Picture-Play Magazine (1938)

73 Ginger's Got Her Dander Up Continued jrom page .'1 in the picture. This was. I believe, in "Folllow the Fleet." 1 1 was Ginger who, only I recently, on the occasion of Katharine HepIburn's supposed birthday, planned the parade, complete with brass hand, stuffed animals, calliope and hot dogs, which invaded the "Bringing Up Baby" set and disrupted work for the day. I saw her when she had stood on her two feet for five solid hours for fittings, the most trying part of any actress's job. Every one else was nearing hysteria from fatigue. Ginger suddenly seized numbers ot hats and perched them on her head at jaunty and naughty angles. ""Now I'm Pagliacci!" she cried. '"Now Tin little Lord Fauntleroy!" She sent out for coca colas all round and suddenly the entire affair turned into a sort of party. When she isn't actually clowning on her two feet, she is writing jingles, working puzzles, inventing new games. She doesn't like [to do these things alone. She wants other people to join in her fun. The result of all llii is that all the people on a Ginger Rogers Iset are absorbed, most of the time, in answerBig questions or playing games. Personally, I am tired of the stars who [maintain that their mothers are "like sisters*' lo them. Mis. Rogers doesn't seem a hit like Gin[ger's sister to me. But she doesn't seem like the traditional mother, either. She might [live across the street and take a casual. [friendly interest in "that Rogers girl." Each lias her own group of friends and they are sharply divided in tastes and general activities. Mrs. Rogers officiates at the outdoor kitchen sometimes when Ginger has her gang lor a Sunday afternoon hoopla. But Ginger doesn't attend her mother's parties. Ginger's gang consists, lor the most part. Danielle Darrieux enjoys a brisk iwalk with John King on the Universe! lot where she is to make la picture. She's jus* over from France, you know. of the Andy Devines, Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward, \nne Shirley and John Payne, Gary Grant. Ben Alexander. Phyllis Frazer. One senses a hit of extra warmth in the greeting when Lee Bowman appeals on the doorstep. Ginger is almost painfully shy when she attends a large party. The set seems to be home ground for her. She is at ease. She has fun. But a large gathering of people, done up in their best bibs and tuckers, intent upon enjoying themselves at any cost, appalls her. She dislikes anything which smacks of formality. That is why all her parties are picnic parties, with outdoor cooking, people mixing their own chocolate sundaes, inventing their own fun. Ginger never wears formal clothes, if she can help it, in private life. She likes slacks and sweaters and casual jackets. She rarely wears a hat. lo pull together some slender threads which may tell you more about Ginger. There is a forma] sweep ol lovely lawn at the center of her garden. The borders, which are Ginger's own and where she digs joyously, are planted in a hodgepodge of flowers which have sweet scents. Roses, mignonette, rosegeranium — all the spicy, smelly blooms without anj especial regard to colors or garden decoration. Her house was planned in the first place for Ginger's mother — hack in the days when Ginger thought that her marriage was going to last. Compact, homelike, elastic enough to accommodate a few guests. The house was in the process of being built when Ginger became convinced that her marriage was, at least temporarily, on the rocks. She and her mother expanded and augmented the plans. Underneath the blue-and-white living room they added a gay pine and red leather playroom where Ginger could entertain her gang. Next to it they built a ping-pong room, equipped with tables for all sorts of games. The two rooms may be thrown together and a screen slides out from somewhere if Ginger wants to run a picture. She installed the soda fountain, complete with all the squirting gadgets and the things which go "spudge" when flavored sirupemerge from them. An outdoor corridor leads to a sundeck and a patio with an outdoor fireplace where Mrs. Rogers cooks those famous steaks and chickens on Sunday evenings. Give Ginger's mother an iron skillet and a pair of chickens or an earthen pot, a piece of salt pork and some beans — and amazing things happen. Ginger and her mother shop, take long walks and drives, lead aloud, and perhaps there is something significant in the fact that Ginger always calls her mother "Leilah." Ginger's friends and Mrs. Rogers's friends have a nickname for her which sounds like "Leelee." Ginger never uses it. In the new house Ginger had some empty bookcases. "\\ hen I have time," she said, "I shall fill these shelves with hooks of poetry — good poetry." 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