Hollywood glamour has been part and parcel of the film industry for decades — with the 1930s and 1940s well-known as among the most glamorous time period in the movie-making business. Ginger Rogers ...

A Hollywood Star was born in Independence. Now – there’s a push to make her legacy even more lasting.A museum will soon connect tinsel town to the hometown of Ginger Rogers. “The soffits need to be ...

Marge Padgitt had always loved Ginger Rogers. “I was a fan of Ginger Rogers, as was my mother,” said Padgitt, a longtime resident of Independence, Mo. “She got me interested in old-time movies and, of ...

The display cases in New York's Museum of the Moving Image are crowded with manifest nostalgia: paper dolls, lunch boxes, the Ben Casey M.D. board game. And in one corner, amid a trio of unassuming ...

Ginger Rogers, who is remembered best for her on-screen partnership with the king of dance, Fred Astaire, was a star in her own right during the golden age of Hollywood. The blonde beauty starred in ...

Ginger Rogers, the dancer who famously did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels, was a legend of the silver screen in the 1930s and 1940s thanks to roles in films like Swing ...

Is the best kept secret in Independence, Missouri, that Hollywood icon Ginger Rogers was born there in a two-bedroom bungalow? For what seemed like a fleeting moment, a museum in that house proudly ...

A museum in Independence, Missouri, is celebrating the life and legacy of one of the town's own successful Hollywood stars, Ginger Rogers.The Ginger House museum is based out of Rogers' early ...

Apart from the music and dancing, the canonical movie musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are almost unwatchably cloying and ridiculous. Then again, saying that is like saying that, apart from ...

In one merry-go-round of bad romance, we see a whirlwind tour of Rogers' five marriages and divorces, a goofy summing-up that does little to illuminate the psychological causes and effects of the ...

Marge Padgitt had always loved Ginger Rogers. “I was a fan of Ginger Rogers, as was my mother,” said Padgitt, a longtime resident of Independence. “She got me interested in old-time movies and, of ...