Editing Ginger Rogers (section)

=== 1933–1939: Success in non-musicals ===
[[File: Ginger Rogers Argentinean Magazine AD 2.jpg|thumb|Rogers in 1937]]

Both before and immediately after her dancing and acting partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Rogers starred in a number of successful nonmusical films. ''[[Stage Door]]'' (1937) demonstrated her dramatic capacity, as the loquacious yet vulnerable girl next door and tough-minded theatrical hopeful, opposite [[Katharine Hepburn]]. Successful comedies included ''[[Vivacious Lady]]'' (1938) with [[James Stewart]], ''[[Fifth Avenue Girl]]'' (1939), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family, and ''[[Bachelor Mother]]'' (1939), with [[David Niven]], in which she played a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

In 1934, Rogers sued [[Sylvia of Hollywood]] for $100K for defamation. The fitness guru and radio personality had claimed that Rogers was on her radio show when, in fact, she was not.<ref>Interview Suit Begun By Actress: Screen Player Asks Damages, ''Los Angeles Times'', March 24, 1934.</ref>

On March 5, 1939, Rogers starred in "Single Party Going East", an episode of ''[[Silver Theater (radio program)|Silver Theater]]'' on [[CBS]] radio.<ref>{{cite news| title=Virovai Is Guest| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2108716/st_ginger_rogers/| newspaper=The Nebraska State Journal| date=March 5, 1939| page=36| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=March 31, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>