Dana Plato

Coleman, in fact, ran for Governor of California during the 2003 recall election. The Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in Medford, Oregon is named in her honor. Of the child stars on Diff'rent Strokes, Plato got into the most trouble, while Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges are still alive. Ginger Rogers died in 1995 and was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. Her death was subsequently ruled a suicide. 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. They stopped at Lambert's mother's home in Moore, Oklahoma for a Mother's Day visit, where she died of a prescription drug overdose. 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.

In 1999 she and Lambert were returning to California following Plato's appearance on the Howard Stern show, hoping to revive her stagnant career. In 1943, she married her third husband, Jack Briggs, a Marine; they divorced in 1949. The following year Plato was arrested again, this time for forging a prescription for Valium. In 1934, she married her second husband, actor Lew Ayres (1908–1996); they separated quickly and were divorced in 1941. She was arrested in 1991 for robbing a video store in Las Vegas, but was placed on probation. 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. Her one year marriage to Lanny Lambert produced a son, Tyler Lambert (born 1985). This close mother-daughter relationship has been proffered to explain at least in part Rogers's history of marital disappointment.

She was also the feature of a Playboy pictorial in 1989. 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. and Jill) (1997). In 1940 Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her starring role in Kitty Foyle. Different Strokes: The story of Jack and Jill.. In 1939, she played opposite David Niven in Bachelor Mother. Plato appeared partially nude in Prime Suspect (1988), Compelling Evidence (1995), and Different Strokes (a.k.a. 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.