Editing Ginger Rogers (section)

== Personal life ==
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[[File:Film star Ginger Rogers and her husband 1950s.jpg|thumb|Rogers with [[Jacques Bergerac]] in the 1950s]]
Rogers, an only child, maintained a close relationship with her mother, Lela Rogers, throughout her life. Lela, a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, and movie producer, was one of the first women to enlist in the [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]], was a founder of the successful "Hollywood Playhouse" for aspiring actors and actresses on the RKO set, and a founder of the [[Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Kendall| first=Elizabeth| title=The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s| year=2002| publisher=Cooper Square Press| isbn=0-8154-1199-5| page=97}}</ref> Rogers was a lifelong member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] and campaigned for [[Thomas Dewey]] in the [[1944 United States presidential election|1944 presidential election]], [[Barry Goldwater]] in the [[1964 United States presidential election|1964 presidential election]] and [[Ronald Reagan]] in the [[1966 California gubernatorial election]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfHXAAAAQBAJ&q=ginger%20rogers | title=When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics| isbn=9781107650282| last1=Critchlow| first1=Donald T.| date=2013|pages=191| publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfHXAAAAQBAJ&q=wallace%20beery | title=When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics| isbn=9781107650282| last1=Critchlow| first1=Donald T.| date=2013-10-21| publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>American Flint - Volume 54, 1964</ref> She was a strong opponent of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], speaking out against both him and his New Deal proposals. She was a member of the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite web |title= Dazzling Daughters|url=https://www.dar.org/archives/daughters-distinction}}</ref>

Rogers and her mother had a very close professional relationship. Lela Rogers was credited with pivotal contributions to her daughter's early successes in New York City and in Hollywood, and gave her much assistance in contract negotiations with RKO. She also wrote a children's mystery book with her daughter as the central character.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://leonardmaltin.com/flashback-meeting-ginger-rogers/|title=Flashback: Meeting Ginger Rogers| last=Friedman| first=Drew| date=2017-05-03| website=Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy| language=en-US| access-date=2019-01-03}}</ref>

=== Marriages ===
Rogers married and divorced five times. She did not have children.

On March 29, 1929, Rogers married for the first time at age 17 to her dancing partner [[Jack Pepper]] (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper). They divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. Rogers dated [[Mervyn LeRoy]] in 1932, but they ended the relationship and remained friends until his death in 1987. In 1934, she married actor [[Lew Ayres]] (1908–96). They divorced six years later in 1940. In 1943, Rogers married her third husband, [[Jack Briggs (actor)|Jack Briggs]], who was a U.S. Marine, before divorcing in 1950. In 1953, she married [[Jacques Bergerac]], a French actor 16 years her junior, whom she met on a trip to Paris. A lawyer in France, he came to Hollywood with her and became an actor. They divorced in 1957. Her fifth and final husband was director and producer [[William Marshall (bandleader)|William Marshall]]. They married in 1961 and divorced in 1970, after his bouts with alcohol and the financial collapse of their joint film production company in Jamaica.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Faris |first=Jocelyn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iujEEAAAQBAJ |title=Ginger Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography |date=1994-03-14 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-36976-6 |language=en}}</ref>[[File:Ginger Rogers 1993.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Rogers in 1993]]

=== Friendships ===
Rogers was lifelong friends with actresses [[Lucille Ball]] and [[Bette Davis]]. She appeared with Ball in an episode of ''[[Here's Lucy]]'' on November 22, 1971, in which Rogers danced the [[Charleston (dance)|Charleston]] for the first time in many years. Rogers starred in one of the earliest films co-directed and co-scripted by a woman, [[Wanda Tuchock]]'s ''Finishing School'' (1934). Rogers maintained a close friendship with her cousin, writer/socialite [[Phyllis Fraser]], the wife of [[Random House]] publisher [[Bennett Cerf]]. Rita Hayworth's maternal uncle, [[Vinton Hayworth]], was married to Rogers's maternal aunt, Jean Owens.

=== Religion ===
Rogers was raised a Christian Scientist and remained a lifelong adherent. [[Christian Science]] was a topic she discussed at length in her autobiography.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ginger/ginger-article4.htm| title=From the Archives: Final step: Ginger Rogers, 1911-1995| first=Matt| last=Zoller| website=Reel Classics}}</ref> Rogers's mother died in 1977. She remained at the 4-Rs (Rogers' Rogue River Ranch) until 1990. When the property was sold, Rogers moved to nearby Medford, Oregon.

=== Interests ===
Rogers was a talented tennis player, and entered the 1950 [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]]. However, she and [[Frank Shields]] were knocked out of the mixed doubles competition in the first round.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/280948778/ |title=Ginger Rogers, Shields Ousted |work=[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |date=August 31, 1950 |page=27 |url-access=subscription |via=[[newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

===Notable final appearances===
The city of [[Independence, Missouri]] designated the birthplace of Ginger Rogers a Historic Landmark property in 1994. That July 16, Ginger and her secretary, Roberta Olden, appeared at there a Ginger Rogers' Day celebration presented by the city, where plaque was affixed and Rogers signed over 2,000 autographs, one of her last public appearances.

The home was purchased in 2016 by Three Trails Cottages, which restored, then transformed it into a museum dedicated to Ginger Rogers and her mother Lela. Open seasonally until 2019, it contained memorabilia, magazines, movie posters, and many items from the ranch the pair owned, and hosted numerous events.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.examiner.net/news/20190810/ginger-rogers-home-in-independence-set-to-close|title=Ginger Rogers home in Independence set to close|last=Genet|first=Mike|website=The Examiner of East Jackson County|language=en|date=August 10, 2019|access-date=2020-01-20|archive-date=November 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129053439/https://www.examiner.net/news/20190810/ginger-rogers-home-in-independence-set-to-close|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rogers made her last public appearance on March 18, 1995, when she received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award. For many years, Rogers regularly supported, and held in-person presentations, at the [[Craterian Theater]], in Medford, where she had performed in 1926 as a vaudevillian. The theater was comprehensively restored in 1997 and posthumously renamed in her honor as the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}