Ginger Rogers on Dick Cavett, talking about Mame.

OP, you should write a letter to the station in protest!

Ginger was a right wing cunt.

Did Ginge ever comment on LucyMAME? (Which was still several years after the time of this interview.)

The conversation at the end with Stanley Kauffman was great too.

My god how the level of talk shows has fallen. It's deppresing.

I saw Ginger in Palm Springs once, circa 1992, when she was in a wheelchair pushed by an assistant or nurse. I was tempted to go up and ask if I could take her for a spin around the mall's food court.

Frey had great hair and a good sense of humor.

Leonard Frey was born before his time. He would've been a huge star today.

R7, he certainly had the talent and charisma, However there will always be talented and charismatic actors who never got their due break, now and then, so who knows.

Ginger always demanded that she get equal respect for the astaire/rogers musicals because she had to dance with Fred, and backwards and in heels as was said. But since Fred was the choreographer i think she wanted more respect than she deserved. she was a competent dancer but others that Fred partnered with later were better.

[quote] But since Fred was the choreographer

Fuck you, R9. Backwards and in heels.

Who was that old hissing eldergay at the end, whining about the dregs of various movies?

He sounds like a caftan flapper from the DL circa today.

From Wikipedia: Astaire called Pan his "idea man," and while he generally choreographed his own routines, he greatly valued the assistance of Pan not just as a critic, but also as a rehearsal partner for the purposes of fine-tuning a routine.

R11 That was Stanley Kauffman, a huge film/theater critic back in the day. And I highly doubt he was an eldergay.

Fred could never do this or the extreme close-up

I always thought Cavett was quite a "hunk." I doubt his type of show would last in today's viewing environment. I faithfully watched Cavett, and David Susskind. Those were the days of enjoyable viewing.

Dick had a charm. At least enough to get Janis Joplin in bed a few times. Sad they never became a couple, the 2 together would have been a hoot.

Kauffmann was straight. He actually wrote a semi-notorious essay about gay playwrights for the "New York Times" in 1966, "Homosexual Drama and Its Disguises".

For some context, Rogers' career was at low ebb when David Merrick was able to hire her on the cheap to be Channing's first replacement on Broadway when Channing took Hello, Dolly! out on the second national tour two years into the show's Broadway run. Later, Rogers became the first musical Mame in London when she starred in that country's first production of that musical.

The stories of her cheapness and bad treatment of her costars and crew in both productions were widespread but it's 1:00 am and I'm too lazy to google them.

And as someone mentioned above, she was an extreme right wing cunt as was her overbearing stage mother.

^ And just trivia I guess but there were rumors that Ginger recorded an original cast recording of that London production of Mame but it was never released and the tapes seem to have disappeared.

Sorry about missing link. Ginger singing We're in the Money in Pig Latin with an extreme close-up.