The best Ginger Rogers’s comedy movies

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

16/07/1911- 25/04/1995
Today we present the best Ginger Rogers’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ginger Rogers’s movies.
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Top Hat

Top Hat
7.7/10
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/05/1933
  • Character: Fay Fortune
Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.

The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/10/1934
  • Character: Mimi Glossop
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

42nd Street

42nd Street
7.3/10
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Monkey Business

Monkey Business
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/09/1952
  • Character: Edwina Fulton
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/06/1939
  • Character: Polly Parrish
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

Stage Door

Stage Door
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/10/1937
  • Character: Jean Maitland
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.

Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio
6.6/10
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

The Groom Wore Spurs

The Groom Wore Spurs
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1951
  • Character: AJ Furnival
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.

Swing Time

Swing Time
7.5/10
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.

The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/09/1942
  • Character: Susan Applegate
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.

Carefree

Carefree
7/10
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.

Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan
7.3/10
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.

Roberta

Roberta
7/10
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.4/10
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

Shall We Dance

Shall We Dance
7.4/10
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.

Lucky Partners

Lucky Partners
6.5/10
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

We're Not Married!

We're Not Married!
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1952
  • Character: Ramona Gladwyn
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

Roxie Hart

Roxie Hart
6.9/10
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Barkleys of Broadway
7/10
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.

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