical play Chicago, later adapted into the successful stage musical and film. | ||
| Tales of Manhattan | 1942 | Julien Duvivier | Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Rita Hayworth, Gail Patrick | ||
| The Major and the Minor | 1942 | Rogers campaigned hard for Billy Wilder and as a result this became his debut film. This remains one of Rogers' favorite movies. Near the end, her real mother, Lela Rogers, played her character's mother. | |||
| Once Upon a Honeymoon | 1942 | ||||
| Tender Comrade | 1943 | Robert Ryan | |||
| Lady in the Dark | 1944 | Mitchell Leisen | |||
| I'll Be Seeing You | 1944 | William Dieterle | Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple | ||
| Week-End at the Waldorf | 1945 | Robert Z. Leonard | Remake of the 1932 film Grand Hotel, Rogers portrayed the ballerina who was first played on screen by Greta Garbo. | ||
| Heartbeat | 1946 | Sam Wood | Adolphe Menjou | ||
| Magnificent Doll | 1946 | Frank Borzage | David Niven, Burgess Meredith | ||
| It Had to Be You | 1947 | Don Hartman and Rudolph Mate | Cornel Wilde | ||
| The Barkleys of Broadway | 1949 | Charles Walters | Fred Astaire | Judy Garland was originally cast, having recently starred with Astaire in Easter Parade (1948); due to personal problems, she was replaced by Rogers. This is the only Astaire–Rogers film not released by RKO and the only one filmed in color (although the "I Used to Be Color Blind" number in Carefree was originally filmed in Technicolor). | |
| Perfect Strangers | 1950 | Bretaigne Windust | Dennis Morgan | ||
| Storm Warning | 1951 | Stuart Heisler | Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran | ||
| The Groom Wore Spurs | 1951 | Richard Whorf | Jack Carson | ||
| We're Not Married! | 1952 | Edmund Goulding | |||
| Monkey Business | 1952 | Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn | |||
| Dreamboat | 1952 | Claude Binyon | Clifton Webb | ||
| Forever Female | 1953 | Irving Rapper | |||
| Black Widow | 1954 | Nunnally Johnson | Gene Tierney, Van Heflin, Peggy Ann Garner | ||
| Twist of Fate (U.S. ' Beautiful Stranger ') | 1954 | David Miller | Herbert Lom | Released in Great Britain as Beautiful Stranger; Rogers' husband at the time, Jacques Bergerac, appeared in the film. | |
| Tight Spot | 1955 | Phil Karlson | |||
| The First Traveling Saleslady | 1956 | Arthur Lubin | Clint Eastwood appeared in an early film role. | ||
| Teenage Rebel | 1956 | Edmund Goulding | Michael Rennie | ||
| Oh, Men! Oh, Women! | 1957 | Nunnally Johnson | David Niven | ||
| Quick, Let's Get Married | 1964 | William Dieterle | Ray Milland | Also known as "The Confession." | |
| Harlow | 1965 | Alex Segal | Rogers' last film. |
See also: Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll.
File:Perry Como Ginger Rogers 1957.JPG| An appearance with Perry Como on TV's Kraft Music Hall (1957)
| Year | Program | Episode/source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Lux Radio Theatre | Kitty Foyle[8] | |
| 1953 | Radio Theater | It Grows on Trees[9] |
