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Ginger Rogers Research Paper

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The summer of 1911 Hollywood star, Ginger Rogers, was born in Independence, Missouri. Ginger, a young and talented girl, grew up to be a famous and one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood, America’s most famous city for acting. Ginger grew up to be a very successful actress due to the support and help of family and friends. On July sixteenth of 1911, Lela McMath gave birth to Virginia Katherine McMath. Virginia was born in a front room in a two room house on Moore Street in Independence, Missouri (Ginger Rogers 2010). Virginia changed her name to Ginger because of her younger cousin, Helen, who mispronounced her name as Ginja (Bio. 2016). Shortly after Virginia was born, Lela divorced her husband, William McMath, and left her daughter with her parents, Walter and Saphrona Ball Owens, as she went off to Hollywood to begin writing movies (Ginger Rogers 2010).
Those who knew Ginger as a little girl said that she could dance before she walked. Ginger Rogers once said “My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months” (Bio. 2016). Ginger grew up having a passion and love for dancing and performing,
At the age of 9, Ginger’s mother got married to John Rogers …show more content…

2016). This represents her hard work and determination for what she wanted. She never wanted to be given anything because then she couldn’t enjoy it. Another quote she said was “When two people are in love, they don’t look at each other: they look in the same direction” (Bio. 2016). This represents how she didn’t take all the credit for all the success she had with her career. How her and her mother looked in the same direction, went after it, and succeeded. It is said that Ginger credited most of her success to her mom (Ginger Rogers 2016). That Ginger would have never been able to do what she did without the help and support of her

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