IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.
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.
