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Ginger
Private views from a star's album, and personal tips on camera tricks from Ginger Rogers — who always gets what she wants to photograph
IF YOU should go up to Ginger Rogers and say : "You can't do that !" about anything, she'd automatically reply: "Why not?" and then do it. Not in a spirit of "I'll prove you're wrong!" but because she'd want to find out what was so impossible about it. She loves to figure things out, which is one of the reasons she enjoys her candid camera.
I found her in her peach-and-cream dressing-room, sitting on the silken couch, almost buried under a selection of architect's drawings depicting various swimming pools. The room itself is a setting for a princess, but its owner was wearing simple blue slacks, her curls tied back with a narrow ribbon.
When Ginger is present, you don't notice the things around her, but when she isn't in that dressing-room to distract your attention, the thing that dominates it is a large charcoal sketch of an old woman, a strangely powerful sketch not quite finished. Ginger made it herself, sketching and painting are among her hobbies.
"Taking pictures is just a variation of that art urge," she laughed, "I'm a camera fiend. I'm not satisfied with anything I've done so far, but I'm learning. Whether the stuff is good or not, though, it's fun !"
When Ginger was thirteen, she won a prize in a contest. The prize was a vaudeville tour of several weeks and that's the way her interest in cameras was born.
"I wanted a record of the trip," she explained, "so I bought a little Brownie — just a tiny box affair — and everywhere we went, we snapped pictures. Sometimes we 'gagged' them, standing against the huge billboards that advertised our show; sometimes they were just the sort
Don't tell Ginger she can't get a certain camera effect — she'll go right out and prove you're wrong! Top left, the star shows some pictures to Musical Director Nathaniel Shilkret. Next, reading down: her co-star, Fred Astaire, on the sidelines of a night set; Ginger and Fred dance, taken with Ginger's camera; her mother, Mrs. Lela Rogers, plays backgammon; dance number on the set. Below, Phyllis Fraser and Anne Shirley.