Ginger Rogers
 |
 GINGER ROGERS 1940s Portrait VINTAGE PHOTO 165L $9.99 Time Remaining: 29d 15h 38m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 0112223SQ HOLLYWOOD RUSSELL COLBERT OBERON GINGER ROGERS 07 1940 JULY 7 1940 $19.99 Time Remaining: 6h 42m Buy It Now for only: $37.50 |
 GINGER ROGERS Weekend at the Waldorf Orig 1945 Photo Leon Ames $7.95 Time Remaining: 13h 42m Buy It Now for only: $9.95 |
 GINGER ROGERS PHOTOGRAPH $9.99 Time Remaining: 29d 21h 21m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers 1935 RKO Newsette Pamphlet about Top Hat $9.99 Time Remaining: 3d 20h 15m |
 2210213S GINGER ROGERS LUCILLE BALL DIETRICH MIRANDA ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER MOVIES $7.99 Time Remaining: 6h 26m Buy It Now for only: $14.50 |
 220525CR HOLLYWOOD GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE HIGHLAND JUNE 5 1949 NEWSPAPER $21.50 Time Remaining: 29d 12h 4m Buy It Now for only: $21.50 |
 270731CQ JEAN HARLOW GINGER ROGERS KAY FRANCIS 1936 NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE $14.99 Time Remaining: 13h 45m Buy It Now for only: $25.00 |
 Ginger Rogers accepts her Oscar for Kitty Foyle ORIGINAL 1941 photo $9.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 4d 17h 29m |
 GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE PHOTOGRAPH $9.99 Time Remaining: 29d 21h 21m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 Ginger Rogers Volpe Academy Award Print Portrait 1962 $34.99 Time Remaining: 11h 32m |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers 45 MAGNIFICENT DOLL Publicity Portrait $34.95 Time Remaining: 20h 41m |
 GINGER ROGERS 8X11 Photo BW Stunning Outside Glamour Portrait $12.99 Time Remaining: 11d 19h 48m Buy It Now for only: $12.99 |
 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Carefree 1938 8x10 photo $8.00 Time Remaining: 3d 10h 13m |
 CHEESECAKE GINGER ROGERS 1943 Portrait VINTAGE PHOTO W913 $9.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 23h 31m |
 1940 MOVIE Ronald Colman GINGER ROGERS LUCKY PARTNERS GERMAN PROGRAM $24.00 Time Remaining: 29d 12h 30m Buy It Now for only: $24.00 |
 Ginger Rogers with Adolphe Menjou original busty photo 1945 Heartbeat $9.99 Time Remaining: 21h 25m |
 GINGER ROGERS REAL PHOTOGRAPH PIN UP POSTCARD ORIGINAL MOVIE QUEEN GLAMOUR LEGS $3.99 Time Remaining: 12h 16m |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers 46 GORGEOUS BEAUTY LB Portrait $44.95 Time Remaining: 24d 14h 9m Buy It Now for only: $44.95 |
 1947 BOND BREAD 3 MOVIE STARS GEORGE RAFT RITA HAYWORTH GINGER ROGERS $9.99 Time Remaining: 16h 18m |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers 31 EARLY ART DECO FASHION LB Portrait $194.95 Time Remaining: 22h 56m |
 GINGER ROGERS PHOTOGRAPH $9.99 Time Remaining: 16d 21h 48m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 2508231SQ HOLLYWOOD GINGER ROGERS BETTE DAVIS ETC 1937 ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER $19.99 Time Remaining: 6h 42m Buy It Now for only: $37.50 |
 Film Star GINGER ROGERS PHOTOS 500+ PICTURES Rare VINTAGE Album COLLECTION $15.98 Time Remaining: 17h 58m Buy It Now for only: $17.99 |
 GINGER ROGERS 8X11 Photo BW 1930s MIEHLE INCREDIBLE ELEGANCE PORTRAIT $10.99 Time Remaining: 22d 16h 51m Buy It Now for only: $10.99 |
 Ginger Rogers 1941 Large Magazine Cover Photo $19.97 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 20h 31m |
 GINGER ROGERS Once Upon a Honeymoon Orig 1942 Photo John Miehle $12.95 Time Remaining: 13h 42m Buy It Now for only: $14.95 |
 GINGER ROGERS 8X11 Photo BW 30s SEXY PORTRAIT $9.99 Time Remaining: 4d 22h 47m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE The Castles Orig 1939 Photo John Miehle $29.95 Time Remaining: 21h 47m Buy It Now for only: $34.95 |
 1943 Ginger Rogers Promotional Still RKO Radio Stripes Legs Vintage Photo $39.99 Time Remaining: 6d 9h 48m |
 Ginger Rogers Original Promo Photo Faces to Remember Then and Now $9.95 Time Remaining: 27d 19h 46m Buy It Now for only: $9.95 |
 JEAN HARLOW Carol Lynley Ginger Rogers LOBBY CARD 65 $4.99 Time Remaining: 14h 18m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 JEAN HARLOW Carol Lynley Ginger Rogers LOBBY CARD 65 $4.99 Time Remaining: 15h 11m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 PHOTO C8343 Ginger Rogers Leggy $9.99 Time Remaining: 28d 21h 10m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 Press Photo Ginger Rogers 8x10 BW $7.00 Time Remaining: 22h 31m |
 THE INCREDIBLE HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS GINGER ROGERS IN MAGNIFICENT COLOR $9.99 Time Remaining: 4d 22h 12m |
 GINGER ROGERS scene still with male d554 $6.25 Time Remaining: 18d 19h 11m Buy It Now for only: $6.25 |
 HF16 Having Wonder TIme GINGER ROGERS Title Lobby Card $239.00 Time Remaining: 23h 31m Buy It Now for only: $275.00 |
 HI14 Lucky Partners GINGER ROGERS Title Lobby Card $155.00 Time Remaining: 23h 33m Buy It Now for only: $178.00 |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers 34 GORGEOUS EARLY GLAMOUR Portrait by IRVING LIPPMAN $94.95 Time Remaining: 10d 13h 33m Buy It Now for only: $94.95 |
 HC15 Roxie Hart GINGER ROGERS 1942 Title Lobby Card $201.99 Time Remaining: 23h 29m Buy It Now for only: $232.00 |
 GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE PUBLICITY PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 TOP HAT $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE DANCING 16x20 PHOTOGRAPH $19.99 Time Remaining: 29d 21h 16m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 HD10 Fifth Ave Girl GINGER ROGERS 1939 Title Lobby Card $249.00 Time Remaining: 23h 30m Buy It Now for only: $286.00 |
 HC07 Kitty Foyle GINGER ROGERS signed Title Lobby Card $150.99 Time Remaining: 23h 29m Buy It Now for only: $174.00 |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers 37 GORGEOUS SEXY LEGS Portrait by ERNEST BACHRACH $194.95 Time Remaining: 17d 22h 46m Buy It Now for only: $194.95 |
 Barbara Eden Elliott Gould Ginger Rogers THE CONFESSION LOBBY CARD 1964 $6.49 Time Remaining: 16h 15m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 150308CR SHIRLEY MACLAINE GINGER ROGERS MARK ALDEN FEBRUARY 23 1958 NEWSPAPER $19.99 Time Remaining: 14h 23m Buy It Now for only: $39.50 |
 GINGER ROGERS LEGGY SWIMSUIT CHEESECAKE 8X10 PHOTO $16.99 Time Remaining: 10d 16m Buy It Now for only: $16.99 |
 FIFTH AVENUE GIRL 1939GINGER ROGERS ORIGINAL CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL LOBBY CARD $150.00 Time Remaining: 11h 52m |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers EARLY 31 Paramount LINENBACKED Portrait $194.95 Time Remaining: 10d 13h 33m Buy It Now for only: $194.95 |
 Ginger Rogers David Niven Magnificent Vtg Orig 1946 8x10 photo $10.00 Time Remaining: 3d 10h 6m |
 GINGER ROGERS 1984 FIGURINE THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY $6.99 Time Remaining: 21h 49m |
 GINGER ROGERS Vintage 1942 ROXIE HART candid set PHOTO $24.95 Time Remaining: 6d 2h 29m Buy It Now for only: $24.95 |
 GINGER ROGERS and JEAN PIERRE AUMONT in HEARTBEAT Vintage Photo 1946 $11.95 Time Remaining: 22h 52m |
 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Carefree 1939 8x10 photo $8.00 Time Remaining: 3d 10h 4m |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers TENDER COMRADE 46 LINENBACKED Publicity Portrait $34.95 Time Remaining: 10d 13h 23m Buy It Now for only: $34.95 |
 Harlow movie poster starring Ginger Rogers and Carol Lynley $9.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 3d 10h 34m |
 GINGER ROGERS DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Jr PUBLICITY PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 GINGER ROGERS Original 46 Photo POWDERING NOSE Candid $16.00 Time Remaining: 28d 21h 42m Buy It Now for only: $16.00 |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers 50s SEXY GLAMOUR Portrait $34.95 Time Remaining: 20h 12m |
 GX11 Ill Be Seeing You GINGER ROGERS 1945 Lobby Card $41.00 Time Remaining: 23h 26m Buy It Now for only: $47.00 |
 FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS 8X11 Photo BW 1938 $10.99 Time Remaining: 19d 3h 22m Buy It Now for only: $10.99 |
 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Carefree single reel 35mm 600 of film $24.99 Time Remaining: 3d 10h 3m |
 9 x 12 sheet music Did You Ever See A Dream Walking Oakie Haley Ginger Rogers $3.00 Time Remaining: 17h 20m |
 Ginger Rogers George Montgomery 1942 Roxie Hart 7 x 9 Promotional Photo $19.00 Time Remaining: 9d 7h 8m Buy It Now for only: $19.00 |
 Original GOLD DIGGERS OF 33 Ruby Keeler Dick Powell Ginger Rogers HERALD $74.95 Time Remaining: 23h 26m |
 SHIRLEY TEMPLE Ill Be Seeing You 44 22 x 28 Ginger Rogers Joseph Cotton $75.00 Time Remaining: 22h 16m Buy It Now for only: $225.00 |
 GINGER ROGERS TEENAGE REBEL VINTAGE 4 PHOTO LOT S228 $9.99 Time Remaining: 28d 18h 53m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 HE13 Lucky Partners GINGER ROGERS 1940 Title Lobby Card $154.99 Time Remaining: 23h 31m Buy It Now for only: $178.00 |
 GINGER ROGERS FASHION PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 Vintage Ginger Rogers 40s GORGEOUS GLAMOUR Portrait $34.95 Time Remaining: 17d 22h 46m Buy It Now for only: $34.95 |
 GINGER ROGERS PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 4 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 GINGER ROGERS PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 2 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS PHOTO from the 1937 movie SHALL WE DANCE $6.99 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 35m Buy It Now for only: $6.99 |
 GINGER ROGERS FASHION PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 2 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 GINGER ROGERS PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 Bachelor Mother 39 Ginger Rogers David Niven Original Photo $12.00 Time Remaining: 12d 16h 11m Buy It Now for only: $12.00 |
 Ginger Rogers with Jean Pierre Aumont original photo 1945 Heartbeat $9.99 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 26m |
 HJ15 Kitty Foyle GINGER ROGERS DENNIS MORGAN Lobby Card $45.00 Time Remaining: 23h 34m Buy It Now for only: $52.00 |
 GINGER ROGERS PINUP PHOTOGRAPH $9.99 Time Remaining: 16d 21h 46m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 GB42 Major Minor GINGER ROGERS RAY MILLAND Lobby Card $80.00 Time Remaining: 23h 13m Buy It Now for only: $92.00 |
 GINGER ROGERS BRUNETTE PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 GINGER ROGERS THEATRE Original Camera 35mm TRANSPARENCY R331 $24.99 Time Remaining: 4d 14h 36m Buy It Now for only: $24.99 |
 GINGER ROGERS Sintonia Argentina magazine Cover1938 $14.99 Time Remaining: 2d 20h 12m |
 GINGER ROGERS VINTAGE SEPIA PHOTO PORTRAIT 8x10 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 13m |
 Vintage 1942 Cary Grant Ginger Rogers Once Upon A Honeymoon Movie Promo Photo $9.99 Time Remaining: 3d 17h 47m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 Dan Dailey Ginger Rogers David Niven Tony Randall 1957 $4.99 Time Remaining: 12h 27m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 Ginger Rogers 1956 Vintage 8x10 Stunning Photo Snipe $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 22h 29m |
 GINGER ROGERS great portriat still l757 $6.25 Time Remaining: 20d 4h 27m Buy It Now for only: $6.25 |
 FRED ASTAIREGINGER ROGERS Cine Radio ActualidadUruguay magazine Cover1937 $14.99 Time Remaining: 2d 20h 13m |
 FRED ASTAIRE Film Star Hollywood Legend Ginger Rogers $2.99 Time Remaining: 1d 45m Buy It Now for only: $4.95 |
 VTG Movie Press photo 5 x 7 GINGER ROGERS $29.99 Time Remaining: 24d 1h 6m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 |
 Tight Spot half sheet poster starring Ginger Rogers and Edward G Robinson 1955 $9.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 3d 10h 40m |
 GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE DANCING PHOTO PORTRAIT 8X10 $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 11m |
 GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE 8X11 Photo BW DANCING GLAMOUR PORTRAIT $10.99 Time Remaining: 10d 19h 50m Buy It Now for only: $10.99 |
 Original BW Star Portrait Ginger Rogers RKO Radio 95 x 7 Inches $9.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 12h 47m |
 8X10 BW PHOTO OF GINGER ROGERS PRETTY $0.99 Time Remaining: 21h 53m |
 Ginger Rogers Dennis Morgan Kitty Foyle 1940 ORIGINAL scene still $9.99 Time Remaining: 27d 17h 37m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 Vintage GINGER ROGERS FRED ASTAIRE Colourgraph UK 1930s Postcard $5.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 17h 18m |
Ginger Rogers
Aunt Ruth and the Ginger Snap Cookie Incident
We grew up in the 1940’s and ‘50’s on a small dairy and chicken farm in Belfast, Maine. ‘We’ being my two brothers and three cousins. Times there were hard. Farming in those days, as I suspect it is now, was an austere life. Lots of hard work with little compensation. I think the people who bought our milk and chickens made the money. The small farmer seldom benefited then and I doubt they are doing much better today.
There wasn’t a lot of money for extras or store - bought things especially sweets like cookies, cakes, or pies. Things that kids love. Not to worry. We were blessed to have as our aunt one of the finest – maybe THE finest - bakers of such things as there was in the ‘kind old state’ of Maine if not the entire New England area.
Aunt Ruth baked all of our pastries. She labored in a hot kitchen with an antiquated cook stove year round. She baked an assortment of goodies, but cookies were her specialty although her cakes were not to be discounted. She baked cakes for all occasions including every birthday for each kid. We chose the cake we wanted and Aunt Ruth made it for us with our name on it – decorating done by hand. My favorite was her chocolate cake with vanilla frosting.
She baked a variety of cookies including a wicked molasses cookie, a delicious oatmeal cookie with raisins, and, of course everyone’s favorite, her chocolate chip cookie filled with big tasty chocolate nuggets. (There were no ‘Famous Amos’ cookies in those days!)
However good these were – and they disappeared fast with six youngsters around the house - I think her favorite was her ginger snaps. My reasoning is that she baked those most often.
Now, I have mentioned the state of the kitchen she had to work in as not being the best suited for baking. How she did what she did still puzzles me. (I’ve tried baking from scratch. It isn’t an easy task.) Taking that into account, she did have a tendency to bake those ginger snaps to a rather well done state. Perhaps she liked them that way. Man, you really had to bite down hard on those babies to get a piece to break off in your mouth. Chewing them was another challenge. It was best, we learned, to let them sit in your mouth for awhile while they softened up before you started chewing on them. I say this because we hated going to the dentist and those ginger snaps were about the quickest way to earn a trip there that I know.
One winter afternoon she had labored lovingly and turned out a big batch of those ginger snaps – dozens of them if I remember correctly. Now, I have mentioned that dear Aunt Ruth had a penchant for baking this type of cookie quite firm to say the least. I don’t know what happened that day, but this particular batch had to be the firmest yet! They were rock hard.
That evening the entire family gathered at about six o’clock for dinner as was customary. (Do they do that anymore?) Seating had its pecking order. Adults, mostly men, sat in the breakfast nook, kids in the kitchen at a small table. That’s how it always was - for years. There was a further refinement of this pecking order in that each adult had his particular spot at the table, too. Of most importance to this story was the seating of my Grandfather, Fred. He sat in the far end of the table next to the window. As long as he lived that was his spot and no one had better try to sit there. It just didn’t happen. He was the Alpha male!
That night after dinner was served and eaten, hot tea and dessert was offered. Aunt Ruth proudly produced her ginger snap cookies as the evening fare. A rounded plate of them was delivered to the adult table; more than enough to go around.
One thing about my Grandfather you would notice was that he had only several teeth remaining with which to chew. There was no way he was going to bite off any amount of a ginger snap - not these particular ginger snaps especially - no matter how long he soaked them in his hot tea. I think that frustrated him somewhat because he could fare quite well with most foods even without an abundance of teeth. He had to say something about this situation; that was his way. He and Aunt Ruth had running gun battles in the teasing ways.
I, sitting at the kids’ table in the kitchen, saw him looking my way with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
“Berthie,” he said, “Could you hand me my hammer?”
My Grandmother Bertha, standing in the kitchen with my Aunt Ruth, was perplexed.
“Fred,” she asked, “Why in the world would you need your hammer at the dinner table?”
“To break up this damned cookie, that’s why!” announced Fred in a voice which could be heard throughout the living area.
There was a moment of deafening silence in the house. Something was going to come of this insult. It was not to pass unnoticed by my Aunt Ruth, not to be unpunished. Action was called for.
Aunt Ruth was the nicest person you’d ever meet. She was not the type to easily be riled. However…NEVER belittle her baking! Nor any of the products of her hand.
She reacted as quick as lightning. It could not have been faster. In one sweeping motion of her arm she launched one of those ginger snaps out of the kitchen and into the breakfast nook. Roger Clemens, with or without performance enhancers, had nothing on the speed of that cookie traveling the twenty five feet or so to its mark
That cookie - now a deadly missile - sailed out of the kitchen and into the breakfast nook like a Frisbee - no, more like a discus owing to its texture – and hit my grandfather right between the eyes. There is no describing the surprise on his face as a little trickle of blood soon appeared at the bridge of his nose.
There were about sixteen people having dinner that night including hired hands and uncles as well as six children. There were sixteen gasps as this happened. Our grandfather was the patriarch. He ruled the roost. You simply did not throw ginger snaps at him; we all knew that for sure.
Then, as quickly as the gasps died down, a rousing round of laughter began. We all laughed until tears were flowing though no one with more glee and gusto than Aunt Ruth.
However, I think my grandfather laughed hardest of all. He loved a good joke - even if it was on him! He was given a bandaid and all was forgiven. But, he never again - not once - made a disparaging remark about Aunt Ruth’s ginger snap cookies no matter how hard they were.
About the Author
Major Dennis Copson is a retired US Marine living in Oceanside, Ca where he is the Director of Sales and Marketing for Nature's Big Bud Worm Castings and a feelance writer. More info is available on his website at www.naturesbigbud.com
Site with good Ginger Rogers biography and facts?
I need a site that has A LOT of info about her, and her relationship with Fred Astaire. No Wikipedia and it needs to be legit! Help 
This any good? http://www.gingerrogers.com/about/bio.html
Ginger Rogers dances Salsa at 92 years old