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Birthdate: July 16, 1911
Death date: April 25, 1995
Ginger Rogers
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
4.0000
44
1940s
3.0301
17
1950s
2.2744
13
1960s
No Reviews
2
1970s
No Reviews
0
1980s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.0277
3.0277
Ginger Rogers Movie Rankings
1
3.5523Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. ...more about Top Hat
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2
3.1822Broadway director Julian Marsh insists on one last huge production before his death. We follow the process from casting, rehearsals and last-minute understudies. ...more about 42nd Street
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3
3.0697Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together. ...more about Bachelor Mother
- Not Available on DVD
4
3.0398
Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her. He and Pop go to New York where they run into Penny, a dancing instructor. ...more about Swing Time
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
5
2.9679
Fredric March, a businessman, is in love with his secretary (Claudette Colbert) but she deserts him for another man; when she realizes her mistake, she goes back to March. Ginger Rogers is Colbert's girlfriend who is love with Charles Ruggles. ...more about Honor Among Lovers
- Not Available on DVD
6
2.9372
Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. ...more about Stage Door
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
7
2.8609
New York working girl Ginger Rogers is desparate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Ray Milland, an Army major teaching at a military school. ...more about Major and the Minor
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.8606
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr. Flagg. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with Dr. Flagg. ...more about Carefree
DVD from $11.99
(14 sellers)
9
2.8469
An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the 4 succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth. ...more about Tales of Manhattan
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.8405
When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister Connie. ...more about Follow the Fleet
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
11
2.8218
Ginger Rogers, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her. ...more about Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $4.70
(12 sellers)
12
2.7853
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood, in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. ...more about Professional Sweetheart
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.7664
Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. ...more about Monkey Business
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $6.88
(13 sellers)
14
2.7487
Barneny Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. ...more about Gold Diggers of 1933
DVD from $41.37
(9 sellers)
15
2.7031
Ginger Rogers, a young entertainer on a carnival boat, is in love with William Boyd but Hobart Bosworth (Boyd's father) is against the romance. ...more about Carnival Boat
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.6939
Friend Tim Winthrop asks criminal lawyer and amateur detective Clay Dalzell to find his girl, Alice, who disappeared a year earlier without a trace. ...more about Star of Midnight
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.6836
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade. ...more about Barkleys of Broadway
DVD from $11.89
(14 sellers)
18
2.6757
Ginger Rogers, a movie star who has had a nervous breakdown and is suffering from agoraphobia, runs away and meets George Brent and they both retreat to the mountains. ...more about In Person
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.6652
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. Annabel Norris, already Mrs. Mississippi and ready to enter the Mrs. ...more about We're Not Married!
DVD from $6.88
(9 sellers)
20
2.6574
Ginger Rogers, a telephone operator, is pursued by George Murphy (a down-to earth fellow), Alan Marshal (a rich man) and Burgess Meredith (a noncomformist). She dreams what life would be life married to each of them. ...more about Tom Dick and Harry
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.6391
Unscrupulous agent Pat O'Brien makes singing waiter Dick Powell a big radio star while Ginger Rogers, who has lost her own radio show, helps Powell. ...more about Twenty Million Sweethearts
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.6391
Both Joe E. Brown and Guinn Williams are named Joe Holt; Brown is a shipping clerk and Williams is a champion Canadian swimmer. ...more about You Said a Mouthful
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.5478
Blackstone 'Blacky' Gorman, rising service station owner, is blessed with the devotion of supremely sweet and noble Marje Harris, but he meets coquettish and silly debutante Glory Franklyn and, between Glory's charm and his social ambition, is snared ...more about Chance at Heaven
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.4930
A rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him -- she's too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. ...more about Upperworld
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.4885
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. ...more about Primrose Path
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.4474
Joe E. Brown is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Ginger Rogers, a secretary, learns that her boss, Lew Cody, is attempting to swindle Brown and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in. ...more about Tenderfoot
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.4382
Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. ...more about Flying Down to Rio
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
28
2.3621
In 1911, Vernon Castle, minor comic in a stage revue, pursues the leading lady to a New Jersey beach...where, instead, he meets stage-struck Irene Foote. ...more about Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
29
2.3287
Ginger Rogers is a convict released from state penitentiary for a Christmas leave. On the train, she meets Sergeant Joseph Cotton who has been released from a mental hospital and she invites him home for dinner. ...more about I'll Be Seeing You
DVD from $6.99
(10 sellers)
30
2.3256
To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don't seem to let dames swing, and even with top slippery lawyer Billy Flynn, it's all something of a gamble. ...more about Roxie Hart
DVD from $3.99
(11 sellers)
31
2.3150
Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent. ...more about Gay Divorcee
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
32
2.3013
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance ...more about Week-End at the Waldorf
- Not Available on DVD
34
2.2474
Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. ...more about Shall We Dance
DVD from $12.71
(16 sellers)
35
2.2130
On a quick trip to the city, young university professor Peter Morgan falls in love with nightclub performer Francey Brent and marries her after a whirlwind romance. ...more about Vivacious Lady
- Not Available on DVD
36
2.2008
While on a job, cocky young radio repairman Tommy Jordan meets Baby Face, enticing (if dizzy) girlfriend of jealous boxer Kayo McClure. ...more about Tip-Off
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.0364
Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building. ...more about Shriek in the Night
DVD from $5.16
(5 sellers)
38
1.8721
13 years before the movie opens, there was a dinner party, at which the 13th guest failed to show up. The master of the manner has died, and left the bulk of his estate to this 13th guest, but nobody knows who that is. ...more about Thirteenth Guest
DVD from $5.16
(5 sellers)
39
1.8264
Ginger Rogers, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation. ...more about Tender Comrade
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.7885
Ginger Rogers, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister (Doris Day) who has married a Ku Klux Klansman (Steve Cochran). ...more about Storm Warning
DVD from $31.85
(12 sellers)
41
1.7807
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. ...more about Roberta
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
42
1.7168
Ginger Rogers plays a secretary who is in love with her boss but he ignores her and she ignores another suitor. Eventually, the boss reveals that he loves her. ...more about Office Blues
DVD from $19.17
(6 sellers)
43
1.4506
Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background, is taken from prison to a hotel, where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. ...more about Tight Spot
- Not Available on DVD
44
Troubled with union problems in his business and lonely on his birthday because his wife, Martha, is out with a playboy, millionaire Timothy Borden meets unemployed and hungry Mary Grey in a park and convinces her to help him celebrate at a nightclub. ...more about 5th Ave Girl
- Not Available on DVD
45
Ginger Rogers is in love with an international businessman, Stanley Baker, who is actually the head of a syndicate that mints illegal coins for the Continental market. ...more about Beautiful Stranger
- Not Available on DVD
46
A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. ...more about Black Widow
- Not Available on DVD
48
Janet Gaynor and James Dunn and their close friends Charles Farrell and Ginger Rogers graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work. ...more about Change of Heart
- Not Available on DVD
50
Lew Ayres, a plumber, wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. Ginger Rogers, his manicurist girlfriend , stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber. ...more about Don't Bet on Love
- Not Available on DVD
51
Clifton Webb, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter (Anne Francis) to stop it. ...more about Dreamboat
- Not Available on DVD
52
Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls' school where everything appears prim and proper, but the motto is essentially "Don't Get Caught. ...more about Finishing School
- Not Available on DVD
53
At the turn of the century Rose and ex-showbiz friend Molly get involved in selling steel. When they come unstuck with corsets they embark on the even more hazardous project of selling barbed wire to highly suspicious Texas cowboys. ...more about First Traveling Saleslady
- Not Available on DVD
58
Sally Eilers is a hat-check girl in a nighclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Ben Lyon. Eilers is supported by her girlfriend Ginger Rogers. ...more about Hat Check Girl
- Not Available on DVD
60
A young female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is caught red-handed on her first attempt at stealing by an upper class man. ...more about Heartbeat
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64
Dolly Payne is adored by two leaders of the fledgling American government, James Madison and Aaron Burr. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. ...more about Magnificent Doll
- Not Available on DVD
67
At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having Nazi ties. ...more about Once Upon a Honeymoon
- Not Available on DVD
69
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. ...more about Queen High
- Not Available on DVD
70
Ginger Rogers, a working girl, shares a Greenwich Village apartment with Norman Foster, an artist-night watchman. They share the apartment on a shift basis never seeing each other. Ginger develops a hearty dislike for Foster until she meets him. ...more about Rafter Romance
- Not Available on DVD
71
Czechoslovakian immigrant Karel Novak fulfills his dream of coming to America only to learn at Ellis Island the entrance fee has been raised from $50 to $200. ...more about Romance in Manhattan
- Not Available on DVD
72
Ginger Rogers plays an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks try to get rid of Ginger. ...more about Sap from Syracuse
- Not Available on DVD
74
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them. ...more about Sitting Pretty
- Not Available on DVD
76
A sometimes sappy, yet effective melodrama about a woman who tries to make amends with her teenage daughter that she gave up at the end of an unhappy marriage. ...more about Teenage Rebel
- Not Available on DVD
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