Ginger Rogers

Object Details

Exhibition Label: Born Independence, Missouri; Ginger Rogers won the Texas State Charleston Championship at age fourteen and then embarked on the vaudeville circuit, chaperoned by her mother. By 1930 she had become a Broadway star in the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy. Hollywood then beckoned, and Rogers partnered in ten films with Fred Astaire, bringing a silvery glamour to Depression-era America in such movies as Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, and Shall We Dance. Other films included Stage Door, with Katharine Hepburn, and Kitty Foyle, for which she received a Best Actress Oscar in 1940. Her friend Isamu Noguchi worked on this sculpture while interned at a wartime camp for Japanese Americans.
Provenance: The Ginger Rogers Trust; purchased NPG 1996

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee

1942

Restrictions & Rights: Usage conditions apply
Copyright: © Estate of Isamu Noguchi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Medium: Pink Georgia marble
Dimensions: With Base: 50.8 x 18.7 x 26.7cm (20 x 7 3/8 x 10 1/2"); Without Base: 37.5 x 18.7 x 26.7cm (14 3/4 x 7 3/8 x 10 1/2"); Base: 13.3 x 18.7 x 20.3cm (5 1/4 x 7 3/8 x 8")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Ginger Rogers: Female; Ginger Rogers: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Theater\Stage actor; Ginger Rogers: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Film\Movie actor; Ginger Rogers: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Performer\Vaudeville performer; Ginger Rogers: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Dance\Dancer\Tap dancer; Ginger Rogers: Performing arts awards\Academy Award; Portrait

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