"Actor: Ginger Rogers"

• Beautiful Stranger | Blu Ray | (06/05/2019) from £8.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hollywood icon Ginger Rogers makes her British film debut in this rarely-seen crime drama from the early 1950s. Directed by David Miller - then riding high with his American noir classic Sudden Fear! - and co-starring Herbert Lom and a young Stanley Baker, Beautiful Stranger is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Johnny Victor, a gorgeous ex-actress, lives in luxury on the French Riviera courtesy of Louis Galt - a wealthy businessman with global interests. But Louis' fortune is built on crime and his possessive mania brings about a train of violence from which death is the only certain outcome... Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Tales Of Manhattan | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In these five sumptuous vignettes set for the most part in New York, the black formal coat is the only linking device. We first come across the coat in short noir about a matinee idol (Charles Boyer) embroiled in a love triangle with a callous woman (Rita Hayworth) and her sadistic husband. The second is a comical tale starring Ginger Rogers, Cesar Romero and Henry Fonda about a love cheat and his best friend. The third is a tearjerker with Charles Laughton as an amateur musician yearning to.

• Follow The Fleet | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £13.47   |  Saving you £2.52 (18.71%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When the fleet puts in at San Francisco sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner... A jamboree for fans of Hollywood musicals with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.

• Flying Down to Rio | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1933, RKO Pictures had the bright idea of pairing Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond for their new musical blockbuster, Flying Down to Rio. The film was a smash, but not for the reasons anyone expected. The fourth and fifth-billed stars were an RKO bit player and a Broadway man breaking into Hollywood. Their names were Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, and their pairing in this and eight subsequent RKO films would help to rewrite cinematic history. Most of Rio's screen time is spent on a humdrum romantic triangle involving Del Rio, Raymond and Raul Roulien, but Fred (as Fred Ayres) and Ginger (as Honey Hayes) are still able to establish many of the trademarks of their later films. Ginger fronts the band (with Fred on accordion) in the saucy "Music Makes Me", and Fred does some solo tap then sings and leads the band for the spectacular airborne finale featuring chorus girls perched on the wings of biplanes. The heart of the film is "The Carioca", a company dance extravaganza that would be imitated by "The Continental" and "The Piccolino" in later films. Here Fred and Ginger take the floor together for the first time; their eyes meet and their foreheads touch. Their dance lasts only a few minutes, but it was the highlight of the film and audiences wanted more. A prophetic moment occurs toward the beginning of the dance, when, after watching for a while, Fred grabs Ginger and tells her, "I want to try this. Come on, Honey". She declares, "We'll show 'em a thing or three". They did indeed. It was magic, and it was only the beginning. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Fifth Avenue Girl | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ginger Rogers (Vivacious Lady Kitty Foyle) stars in this sparkling screwball comedy as a young lady determined to shake up polite society! Ginger plays Mary Grey cheerful but unemployed. Wandering in central park she meets and befriends Alfred Borden (comedy legend Walter Connolly - It Happened One Night Nothing Sacred). Alfred's a millionaire but money can't buy him happiness - his family all ignore him. Wanting to spice things up he hires Mary to pose as his mistress but even he isn't prepared for the hilarious consequences that will ensue from the offer!

• Fred Astaire - Swing Time/Top Hat/You'll Never Get Rich/You Were Never Lovelier | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the greatest music and dance stars in the history of motion pictures Fred rose from a fairly inauspicious start where a studio exec remarked: Can't sing. Can't act. Slightly balding. Can dance a little. Well his career and achievements speak for themselves. A remarkable talent this box set features 4 of his most-loved films. Swing Time (Dir. George Stevens 1936): Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in arguably their finest film together; packed with exhilarating dance routines and a marvellous score this is an indispensable musical classic! Swing Time is full of magical moments including a complex and delightful routine to 'Pick Yourself Up' a luminous turn to 'Waltz In Swing Time' and Astaire's breathtaking solo to 'Bojangles Of Harlem'. Top Hat (Dir. Mark Sandrich 1935): Following a case of mistaken identity dancer Jerry (Astaire) follows Dale (Rogers) the girl of his dreams to Europe and tries to win her heart through song and dance routines. This most lavish of musicals from Hollywood's golden era features lyrics and music by Irving Berlin. You'll Never Get Rich (Dir. Sidney Lanfield 1941): After his wife discovers a telltale diamond bracelet impresario Martin Cortland tries to show he's not chasing after showgirl Sheila Winthrop. Choreographer Robert Curtis gets caught in the middle of the boss's scheme. Army conscription offers Robert the perfect escape from his troubles - or does it? You Were Never Lovelier (Dir. William A. Seiter 1942): In this lavish Hollywood musical the headstrong daughter (Hayworth) of a powerful Argentine hotelier has to contend with her father's attempts to get her to marry...

• Top Hat/Shall We Dance | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Top Hat (1935): Following a case of mistaken identity dancer Jerry (Astaire) follows Dale (Rogers) the girl of his dreams to Europe and tries to win her heart through song and dance routines... This most lavish of musicals from Hollywood's golden era features lyrics and music by Irving Berlin. Shall We Dance (1937): After their roaring success in 'Top Hat' and 'Swing Time' 'Shall We Dance' is another classic Rogers/Astaire partnership. With the superbly exhilarating dance to 'They Can't Take That Away From Me' and 'Change Partners' the film also features one of the best known and fondly remembered dance routines ever performed by in 'Let's Call the Whole Thing Off' all on roller-skate!

• I'll Be Seeing You | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Oscar winner Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten top a stellar cast in this tender wartime love story about two troubled strangers who meet by chance and try to crowd a lifetime of love and laughter into eight days. After serving half of a prison sentence for accidental manslaughter Mary Marshall (Rogers) is allowed a holiday furlough to visit her family. Keeping her history a secret she falls in love with a kindhearted G.I. (Cotten) who's struggling to overcome shell shock. Both long for a normal life. But can they have it if he learns the truth about her?

• Tight Spot (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2022) from £8.56   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Screen legends Ginger Rogers (Swing Time), Edward G Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking) and Brian Keith (5 Against the House) team up for this tense film noir drama. US attorney Lloyd Hallet offers gangster's moll Sherry Conley a deal she will walk free if she testifies in the trial of notorious mobster Benjamin Costain. With Conley hiding out in a hotel, Lieutenant Striker seeks to protect her from Costain's men... but Striker isn't all he appears to be. Loosely based on the real-life case of Virginia Hill, girlfriend of Bugsy Siegel, with a screenplay by William Bowers (Support Your Local Sheriff) and directed by noir specialist Phil Karlson (Scandal Sheet), Tight Spot expertly blends action, romance, and drama. Product Features High Definition presentation Original mono audio Audio commentary with writer and film historian Nora Fiore (2021) The Senate Crime Investigations (1951, 62 mins): extracts from unedited telerecordings of the US senate committee's hearings into organised crime, originally compiled by the British Film Institute and presented in four parts, including footage of Virginia Hill, who partly inspired Tight Spot Idiots Deluxe (1945, 18 mins): courtroom comedy short starring the Three Stooges and featuring an isolated hideaway beset by a deadly intruder Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Magnificent Doll | Blu Ray | (19/02/2018) from £13.06   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following her Best Actress Oscar win in 1940 for Kitty Foyle, Ginger Rogers was able to spend the next decade and beyond balancing dramatic roles with the lighter musical and comedy performances for which she had become known. The RKO films with Fred Astaire behind her, Rogers found herself in a position where she could appear in Tender Comrade, a black-and-white film about wives living on the home front, one year, and lavish Technicolor musical Lady in the Dark, the next. In 1946, she was cast by Frank Borzage (7th Heaven, Street Angel) as one of America's most beloved First Ladies, Dolley Payne Madison, in Magnificent Doll. Written by Irving Stone, whose popular biographical novels would inspire such films as Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life and Carol Reed's The Agony and Ecstasy, Magnificent Doll traces Madison's journey to the White House from her youth in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War to the famed episode in which, during the Battle of Bladensburg, she refused the leave her exalted residence without a portrait of George Washington. In between she is wooed by two great men of American politics, Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and his colleague, James Madison (Burgess Meredith). Lavishly designed, Magnificent Doll boasts cinematography by five-time Academy Award nominee Joseph A. Valentine (Shadow of a Doubt), striking outfits by legendary costume designers Travis Banton (best known for his work on a number of Josef von Sternberg's pictures with Marlene Dietrich) and Vera West (whose credits include Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula and other classic Universal horror pictures), and hats by the celebrated milliner and fashion designer Lilly Daché. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition (Blu-ray) presentation Original mono audio (uncompressed LPCM) Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Brand new audio commentary by writers and film historians David Del Valle and Sloan De Forest Brand new visual essay by film critic and novelist Farran Nehme on the dramatic roles of Ginger Rogers Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jennifer Dionisio FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Nathalie Morris

• Beautiful Stranger | DVD | (06/05/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hollywood icon Ginger Rogers makes her British film debut in this rarely-seen crime drama from the early 1950s. Directed by David Miller then riding high with his American noir classic Sudden Fear! and co-starring Herbert Lom and a young Stanley Baker, Beautiful Stranger is presented here as a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Johnny Victor, a gorgeous ex-actress, lives in luxury on the French Riviera courtesy of Louis Galt a wealthy businessman with global interests. But Louis' fortune is built on crime and his possessive mania brings about a train of violence from which death is the only certain outcome... Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Kitty Foyle | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms of "Fred Astaire's partner." Others considered her a delightful comedienne, but no great shakes as a dramatic actress. Thus it was both a personal and professional triumph when Ms. Rogers walked home with an Oscar for her performance in Kitty Foyle. Based on Christopher Morley's Story of an American Girl, the film, told in flashback, relates the progress of working-girl Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers) as she pursues her Cinderella dreams.

• Bachelor Mother | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This sparkling comedy was Oscar nominated. Polly (Ginger Rogers) a clerk at Merlin's Department Store is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a young child. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct David Merlin (David Niven) becomes determined to keep the single woman and 'her' baby together in this wonderful comedy of errors.

• The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The great Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in this fascinating biopic as the greatest ballroom dancing team of the first half of the 20th Century: Vernon and Irene Castle. This phenomenal dancing pair swept the world with their mastery of dancing and quickly became celebrities before World War I brought their fame to an end.

• Tight Spot | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sherry Conley a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background is taken from prison to a hotel where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was murdered before he made it to the stand and why should she stick her neck out? At the hotel several attempts are made on her life and she falls for Vince the policemen guarding her...

• Shriek In The Night | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Reporter Ted Rand (Lyle Talbot) arrives to investigate the mysterious death of a millionaire only to find his chief rival Pat Morgan (Ginger Rogers) already on the scene. Three Subsequent murders follow and the police and newspapers alike are unable to uncover the killer in their midst. When Morgan receives a threatening message the manhunt is redoubled taking the police and Rand on a frenzied race to save Pat's life and root out the murderer.

• Black Widow | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bigshot Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) meets Nancy (Peggy Ann Garner) at a glamorous show business party. Nancy is an ambitious young writer - and Peter offers her the use of his apartment while his wife Iris (Gene Tierney) is out of town. Iris returns to find a dead body in the apartment and her husband the prime suspect. With Detective Lt. Bruce (George Raft) hot on his trail and his celebrity neighbours (Ginger Rogers and Reginald Gardiner) spreading poisonous rumours, Peter must prove his innocence - by uncovering the real murderer...

• 3 Classics Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 4 - A Farewell To Arms / The Groom Wore Spurs | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Farewell To Arms: Ernest Hemingway's tragic wartime romance comes to vivid life in this classic 1932 film starring Oscar winners Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The cataclysm of WW1 sets the stage for an impassioned story of star-crossed love between a daring American ambulance driver (Cooper) and an English nurse (Hayes) in an army hospital. The tumult of war conspires to push the pair together and then wrench them apart in what becomes an ultimate test of love. Boasting beautif

• Fred Astaire Collection | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £26.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: 1 Easter Parade: When his long-time dance partner abandons him for the Ziegfeld Follies Don Hewes decides to show who's who what's what by choosing any girl out of a chorus line and transforming her into a star. So he makes his choice and takes his chances. Of course since Fred Astaire portrays Don and Judy Garland plays the chorine we know we're in for an entertainment sure thing. 2. Broadway Melody Of 1940: The class of the Broadway Melody series with the burnished talents of Astaire and Murphy and the timeless tunes of Cole Porter. The plot never the point of these exercises pits two dancers in a friendly rivalry for the attentions of Powell. This was the only screen appearance together of Astaire and Powell and it makes you wish for more. 3. Finian's Rainbow: Based on a Broadway show from the late 40's. Astaire plays an Irishman who's moved to a small southern town. His plan is to bury a leprechaun's pot of gold that he's brought with him - so that it will grow faster. But his plans go awry when his daughter makes the wrong wish while Astaire stands over the magical pot... 4. The Barkleys Of Broadway: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers whose last joint project had been made 10 years before come together one final time for this film. The magical pair play performers Josh and Dinah Barkley whose act - and marriage - break up when Dinah decides to become a serious actress. 5. The Band Wagon: Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter down and out in Hollywood decides to try his luck on the Broadway stage. Unfortunately the simple hoofer discovers that a pretentious director has control of the project and that instead of good humor happy songs and a tapping chorus line there'll be lengthy speeches heavy drama and lots of deep soul-searching. Even worse Tony's expected to dance with a classical ballerina! Thanks to the massive egos of everyone involved the play to no one's surprise lays an egg. But now Tony takes charge and he's out to prove the show must go on - his way!

• Monkey Business | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £23.81   |  Saving you £-10.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After a chimpanzee gets loose in a pharmaceutical lab and randomly concocts a youth-restoring drug staid scientist Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant) unknowingly samples the potion and acquires the energy and tempement of a college student!