Ginger Rogers

The Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in Medford, Oregon is named in her honor. They have a son, Miles William, and a daughter, Stella Street. Ginger Rogers died in 1995 and was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. She is married to Davis Guggenheim, director of the HBO TV Series "Tombstone". In 1961, she married her fifth husband, director and producer William Marshall, but separated from him within weeks of their marriage, eventually divorcing him in 1969. Since, she has starred in The Saint, Deconstructing Harry, and Palmetto. In 1953, she married her fourth husband, lawyer Jacques Bergerac (16 years her junior, he became an actor and then a cosmetics company executive); they divorced in 1957 and he soon remarried actress Dorothy Malone. Her portrayal of a prostitute mixed up with a suicidal alcoholic earned her a Best Actress nomination at the Academy Awards.

In 1943, she married her third husband, Jack Briggs, a Marine; they divorced in 1949. Trying to shed her girl-next-door image, Elisabeth took a chance on a low-budget, high-risk project called Leaving Las Vegas. In 1934, she married her second husband, actor Lew Ayres (1908–1996); they separated quickly and were divorced in 1941. She continued her acting work with Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, Soapdish and The Marrying Man, as well as playing the role of Jennifer Parker in the two Back to the Future sequels. She first married her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper) on March 29, 1929; they divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. In 1984, she co-starred in The Karate Kid as the onscreen girlfriend of Ralph Macchio and a role as the teenage daughter of a military family in the short-lived series, "Call to Glory". This close mother-daughter relationship has been proffered to explain at least in part Rogers's history of marital disappointment. Elisabeth watched helplessly.

She was a conservative Republican politically, and lived for much of her life with her mother, Lela Owens McMath Rogers (1891–1977), a Christian Scientist who was a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, movie producer, one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps, and a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Another brother William, died from a freak accident while on family vacation. In 1940 Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her starring role in Kitty Foyle. Her brother is Melrose Place actor Andrew Shue. In 1939, she played opposite David Niven in Bachelor Mother. Shue later attended Wellesley College and acted in television commercials for extra spending money. Her first roles were in a trio of short films made in 1929 — Night in the Dormitory, A Day of a Man of Affairs, and Campus Sweethearts. Her father, who was active in Republican politics, once unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in New Jersey.

She is most remembered as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten all-singing all-dancing Hollywood musicals, but her acting career spanned over thirty years. Her parents divorced while she was in the fourth grade. Virginia Katherine McMath (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995), better known as Ginger Rogers, was an American actress and dancer. Shue was born into a well-heeled and well-educated family and grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey. Variants include "Astaire gave her class, and Rogers gave him sex" and "He gave her class, and she gave him sex.". Elisabeth Shue (born October 6, 1963 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American film actress. "Fred gave Ginger class, and Ginger gave Fred sex." Katharine Hepburn, actress. Hide and Seek (2005).

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards and in high heels." Faith Whittlesey, former US ambassador to Switzerland. Responsibility for this quote also has been traced to a 1982 Frank and Ernest cartoon. Hollow Man (2000). The Saint (1997). Leaving Las Vegas (1995). Back to the Future Part III (1990).

Back to the Future Part II (1989). Cocktail (1987). Adventures in Babysitting (1987). The Karate Kid (1984).