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Free Thinking: Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

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Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Ginger Rogers's dancing, comic timing and 'sass'.

Hollywood star Ginger Rogers is the focus of a season of films showing at the BFI. Matthew Sweet and guests discuss her dancing, comic timing and her 'sass'.

‘Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but backwards and in high heels’ said cartoonist Bob Thaves. Matthew Sweet is joined by Lucy Bolton, Pamela Hutchinson, David Benedict and Miles Eady to look at her life (1911-1995) and a film career that stretched far beyond the 10 movies she made with Astaire, including   an Oscar winning performance in Kitty Foyle.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

The BFI season runs to the end of April

Many of Ginger Rogers's RKO films are available to watch on iPlayer, including Primrose Path, Kitty Foyle, Vivacious Lady, Carefree and The Gay Divorcee.  

You can find a whole series of episodes of Free Thinking devoted to film stars including Asta Nielsen, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn

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