- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 29 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 29 minutes). [Begins with music and voice of unidentified male introducing Ginger Rogers]; Rogers speaks about the fact that her shoes were often uncomfortable; the joy she felt when dancing; dance music she especially liked; reminiscences about her childhood and her mother including the fact that her mother was one of the very first female members of the U.S. Marine Corps; the origins of her professional career; her first roles on Broadway, including the musical comedy Top speed and the lead part in the musical comedy Girl crazy; her first film role, in Young man of Manhattan; working in films in California; an anecdote about Darryl Zanuck; the film Flying down to Rio; her reasons for requesting roles that were not comic including her confidence in her dramatic acting ability; her feelings about winning an Oscar (Academy award) for her performance in the film Kitty Foyle; her love of challenges [music].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Dance Audio Archive.
- New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Ginger Rogers by an unidentified male interviewer, in New York, on January 23, 1974. The recording may be of a program that was made for radio broadcast.
- Sound quality is good.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Funding (note)
- The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 7-1200
- OCLC
- 51575184
- Author
Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Ginger Rogers, 1974
- Imprint
1974.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
January 23, 1974 New York (N.Y.)
- Funding
The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 29 minutes); full-track, 3.75 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto71200_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTL 4-1200
Former call number: *MGZT 7-1200
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- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 7-1200