Editing Ginger Rogers (section)

=== 1929–1933: Early film roles ===
[[File:42nd-Street-Merkel-Keeler-Rogers.jpg|thumb|[[Una Merkel]], [[Ruby Keeler]], and Ginger Rogers in ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' (1933)]]
Rogers's 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, [[Paramount Pictures]] signed her to a seven-year contract.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Rogers soon got herself out of the Paramount contract—under which she had made five feature films at [[Kaufman Astoria Studios|Astoria Studios]] in [[Astoria, Queens]]—and moved with her mother to Hollywood. When she got to California, she signed a three-picture deal with [[Pathé Exchange]]. Two of her pictures at Pathé were ''[[Suicide Fleet]]'' (1931) and ''[[Carnival Boat]]'' (1932) in which she played opposite future [[Hopalong Cassidy]] star [[William Boyd (actor)|William Boyd]]. Rogers also made feature films for Warner Bros., Monogram, and Fox in 1932, and was named one of 15 [[WAMPAS Baby Stars]]. She then made a significant breakthrough as Anytime Annie in the [[Warner Bros.]] film ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' (1933). She went on to make a series of films at Warner Bros., most notably in ''[[Gold Diggers of 1933]],'' in which her solo, "We're in the Money", included a memorable verse in [[Pig Latin]]. She then moved to [[RKO Studios]], was put under contract and with Astaire started work on ''[[Flying Down to Rio]]'', a picture starring [[Dolores del Río]] and [[Gene Raymond]]. Rogers and Astaire "stole the show",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Scott S. |date=2023-03-23 |title=Ginger Rogers Worked Smart To Become Top-Paid Performer |url=https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/ginger-rogers-worked-smart-to-become-a-star-of-screen-and-stage/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=[[Investor's Business Daily]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grotell |first=David |date=2011 |editor-last=Epstein |editor-first=Joseph |editor2-last=Levinson |editor2-first=Peter J. |title=The Fine Art of Understatement: Fred Astaire Onscreen and Off |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29777240 |journal=[[Dance Chronicle]] |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=166–174 |doi=10.1080/01472526.2011.549002 |jstor=29777240 |issn=0147-2526}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Flying Down to Rio (1933) poster, Dutch {{!}} Original Film Posters Online {{!}} Collectibles |url=https://www.sothebys.com/buy/e399a0d9-346e-427a-876a-cf84a04fce4a/lots/f691b84e-8cf5-4d41-82af-b326eb69ddb9 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=[[Sotheby's]] |language=en}}</ref> an industry term for outshining the billed stars.