Ginger Rogers the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable". According to Astaire, when they were first teamed together in "Flying Down to Rio", "Ginger had never danced with a partner before. She faked it an awful lot. She couldn't tap and she couldn't do this and that ... but Ginger had style and talent and improved as she went along. She got so that after a while everyone else who danced with me looked wrong." Author Dick Richards, in his
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