On this day in history, July 16, 1911, American actress and dancer Ginger Rogers is born

One of my all time favorites, SFC (Join to see)! In the movie, Swing Time, with Fred Astaire, Ginger showed she was a real trooper. This from Wikipedia about their second to last dance number:
"'Never Gonna Dance': After Astaire sings Fields' memorable closing line: 'la belle, la perfectly swell romance' of Kern's haunting ballad, they begin the acknowledgement phase of the dance, replete with a poignant nostalgia for their now-doomed affair, where music changes to 'The Way You Look Tonight' and they dance slowly in a manner reminiscent of the opening part of 'Let's Face The Music And Dance' from Follow the Fleet (1936). At the end of this episode, Astaire adopts a crestfallen, helpless pose. They now begin the denial phase, and again the music changes and speeds up, this time to the 'Waltz In Swing Time' while the dancers separate to twirl their way up their respective staircases, escaping to the platform at the top of the Silver Sandal Set – an elaborate Art Deco-influenced Hollywood Moderne creation of Carroll Clark and John Harkrider. Here the music switches again to a frantic, fast-paced, recapitulation of 'Never Gonna Dance' as the pair dance a last, desperate, and virtuosic routine before Ginger flees and Astaire repeats his pose of dejection, in a final acceptance of the affair's end.

This final routine was shot 47 times in one day before Astaire was satisfied, with Rogers' feet left bruised and bleeding by the time they finished."
PV2 Scott M.