Musical 'Backwards in High Heels' opens at Oregon Cabaret Theatre - Gate House

Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)

2015-02-10

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Ginger Rogers will always be remembered as the cool, lithe blonde in the arms of Fred Astaire. But did you know she started as a dancer in vaudeville after winning a Charleston contest at age 15? That her first success on Broadway was in a show with Ethel Merman? Or that she won an Academy Award for best actress in 1940 in the dramatic tearjerker, “Kitty Foyle”?