After small roles in some of Rogers’ films, including Top Hat, Ball landed a major part in 1937’s Stage Door. "She learned a ...

Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers), second banana in the ... tattered couches in the Footlights Club’s living room. Rogers made Stage Door in the midst of her streak of musicals with Fred Astaire.

Watch for the great “Stage Door,” in which Rogers and Katharine Hepburn make unexpectedly perfect sparring partners, and “Bachelor Mother,” a charming 1939 screwball in which Ginger finds ...

Greg La Cava was not going to argue with Ginger Rogers. So he simply said, "There we go girls." Annie herself told me that story. She said that’s how she got the part in "Stage Door," which set ...