78 Ginger Rogers Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Top Hat is a musical romantic film which tells the story of Jerry Travers, a tap dancer who comes to London to star in a show that is being produced by Horace Hardwick. He soon meets the model Dale Tremont, and tries to impress her to win her affection.

An aspiring dancer travels to New York to prove his mettle to his fiancée. However, as luck would have it, he falls for his dancing partner.

Gold Diggers of 1933 is musical romantic comedy film which revolves around three aspiring actresses, who gets involved with a playboy producer, who has everything that he needs for a show, except the money. Brad Roberts, the girls’ neighbor, decides to help them out with the money. However, they get suspicious because he refuses to appear in the show, despite his talents.

Terry Randall is a woman from a very rich and influential family, who decides to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre on her own merit, without taking any help from her family. She moves into the theatrical boarding house, and is disappointed to see the kind of life the aspirants live.  

Polly is an unemployed woman who discovers an abandoned baby, and accepts an offer to take care of the child in exchange for a job at Merlin’s Department Store. However, her un-motherly conduct infuriates David Merlin.

Susan Applegate is a working woman in New York, who is desperate to go to her home in Iowa. However, problem is that she lacks the railway fare. Therefore, she disguises herself as a child so that she can get the ticket at a cheaper rate. She ends up in the compartment of an army Major named Philip. Believing that she is a frightened child, he decides to let her stay in his compartment until they reach his stop. Things get complicated and hilarious when his fiancée Pamela boards the train, and upon seeing Susan, she accuses Philip of having an affair.

Mimi is a married woman who seeks a divorce from Cyril, her absentee husband. Her aunt encourages her to set up a fake date, so that she can get caught in an ‘adulterous relationship’, which would make it easier for her to get a divorce.

Pete, a ballet star, and Linda, a showgirl, decide to fake a marriage for publicity. However, over time, they find themselves attracted to one another.

John Kent is a former football star at Harvard, who goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines, and Huck’s dance band named 'The Wabash Indianians'. However, the band is not allowed to perform, when the one who booked them finds out that they are not Indians, but merely from Indiana. Joe decides to pay a visit to his aunt, who owns a fashion house run by Stephanie, her assistant. There, he meets a singer Scharwenka, who tries to get the band a job.

Seaman Baker and Sherry used to be dance partners, but they got separated when Baker had to enlist in the Navy. Now Sherry is working in a ballroom in San Francisco. When Baker visits the ballroom after a long time, he tries to rekindle his relationship with her. Meanwhile, his friend Bilge finds himself attracted to Sherry’s sister Connie. Problems arise between them because Connie wants to get married, but Bilge is not ready to settle down.

During a visit to Manhattan, botany professor Peter Morgan Jr. and nightclub singer Francey fall in love at first sight and get married the next day. Returning home, he is unsure about how to break the news to his authoritarian, conservative father, who, he knows wouldn’t approve. The newlyweds barely get any time together and their secret leads to many humorous situations.

Stephen proposes to Amanda, but she is unable to make a decision. Therefore, he decides to take her to his friend Tony, who is his psychiatrist. Things get complicated when Tony and Amanda find themselves attracted to one another. 

Monkey Business is a comedy film which tells the story of a scientist who is able to develop the elixir of life, which can help adults become young once again. Things get hilarious when he and his wife actually drink it.  

Alfred is a millionaire who feels neglected by his wife and his children. Therefore, he decides to hire an unemployed girl named Mary to pose as his mistress. Things however get complicated when Alfred’s son Tim falls for her.

Dreamboat is a 1952 American comedy film which tells the story of a college professor named Thornton Sayre, who is also a former actor. His life gets disrupted when his former co-star Gloria Marlowe, starts to air his old films on television. To put an end to this, he sets out with his daughter to stop it. 

The setting of this movie, based on the 1932 classic Grand Hotel, is the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York and the focus is on a group of guest who are staying there during a weekend. Among them are a lone actress and a war correspondent who meet just by chance, a soldier awaiting to undergo a critical surgery and a cub reporter trying to expose a dubious deal.

Due to his flirtatious behavior, band leader Roger Bond’s group keeps getting fired again and again. Things take a turn when he falls for a Brazilian beauty named Belinha, but problem is that she is engaged to another man. Despite this, he tries to make a move, but Belinha plays hard to get. She is also unable to decide between Roger and Julio, her fiancé.

Clay Dalzell is a lawyer and detective in New York, who is approached by his old friend Tim Winthrop to find his former lover Alice, who had disappeared a year ago, without any trace. While attending a stage show, Clay recognizes a masked actress to be Alice, but when he calls out her name, she vanishes during the middle of the performance. When it seems that reporter Tommy Tennant knows something about her, he is shot dead before he could reveal anything to Clay.   

Broadway star Beatrice Page, who is past her prime, chooses a script about a mother and a teenage daughter, by promising playwright Stanley Krown. But she wants him to rewrite the young girl’s role more befitting her age. When Stanley shows reluctance, she gets her producer ex-husband to convince Stanley. But later, she accepts that she is more suitable for mother’s role. 

Upon seeing his neighbor Jean on the street in Greenwich Village, David Grant wishes her good luck. Although she doesn’t know him, she decides to ask him to become a partner in an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. David agrees on the condition that she goes on a world tour with him, if they win the prize. Despite the objections of her fiancé Fred, she agrees. Jean is however unaware of the fact that David is actually a famous painter, who is living under a different identity, after serving three years in jail.

When his wife becomes more successful than him, a journalist gets quite jealous and also finds himself addicted to alcohol.

A rich railroad tycoon is bored with his marriage, since his wife is too busy with parties and has no time for him. Therefore, he starts seeing a showgirl instead. However, the girl’s boyfriend finds out and uses this opportunity to blackmail him. 

Honor among Lovers is a romantic drama film which tells the story of Julia, a personal secretary working for Jerry Stafford, a Wall Street trader. She manages nearly everything for her boss.  Jerry starts falling for her, but she falls for another man named Philip, and therefore Jerry fires her from her job.

Radio celebrity Glory Eden is compelled by the sponsors to keep up a vice-free, ‘Purity Girl’ image for their product-marketing. Tired of it, she wants to try out darker side of life. On her press agent’s suggestion, from her fans they select Kentuckian Jim Davey as her ‘Professional Sweetheart.’ But they never expect the fake fiancé to grow into her real love.

Liza Elliot is the editor of a successful magazine, but she is unable to find the man of her dreams. She also suffers from continuous daydreams and headaches, and therefore decides to seek help from a psychiatrist to find out why.  

Bored with her life, office girl Teddy goes off to a mountain camp for rest and solitude. On the way, she meets Chick, a law student intending to work as a waiter. Shortly, they fall in love and on their last day at the camp, Chick admits that he cannot marry her immediately, but they can become lovers, an idea that infatuates Teddy.   

After completing their graduation, four college graduates relocate to New York City, looking for employment. However, they soon realize that jobs are scarce and finding employment wouldn’t be as easy as they thought. Although they are great friends, their relationships are strained by their romantic entanglements.  

In early 1800s, Dolley Payne returns home to Washington DC after an unhappy marriage. She is wooed by two rising politicians, James Madison and Aaron Burr. The charming lady uses the ardor of her two suitors to influence the Presidential elections and later, as the first lady of the United States, helps save national treasure from the 1812 British attack.

Johnny is an actress who is in love with an international businessman Stanley Baker. However, she learns that he is actually running a crime syndicate, and he is unwilling to leave his wife for her. She therefore gets involved with a potter named Jacques Bergerac.

Follow the Leader is a romantic musical comedy film which tells the story of a waiter, who has a burning desire to become ‘someone of significance’. He soon finds himself becoming the leader of a gang.

This Western comedy film takes us back to the late 1800s. It tells the story of two salesladies who decide to stop selling corsets and head to the West, to sell barbed wire to cowboys in Texas. However, they face opposition from big ranchers as they fear that the cattle may be hurt by the steel wires. 

Just before his marriage to Myra Hagerman, Alan Coles learns that one of his neurotic patients Grant, had once dated her, as well as Arthur, the husband of another one of his patients.  Things get complicated when they tell Alan that they still want to see her.

A master thief is on the lookout for an ancient legendary buried treasure. He is soon aided in his mission by Ginger Rogers, a woman who owns a bordello.  

This documentary film provides us a tour of several places in Hollywood, including a movie studio, a famous shopping centre, as well as the Santa Anita racetrack.