With Base: 50.8 x 18.7 x 26.7cm (20 x 7 3/8 x 10 1/2")
Without Base: 37.5 x 18.7 x 26.7cm (14 3/4 x 7 3/8 x 10 1/2")
Base: 13.3 x 18.7 x 20.3cm (5 1/4 x 7 3/8 x 8")
Type:
Sculpture
Place:
United States\Arizona
Date:
1942
Exhibition Label:
Born Independence, Missouri
Ginger Rogers won the Texas State Charleston Championship at age fourteen and then embarked on the vaudeville circuit, chaperoned by her mother. By 1930 she had become a Broadway star in the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy. Hollywood then beckoned, and Rogers partnered in ten films with Fred Astaire, bringing a silvery glamour to Depression-era America in such movies as Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, and Shall We Dance. Other films included Stage Door, with Katharine Hepburn, and Kitty Foyle, for which she received a Best Actress Oscar in 1940. Her friend Isamu Noguchi worked on this sculpture while interned at a wartime camp for Japanese Americans.
