# Ginger Rogers filmography

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.
* In The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
* With Norman Foster in Rafter Romance (1933)
* Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler and Rogers in 42nd Street (1933)
* Flying Down to Rio (1933)
* With Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet (1936)
* With Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door (1937)
* Kitty Foyle (1940), an Academy Award winner for Best Actress
* With Fred Astaire in The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
* L-R: Rogers, Robert Cornthwaite, Cary Grant, and Marilyn Monroe in Monkey Business (1952)

## Films

| 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 | Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster | 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 | Jack Oakie | |
| Follow the Leader | 1930 | Norman Taurog | | |
| Honor Among Lovers | 1931 | Dorothy Arzner | Claudette Colbert | |
| The Tip-Off | 1931 | Albert Rogell | | |
| Suicide Fleet | 1931 | Albert Rogell | | |
| Carnival Boat | 1932 | Albert Rogell | | |
| The Tenderfoot | 1932 | Ray Enright | Joe E. Brown | |
| The Thirteenth Guest | 1932 | Albert Ray | Lyle Talbot | |
| Hat Check Girl | 1932 | Sidney Lanfield | | 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 | Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell | As Ann Lowell, aka "Anytime Annie". ("She only said no once, and then she didn't hear the question".) |
| 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 | William A. Seiter | Norman Foster | |
| A Shriek in the Night | 1933 | Albert Ray | Lyle Talbot | |
| Don't Bet on Love | 1933 | Murray Roth | Lew Ayres | Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres were married for seven years following this film. |
| Sitting Pretty | 1933 | Harry Joe Brown | Jack Oakie, Jack Haley | |
| Flying Down to Rio | 1933 | Thornton Freeland | Dolores del Río, Gene Raymond, Fred Astaire | The first Astaire–Rogers pairing. This is the only movie where Rogers is billed above Astaire. |
| Chance at Heaven | 1933 | William A. Seiter | Joel McCrea | |
| Rafter Romance | 1933 | William A. Seiter | Norman Foster | |
| Finishing School | 1934 | Wanda Tuchock and George Nicholas | Beulah Bondi | |
| Twenty Million Sweethearts | 1934 | Ray Enright | Dick Powell | |
| Change of Heart | 1934 | John G. Blystone | Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell | |
| Upperworld | 1934 | Roy Del Ruth | Mary Astor | |
| The Gay Divorcee | 1934 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire | |
| Romance in Manhattan | 1935 | Stephen Roberts | Francis Lederer | |
| Roberta | 1935 | William A. Seiter | Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Randolph Scott | 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 | William Powell | |
| Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire | |
| In Person | 1935 | William A. Seiter | George Brent | |
| Follow the Fleet | 1936 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire, Randolph Scott, Lucille Ball | |
| Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens | 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 | James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Hattie McDaniel | |
| 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 | Garson Kanin | David Niven, Charles Coburn | |
| Fifth Avenue Girl | 1939 | Gregory La Cava | Walter Connolly | |
| Primrose Path | 1940 | Gregory La Cava | Joel McCrea | |
| Lucky Partners | 1940 | Lewis Milestone | Ronald Colman, Jack Carson | |
| Kitty Foyle | 1940 | Sam Wood | Dennis Morgan, James Craig | 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 | George Murphy, Burgess Meredith | |
| Roxie Hart | 1942 | William A. Wellman | 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 | Billy Wilder | Ray Milland | 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 | Leo McCarey | Cary Grant | |
| Tender Comrade | 1943 | Edward Dmytryk | Robert Ryan | |
| Lady in the Dark | 1944 | Mitchell Leisen | Ray Milland, Warner Baxter | |
| I'll Be Seeing You | 1944 | William Dieterle | Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple | |
| Week-End at the Waldorf | 1945 | Robert Z. Leonard | Lana Turner | 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 | Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Fred Allen, Victor Moore | |
| Monkey Business | 1952 | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn | |
| Dreamboat | 1952 | Claude Binyon | Clifton Webb | |
| Forever Female | 1953 | Irving Rapper | William Holden | |
| 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 | Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene, Eve McVeagh | |
| The First Traveling Saleslady | 1956 | Arthur Lubin | Carol Channing | 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 | Carol Lynley | Rogers' last film. |

### Box office ranking

* 1935 - 14th
* 1936 - 19th
* 1938 - 18th
* 1939 - 21st
* 1940 - 23rd
* 1941 - 18th
* 1944 - 16th
* 1945 - 23rd

### Short subjects

* A Day of a Man of Affairs (1929)
* A Night in a Dormitory (1930)
* Campus Sweethearts (1930)
* Office Blues (1930)
* Hollywood on Parade (1932)
* Screen Snapshots (1932)
* Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933)
* Hollywood Newsreel (1934)
* Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 (1936)
* Show Business at War (1943)
* Battle Stations (Narrator, 1944)
* Screen Snapshots: The Great Showman (1950)
* Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Great Entertainers (1954)

### Television

* Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, at least 10 appearances between 1956 and 1965
* The DuPont Show with June Allyson, as Kay Neilson in "The Tender Shoot" (October 18, 1959)
* What's My Line? (at least six appearances between 1954 and 1966)
* The Hollywood Palace (two appearances, 1964)
* The Red Skelton Show (at least 3 episodes, 1963–64)
* The Jack Benny Program (1957)
* The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (1959)
* The Ed Sullivan Show (1963), singing "Something's Gotta Give"
* Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965 remake starring Lesley Ann Warren)
* Here's Lucy, episode "Ginger Rogers Comes to Tea" (1971)
* The Love Boat (1979) (episodes 3.10 and 3.11) as Stella (costar in episode: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.)
* Glitter (1984) (episode 1.3)
* Hotel (1987) (episode 5.1) (final screen role)

## Stage work

* Top Speed (1929)
* Girl Crazy (1930)
* Love and Let Love (1951)
* The Pink Jungle (1959)
* Annie Get Your Gun (1960)
* Bell, Book and Candle (1960)
* Calamity Jane (1961)
* Husband and Wife (1962)
* The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1963)
* A More Perfect Union (1963)
* Tovarich (1964)
* Hello, Dolly! (1965, Broadway, replacement for lead)
* Mame (London, 1969)
* Coco (1971)
* No, No, Nanette (1974)
* Forty Carats (1974)
* Anything Goes (1980)
* Miss Moffat (1983)
* Charley's Aunt (1984)

## Radio appearances

| Year | Program | Episode/source |
| 1942 | Lux Radio Theatre | Kitty Foyle |
| 1953 | Radio Theater | It Grows on Trees |