Ginger Rogers Birthday
Today is the birthday of Ginger Rogers (for her full story go here). The footage below is from her 83rd birthday celebration in 1994. Heartwarming to see how many fans she had even then:
To find out about the history of vaudeville, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold. Also please keep a look out for Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies From Nickelodeon to Youtube, coming out in September 2012
