Smartest Girl in Town "ketchup blood" on his face and then embraces him. RKO Pictures was also the studio which produced the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers series of films, thus "Smartest Girl's" comic supporting players, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes, all had prominent roles in the previous year's Astaire-Rogers hit, "Top Hat". Furthermore, two months before "Smartest Girl's" release, Blore and Broderick were seen in the dancing duo's very successful 1936 effort, "Swing Time" and, the previous year, had been in another RKO musical comedy, "To Beat the Band". As for Blore and Rhodes, both had earlier appeared in the first Astaire-Rogers vehicle,
Johnny Ginger pioneer Detroit television for children in the fifties and sixties. "The Johnny Ginger Show" was cancelled in 1968. Ginger went on to host "Captain Detroit" for WKBD-TV. Johnny left Detroit for Hollywood and appeared on an episode of "The Rifleman". Johnny Ginger Galen Grindle (born June 16, 1934), better known as Johnny Ginger, was a pioneer of Detroit television. Grindle was born in Toledo, Ohio. His parents, Ray and Edna, were a Vaudeville family act performing at the Paramount Theater in Toledo. His brother, Kenny, was a tap dancer in the family act. One day they brought little Johnny up