Author: Ginger Rogers Subtitle: My Story Publisher: It Books Publishing Year: 2008-8-1
In the 1930s, the ill-fated Hollywood Thunder and Dianhua Company was already showing signs of fatigue in the competition.
In 1933, Leidianhua Company was on the verge of bankruptcy and finally relied on "King Kong" (1933) jointly directed by Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973) and Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893-1979) to revive.
By 1935, Leidianhua Company was once again on the verge of bankruptcy. This time, the tide was turned around with an entertainment-filled musical film "Top Hat" (1935).
Chij Rogers and Fred Astaire in the movie "Bot Hat" (1935) The plot of the film is very cliché, telling the story of a dancer and a beauty admiring each other, but the latter misunderstood that the former already has a family. The two went around in a series of misunderstandings, and finally got married and were both happy.
Although this film has no highlights in art, it does not prevent it from using a lot of popular elements to create itself in a brilliant way.
In order to enrich the film's levels, the film was interspersed with a large number of singing and dancing performances, and the interlude "Face to Face Cheek to Cheek" quickly became popular.
Qinji Rogers and Fred Astaire's image in the movie "Bowl Hat" (1935)
not only became a popular song sung on the streets and alleys at that time, but also earned a place for themselves in American pop history.
After the release of "Top Hat", it set off a movie viewing craze, investing $620,000 in films, and the final income reached an astonishing 3 million.
This result is second only to "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), starring "Movie Emperor" Clark Gable (1901-1960), and ranked second in the box office record in 1935.
Qinji Rogers and Fred Astaire in the movie "Bothat" (1935),
In addition, "Bothat" is also the most popular film of Leidianhua Company in the 1930s.
The two starring actors of "The Top Hat" were Fred Astaire (1899-1987) and Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) who were known as the "Golden Boy and Jade Girl" in Hollywood at that time.
"Top Hat" is the fourth song and dance film jointly by Fred Astaire and Qinji Rogers. He has collaborated on a total of ten song and dance films.
Qi Gee Rogers and Fred Astaire in the movie "Top Hat" (1935)
When it comes to Qin Gee Rogers, most people will immediately think of the song and dance films that were at their peak in the golden age of Hollywood.
Qinji Rogers is the Hollywood dance that is eternal in people's hearts, so that such an image that is too deeply rooted in people's hearts makes people forget that Qinji Rogers is not only able to dance, she is also an excellent actor.
2-year-old Qinji Rogers
[Children's disaster and its origin]
Qinji Rogers' mother Lela E. Rogers (1890-1977) met a young man named William McMath at the age of 17 and fell in love with each other. The two married in the fall of 1909 at Salt Lake City, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
But their union is not happy. On the day of the wedding, Lyra E. Rogers discovered that William McMas had bullied her. The two of them were not the same age. William McMas was 12 years older than Lyra E. Rogers. Although Laila E. Rogers still loves William McMass, his soul has been covered with a shadow since then.
Chenji Rogers and his mother Laila E. Rogers (right)
Years later, Laila E. Rogers was happy to give birth, but unfortunately the baby failed to survive due to difficult labor. Soon, Laila E. Rogers became pregnant again. William McMass is a idle person who left his wife and ran away from home.
Lyra E. Rogers moved to Independence City, Missouri in July 1911. To make a living, she went to Sand Company for a secretary position at 9 months and promised to start work within the first week of August after giving birth.Stills from the movie "Chance at Heaven" (1933), Qinji Rogers, a generation of dancers in the film industry, arrived safely at 2 a.m. on July 16, 1911. She is a baby girl with blue eyes, fair skin and weighing 7 pounds.
Later, the mother told Qinji Rogers that she had been praying for a daughter and it got what she wanted; and in the later stages of pregnancy, she often felt her daughter's toes "dance" naughty.
Mother named her lovely daughter Virginia. Half a month later, Leila E. Rogers came to Sand Company as promised to report to start his secretary work on August 1.
movie "Finishing School for Women's Finishing School" (1934), Qinji Rogers
Because no one is taking care of the children at home, Leila E. Rogers had to take her daughter to work every day, put her on the lawn outside the office, surrounded by wooden railings, and put a blanket inside, so that the children can play by themselves. My mother looked at Little Virginia from time to time through the glass window.
One day, something amazing happened, and Little Virginia playing in the fence suddenly disappeared. Although the company boss and the police searched everywhere, there was no clue.
Qinji Rogers's image in the movie "Having Wonderful Time" (1938)
is said to be destiny or opportunity, but the evolution of things is so dramatic. On the one hand, Laila E. Rogers received spiritual support and encouragement from scientific Christian teachings, making her firm believe that the kind God will help her overcome evil and find her daughter; on the other hand, she also actively seeks out ways to find it.
One day, when she was tracking from Missouri to Dallas in Texas, she met a taxi driver who had never known each other at the train station and told her that yesterday a man was holding a beautiful and nervous baby to a nearby home.
Lella E. Rogers analyzed that the baby was Virginia, so he asked the driver to help her take back the child. The driver agreed and took Lail E. Rogers to the door of the house. The mother rushed into the house and, before the people present could figure out what had happened, took out Virginia and ran away in the original car.
It turns out that the planner of this robbery was Virginia's biological father William McMass. He originally wanted to rob the child, change his name and send it to a religious school, leaving Laila E. Rogers nowhere to find it.
movie "Upperworld" (1934) Stills, Qinji Rogers
Two years later, William McMas attempted to rob Virginia again, but was discovered by Leila E. Rogers and turned him to court, and was severely punished. Lyra E. Rogers finally completed the divorce procedures with William McMass and never saw him again.
1915 Leila E. Rogers went to Hollywood, and Virginia and her younger cousin Helen, who were under one year old, both lived at her grandfather’s home in Kansas City, Missouri. Helen is beautiful and cute. Virginia treats her as a walking doll and likes to play with her little cousin.
Interestingly, Helen doesn't pronounce "V", but calls Virginia Ba-din-da, later referred to as Din-da, and then becomes Ginga, and finally makes Qinji's pronunciation. So, Qinji became the official name of Virginia.
1918 Leila E. Rogers participated in US Marine Corps and was sent to Washington, DC to serve as a newspaper current affairs commentator. Once, she met John Rogers, who had just recovered from the lung lobe and was discharged from the hospital. The two fell in love and fell in love.
Qinji Rogers (right) took a photo with his mother and stepfather
Leila E. Rogers did not affect his love for John Rogers because he had only half of his lungs.
The two finally made a good marriage in May 1920 in Free City, Missouri, and then returned to Kansas City to meet their families.
John Rogers loves 9-year-old Chingi Rogers very much and regards him as his biological daughter; Chingi Rogers also likes John Rogers very much and regards him as his biological father.
"Life" Weekly cover on December 9, 1940, stills of Qinji Rogers in the movie "Long Live the Woman" (1940)
After a rough and hard childhood, this film dancer who later became popular all over the world finally completed his transformation from first name to last name.
[Repented of marriage in less than half a month of engagement]
You should know that Qinji Rogers' mother was not much more fierce than her daughter. She was the first female member of the US Marine Corps during the battle in . Later, she pursued her personal interests and worked as a screenwriter and drama critic in Hollywood, and received her salary from the high-end Fox Company.
Qinji Rogers's image in the movie "Star Picking Dreams is Difficult to Recover Stage Door" (1937)
Leila E. Rogers has both vision and strategy. Although her daughter had participated in commercial advertisements when she was 5 years old and used the time she had been waiting for her to get off work in the theater where she worked to learn dance and singing, her mother still refused to let her enter the industry too early and was not "released" until she was 14 years old.
Sufficient preliminary preparations have made Qinji Rogers' acting career smooth and lasting after his official debut. His pay ranks among the top ten in Hollywood all year round. At the age of 76, he is still active on the Broadway stage.
黄斯 Rogers and Catherine Hepburn in the movie "The Dream of Picking Stars is Difficult to Recover Stage Door" (1937)
In addition to being a screenwriter and commenting on movies, she also opened an acting training school , which is simply a fight and a cure when she gets off the horse. Lucille Ball (1911-1989) and Betty Grable (1916-1973) both came from this school.
Under the escort of his mother, 17-year-old Qinji Rogers won a role in the Broadway stage play "Speed" in 1928, so he was able to sign an agreement with Paramount.
Qinji Rogers' image in the movie "Vivuous Miss Vivacious Lady" (1938)
Qinji Rogers first became famous because of her marriage. At the age of 18, she was engaged to the famous editor of the New Yorker magazine Harold Rogers . The age gap between the two at the age of 18 became a hot topic in the film industry at that time.
Shortly after getting engaged, Qinji Rogers immediately repented of marriage. In less than half a month, she and actor Jack Pepper (1902-1979) got married on March 29, 1929. This quick-winning marriage made many people not know what she had experienced.
James Stewart and Qinji Rogers in the movie "Vivuous Miss" (1938)
After entering Hollywood, Qinji Rogers immediately became a new star in the musical and dance film with his beautiful face and singing and dancing skills.
It is worth mentioning that Chingi Rogers' first marriage collapsed two years later, and she officially divorced Jack Pepper on July 11, 1931.
However, in the early 1930s, she basically played small roles in some films, most of the time acting as a vase. Until 1933, she and Fred Astaire co-starred in Flying Down to Rio (1933), a film that marked the real beginning of Chingi Rogers' career in Hollywood.
Qinji Rogers' image in the movie "Dance on the Sea" (1936)
You should know that "Flying to Rio" is the 20th movie starring Qinji Rogers, and for Fred Astaire, this is just his second movie.
"Life" Weekly cover on August 22, 1938, Qinji Rogers and Fred Astaire
[Six Years of Golden Partner]
From 1933 to 1939, all nine song and dance films she collaborated with Fred Astaire were selling well. As golden partners, the two entered the peak of their careers together.
1933, Hollywood songs and dance films gradually entered the maturity stage, and their representative works were mainly "42nd Street" (1933) and "Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933).
and both movies Qinji Rogers participated.
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, especially "The Gold Strike Girl in 1933", tells a backstage story that is unyielding and somewhat cynical. A group of "gold-seeking" choir girls, Qinji Rogers, Joan Blondell (1906-1979), and others must find a job again.
Qinji Rogers's image in the movie "The Gold Strike Girl in 1933" (1933)
has a whimsical tone, and there is also a series of socio-economic issues hidden in it, from unemployment to prostitution.
These issues, as hidden themes, contrast with the "escapist" rhetoric that musical and dance films should have, provides a full social commentary context.
Chij Rogers and Fred Astaire in the movie "Flying to Rio" (1933)
Early films starring Qin Ge Rogers always have a vague positioning of herself. She is neither a sexy girl nor a material girl, but she still has some optimism and cunning in her bones.
So the company began to try to get her and Fred Astaire to work together in "Flying to Rio".
Chij Rogers and Fred Astaire's image in the movie "Roberta" (1935)
It's not that no one has collaborated with Fred Astaire before, but no one can endure harder than Chij Rogers. She has to do the same complex movements with Dance King , and she is wearing high heels with seven-point heels!
Fred Astaire recalls this way: "After a lot of training every day, Qinji Rogers was the only one who did not cry."
Qi Rogers and Fred Astaire's image in the movie "Roberta" (1935)
You should know that starting from "The Wizard of Oz?" (1939) and "Babes in Arms?" (1939), MGM dominated the genre of music and dance films in the 1940s.
However, in the mid-to-late 1930s, it was the era of Lei Dianhua, mainly because it produced a series of films co-stars by Fred Astaire and Qinji Rogers, especially The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat, Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936) and Shall We Dance (1937).
Chij Rogers' images in the movie "Dance on the Sea" (1936)
Chij Rogers and Fred Astaire's images in the movie "Dance on the Sea" (1936)
Although these works do not have such outstanding stage design and changing photography like the films that were filmed by Busby Berkeley for Warner Bros., the genius and personal charm of Fred Astaire and Chinge Rogers fully make up for this, making the film have a unique quality and has always been imitated.
Qinji Rogers and Fred Astaire's image in the movie "The Age of Swinging Music" (1936)
Fred Astaire's always full of vitality and unrestrained singing and dancing protagonists, and perfectly balanced with his partner Qinji Rogers' smart and talented home image. This song and dance ceremony for the couple's emotional development has also become the shooting tradition of Hollywood's late 1930s song and dance films.
Chij Rogers and Fred Astaire in the movie "The Age of Swinging Music" (1936)
Although the character settings and emotional scenes of Fred Astaire and Qin Gee Rogers can be imitated, they are irreplaceable stars.
The star temperament is the most important, because musical and dance films are the type that has the closest relationship with the star system. In fact, for any kind of film program, actors are a concrete symbol, representing specific values, attitudes and behaviors.
Cynj Rogers and Fred Astaire in the movie "As I Way" (1937)
But Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), James Cagney James Cagney (1899-1986) and Edward Robinson Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973) gangsters, Cary Grant (1904-1986) and Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) plays a neurocomedy couple, and even the Western Heroes played by John Wayne (1907-1979) do not carry such an important inner meaning like a musical actor, especially the four singers and dance stars like Fred Astaire, Chingi Rogers, Gene Kelly (1912-1996) and Judy Garland (1922-1969), who can all sing and dance.
Actors' personality charm is becoming more and more important. The main reason is of course that the plot and performance range involved in the film is becoming wider and wider, and the requirements for singers and dancers are also getting higher and higher.
Qinji Rogers has starred in four films that were selected as the National Film Registration by the U.S. Library of Congress , and these four films are her early song and dance films, and they are of great significance "cultural, historical or aesthetic": "Forty-Second Street", "Golden Girl of 1933", "Top Hat" and "The Age of Swinging Music".
Chij Rogers and Fred Astaire's image in the movie "Dance on the Sea" (1936)
Chij Rogers and Fred Astaire's image in the movie "Dance on the Sea" (1936)
[The highest paid female movie star]
Chij Rogers not only knows how to dance, but after leaving Fred Astaire, her acting skills exploded. In 1940, she won the 13th Academy Awards Best Actress Award in for her feature film "Long Live the Women" (1940).
"Long Live Women" tells the question of women's choice. The choice faced by Katie, the protagonist played by Qinji Rogers in the film, is: whether you choose the person you love or the person you love.
Qinji Rogers's image in the movie "Long Live the Woman" (1940)
Of course, Katie finally made the right decision... Put aside the past and marry a man who loves himself deeply.
From the current perspective, "Long Live the Woman" is not an excellent work, and the plot is somewhat similar to the soap opera staged on TV.
Qinji Rogers's image in the movie "Long Live the Woman" (1940)
It is undeniable that Qinji Rogers' performance in the film, which changed the course of the show, really gives people a refreshing feeling. What she has always talked about in her life is the "The Philadelphia Story?" (1940), "The Letter?" (1940), "The Letter?" (1940), "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn, who was nominated at the same time as her," (1940), "The Letter?" (1940), "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn, who was nominated at the same time as her," (1940), "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Betty Davis (1908-1989), "The Letter?" (1940), and "Joan, Joan," (1940), "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Betty Davistml4 (1908-1989), "The Letter?" (1940), "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn," (1940), and "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn," (1940), and "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn," (1940), and "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn," (1940), and "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn," (1940), and "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn," (1940), and "The Legend of the Sweetheart" by Katherine Hepburn," (1940), and "The Legend of the Sweetheart" Fontaine (1917-2013)'s "Rebecca?" (1940) and Martha Scott (1912-2003)'s "Our Town on Moon Night" (1940).
Qi Ji Rogers won the Best Actress Award at the 13th Academy Awards
1942Qi Ji Rogers finally won the throne of the highest paid female movie star in Hollywood.
But many people hope that she can work with Fred Astaire again. After all, no one surpasses his cooperation on the screen. Although Fred Astaire has changed several dance partners on the screen, they are not as comfortable as him and Qinji Rogers.
Promotional photo of the movie "The Queen of the Golden Beard" (1949), Qinji Rogers and Fred Astaire
But after all, time is unforgiving. In 1949, in "The Queen of the Golden Beard" (1949), this is the tenth work of his collaboration and the last one. At the age of 38, she has gone from a "dexterous little girl" to a "strong old woman".
1967 Qinji Rogers and Fred Astaire reunited on TV
Qinji Rogers later said in an interview: She and Fred Astaire cooperated on the screen very well, and the partnership was very friendly, but she and Fred Astaire have never been close friends on the screen. "We are different people and have different interests. We are just a couple in the movie."
Author: Sheridan Morley Subtitle: The Life of Ginger Rogers Publishing House: St Martins Pr Publish Year: 1995-12
In 1976, British TV interviewer Michael Parkinson asked Fred Astaire who his favorite dance partner was, and Fred Astaire replied, "I'm sorry, I have to say it's Jengi Rogers. You know I have a lot of screen partners, but if the collaboration is good, you can't know on the screen... I just want to pay tribute to Jengi Rogers because we've made so many movies together, believe me, it's definitely worth having that girl... Her performance is really great!"
Movie "The Lively Miss Vivacious Lady" (1938), James Stewart and Qinji Rogers, who had had a relationship
[Married 5 times without children]
For Qinji Rogers, although she has always believed in love and bravely searched for true love, she has never found a man in her life who can cooperate with her like Fred Astaire.
shows that the issue of love is really much more complicated than dance. She has been married 5 times in her life and has no children. She was only 18 when she got married for the first time.
Qinji Rogers took a photo with her second husband Lew Ayres. As a successful woman in her career, she yearned for love and family life all her life, but she did not find it. Her husbands are younger than the other.
Her fourth husband is even 16 years younger than her. As a bystander, people will naturally suspect that these were the motivations of young male actors who were professional or non-professional to pursue Qinji Rogers.
Chiji Rogers and her second husband Lou Ayers
Chiji Rogers is undoubtedly a woman who believes in beautiful love and is willing to sacrifice herself. She once said a very famous saying about love: When two people fall in love, they are not staring at each other, they are looking in the same direction.
Cinji Rogers and fourth husband Jacques Bergerac got married on February 7, 1953
Her five marriages lasted for less than 10 years. Her longest marriage was her last marriage to William Marshall (1917-1994), which lasted for eight years. She has never had a child.
This is William Marshall, the fifth husband of Qinji Rogers. He got married on March 16, 1961. After the 1950s, as Qinji Rogers' influence on the screen became increasingly weak, she gradually transferred her work to the stage on Broadway. As a conservative Republican people, her actions are far less cute than on the screen.
68-year-old Qinji Rogers's image in an interview on TV
Facts have proved that her intimate relationship with her mother Laila E. Rogers is eternal. After his death, Chingi Rogers was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, which is also the site of Fred Astaire's tomb. Chingi Rogers was buried with her mother, who shared a simple tombstone with two roses engraved on it.
- Sophia Roland won the Best Actress Award again. Now at the age of 88, there are two great regrets that failed to do it.
- The former fickle boyfriend committed suicide for her, and his reputation was slandered, resulting in a sluggish career, but a happy life
- Winning for ten consecutive years She has won the reputation of "Box Office Queen", she changed the Oscar voting program
- When she was raped by her father in childhood, she once loved a director who was 28 years older than her, and 61-year-old "Tess" still longed for love
- She boldly transformed in Hollywood, and she was very successful from an actor to a director. She married her husband for 12 years
