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JAZZ AND GINGER ROGERS Katherine McMath (aka Ginger Rogers) was born on 16 July, 1911 at Independence in Missouri, USA. When she was ten years old she was taking professional dance classes. She sowed a lot of promise as an athlete and pianist. Not yet fifteen and with a “theatrical mother from hell” 1 Ginger was on the cover of a magazine (“Vaudeville News”). The review said she had “legs as fast as lightning” and a “sweet stage disposition.”2 She often performed “recitations about animals in a coy ‘baby-voice’”3 Ginger Rogers’ style that is unique and identifiable (apart from the above) include the amalgamation of comedy, dancing, acting and singing in live performances eg. Broadway, and movies eg. Hollywood and MGM. A critic wrote about Ginger saying, “undeniably multi-talented, she may not have been a great actress singer, dancer or comedienne, but she could get by well enough in all four directions at a time of the early Thirties, when most Hollywood stars were still learning ho to speak and w