Ginger Rogers George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Fred Astaire was hired to help the dancers with their choreography. Her appearance in "Girl Crazy" made her an overnight star at the age of 19. Rogers' first movie roles were in a trio of short films made in 1929—"Night in the Dormitory", "A Day of a Man of Affairs", and "Campus Sweethearts". In 1930, she was signed by Paramount Pictures to a seven-year contract. Rogers soon got herself out of the Paramount contract—under which she had made five feature films at Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens—and moved with her mother to Hollywood. When she
Noble Dancer where he ran fourth to Youth. Remaining in the United States, due to a duplicate name he had to be registered as Noble Dancer II. His training was handled by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Tommy Kelly. Noble Dancer competed and won at racetracks from coast-to-coast in the United States until he suffered a career-ending leg injury on October 17, 1979 while training at Belmont Park. The $8,222 bargain-basement purchase was retired to stud having earned $939,215 of which $856,245 was in North America. As a sire, Noble Dancer met with modest success. Noble Dancer Noble Dancer (1972