Today was the SOHS Benefit, "Glitz and Glamour on a Sunday Afternoon", the Fashion Show of Ginger Rogers' gowns. Reviews are already coming in from this fabulous event. More will be posted as they're found - so check back often!
KTVL - Glitz and Glamour in the Rogue Valley
Jacksonville Review - Ginger Rogers' Fashion Show a Hit!
KDVR - Happy Birthday Ginger Rogers!
Medford Mail Tribune - Ginger Rogers' legacy remembered in style!
Mail Tribune Blog - Ginger Rogers' life in clothes
Today was an absolute Blast! Leave us a comment with your own review of the day!
Showing posts with label Ginger Rogers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ginger Rogers. Show all posts
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Get Your Ginger Rogers Tickets!
Glitz & Glamour on a Sunday Afternoon
a Fashion Show of Ginger Rogers' Gowns
May 1, 2011 - 2pm
Tickets are selling out!
Visit www.sohs.org to order your tickets and reserve table space soon!
Don't wait til the last minute - only 30 tickets still available.
Tickets are $50
($32 is tax deductible)
a Fashion Show of Ginger Rogers' Gowns
May 1, 2011 - 2pm
Tickets are selling out!
Visit www.sohs.org to order your tickets and reserve table space soon!
Don't wait til the last minute - only 30 tickets still available.
Tickets are $50
($32 is tax deductible)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Broadway and Hollywood Dancing Star Calls Oregon Home
In 1969, Ginger Rogers sold her Beverly Hills home and moved to a 1,000-acre Rogue River ranch near Shady Cove, Oregon.
Rogers and her mother, Lela, had purchased the ranch in 1945, where they raised purebred cows and built a dairy. Some Guernsey cattle in the Rogue Valley still carry the Rogers name on their breeding records. She sold the ranch and moved to Medford in 1990.
Rogers told a reporter in 1982 that she voted and paid taxes in Oregon. "I consider myself an Oregonian," she said.
Born Virginia Katherine McMath on July 16, 1911, in Independence, Missouri, she took her step father's last name, Rogers, as her own. She was dancing publicly at age 10 and began touring when she was 14, including a performance at age 15 at the Craterian Theater in Medford. She was already a Broadway and Hollywood star when she and Fred Astaire began making 10 dance-filled pictures together.
Sixty-seven years after her first Medford performance, Rogers returned for a benefit concert in 1993 at what is now known as the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.
Rogers died at 83 at her winter home at Rancho Mirage, California.
Written by Kernan Turner for JPR's radio series, As It Was.
Source:
Internet: Ryder, Stephen. Craterian Ginger Rogers Theatre http://www.craterian.org/the-facility/history/; Ginger Rogers Official Site http://www.gingerrogers.com/about/bio.html
Rogers and her mother, Lela, had purchased the ranch in 1945, where they raised purebred cows and built a dairy. Some Guernsey cattle in the Rogue Valley still carry the Rogers name on their breeding records. She sold the ranch and moved to Medford in 1990.
Rogers told a reporter in 1982 that she voted and paid taxes in Oregon. "I consider myself an Oregonian," she said.
Born Virginia Katherine McMath on July 16, 1911, in Independence, Missouri, she took her step father's last name, Rogers, as her own. She was dancing publicly at age 10 and began touring when she was 14, including a performance at age 15 at the Craterian Theater in Medford. She was already a Broadway and Hollywood star when she and Fred Astaire began making 10 dance-filled pictures together.
Sixty-seven years after her first Medford performance, Rogers returned for a benefit concert in 1993 at what is now known as the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.
Rogers died at 83 at her winter home at Rancho Mirage, California.
Written by Kernan Turner for JPR's radio series, As It Was.
Source:
Internet: Ryder, Stephen. Craterian Ginger Rogers Theatre http://www.craterian.org/the-facility/history/; Ginger Rogers Official Site http://www.gingerrogers.com/about/bio.html
Friday, March 11, 2011
Dance in Ginger Rogers Shoes!
To get you in the mood for our May 1 Ginger Rogers Fashion Show, we are auctioning a pair of her shoes on ebay!
Check it out here!
See the latest info on the fashion show.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Glitz and Glamour on a Sunday Afternoon!
Ready to purchase your tickets for the Ginger Rogers Fashion Show?
Visit www.sohs.org and reserve yours on-line. Limited seating!
Don't miss this one-time only event.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
2 - 4 pm
Rogue Valley Country Club
More glitz and glamour than you've seen all year!
2 - 4 pm
Rogue Valley Country Club
More glitz and glamour than you've seen all year!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Ginger Rogers Fashion Show!
SOHS will be hosting a fashion show of glamorous dresses worn by our very own Hollywood star, Ginger Rogers. While not originally from the Rogue Valley, Ginger purchased a 1000 acre ranch along the Rogue River in the early 1940s and retired to the Rogers Rogue River Ranch in 1969 after she sold her Beverly Hills home.
Twenty-two dresses from her estate will be featured in a fashion show to be held on Sunday, May 1 at the Rogue Valley Country Club. The show will be a fundraiser for SOHS.
Want to join in the fun? Come to an informational planning meeting this Thursday, January 27 at 4 pm at the History Center (106 N. Central Avenue in Medford). We are looking for volunteers to help plan and coordinate this fun event!
For more information, call Allison at (541) 494-0273.
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