Prodded by her prototypical "stage mother" Lela, Ginger Rogers made her performing debut as a dancer at the age of 14 and became a regular on the vaudeville circuit after winning a statewide Charleston contest in Texas. She achieved her breakthrough in 1929-30 when she was prominently cast as second lead in the Broadway musical, "Top Speed" (1929, singing "Hot and Bothered") and then as female…
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