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Title: Ginger: My Story by Ginger Rogers ISBN: 0-06-018308-X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best Books I've Ever Read
Comment: I am a great fan of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. When I learned that she had written an autobiography, I wanted to read it right away. This book was so good and informative, that I read all 450 pages within a few days. In her book, she talks about her childhood, her devotion to her mother, Lela, her stage career, her romances, and her movie career. I reccomend this book to any Ginger Rogers or Astaire and Rogers fan.
Rating: 2
Summary: Blah blah blah. What an irritating woman.
Comment: I'm sorry that she's dead, but I have to say after reading this book that I found Ginger Rogers to be a self-righteous prig.
To hear her tell it, every cute scene in every one of her movies was her idea. Every glamourous dress she wore was her idea. And, of course, everyone loved her.
Particularly Mommy.
Ginger is obsessed with her mother. It's like she never moved past that "I'm gonna tell my Mommy!" phase of childhood developement. She never fought a battle of her own; she just called Mommy to do it for her, so that she could stay in her dressing room drinking milkshakes and praying.
I have respect for anyone in Hollywood, past present or future, who is willing to stand up and declare that they have a religious faith. But constant harping on how God healed the boils on her husband's butt gets a little wearying. Her constant determination to tell everyone how to live, coupled with her ridiculously childish practical jokes, leave me in no doubt as to why all of her non-drinking husbands became drinkers in a hurry.
She was a great entertainer, and some bits of the book were fairly interesting, but I think I finished it because I was fascinated by her ego and disastrous marriages than because I had fun with it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ginger's memoir is truly a delight!
Comment: According to one writer and critic 'Ginger my story' was greeted with 'critical yawns' upon it's publication in 1991. Personally I couldn't disagree more. Reading this book was a truly heartwarming experience from beggining to end. Ginger writes candidly about her upbringing, her early experiences on the vaudeville circuit, her hollywood film career (including the pitfalls of being a woman in Hollywood) and the sad story of her five marriages which all ended in divorce. Ginger tells delightful anecdotes about her encounters with other famous folk - George Gershwin, FDR, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Noel Coward, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra etc. It is wonderful to know how devoted she was to her mother Lela (to whom the book is dedicated) and the chapter where she describes how she coped with Lela's death is truly poignant. The most interesting parts for me was where she describes how christian science had helped her through life and how she had had used it to help others (she cured her third husband of warts and her fourth husband of boils!). I did feel quite sad though reading this knowing that Ginger was no longer with us (it's a shame she couldn't have used christian science to save herself from diabetes;she died from the disease in April 1995) for I would surely have written to her congratulating her for having written such a wonderful memoir.
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Title: Astaire and Rogers by Edward Gallafent ISBN: 0231126263 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Steps in Time by Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Jennifer Dunning ISBN: 0815410581 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book. by Arlene Croce ISBN: 0876900279 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: November, 1972 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Lana by Outlet ISBN: 0517447878 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 13 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Ava : My Story by Ava Gardner ISBN: 0553071343 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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