Ginger Rogers Unglamorous In "Primrose Path"

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 146, 15 March 1940, Page 14

Ginger Rogers Unglamorous In "Primrose Path"

Q.INGER ROGERS. to whom each new role is “the most interesting I’ve ever done,” really sets a mark to shoot at in her portrayal in "Primrose Path,” now filming at R.K.C). Radio Studios. For in "Primrose Path” Ginger is “deglamourized.” She plays the entire picture without make-up, clad hi wardrobe which cost only £5, and with golden blonde hair changed to a darker hue. As Ellie May. the young illiterate daughter of a sorry family living in Shanty Town, Ginger assumes a role far removed from previous characterizations. She has played chorus girls, a singer with a band ("Flying Down to Rio”), a comedienne with a Russian dialect (“Roberta”), a society girl ("Star of Midnight”), a movie star ("In Person”), an Epst Side toughy (“Ronihnce in Manhattan”), a stenographer ("Having Wonderful Time”), and a cafe singer (“Vivacious Lady”), in addition to her pictures with Fred Astaire. Each of these roles afforded Ginger moments to display her beauty in full bloom. But not in "Primrose Path.” In this film fjie nearest she approaches glamour is when she (lons a two-and-a-half dollar dress, an ill-fitting borrowed dress at that. She wears pigtails, she speaks English the King would banish from the land, she wears no make-uit).