...well, Hi-ya, ever-body!!!!
Hu is back from Atlantic City...well, got back quite a few days ago, but... it appears blogger has had some 'issues'... but appears to be cooking again...
As for a 'Gingery Connection' in Atlantic City, well, I doubted there would be one, but...one 'kinda' happened, at least in a 'glancing' way.
Of course, as we all know, Atlantic City is the home (again) of the Miss America Pageant...and the hotel I stayed in had the address of '1 Miss America Way'...which was pretty cool...even cooler was the display of all the dresses and other 'Miss America' stuff in the lobby (I guess at one time or another contestants stayed there). Well, when I walked into my room, there was a pic on the wall of a float from 1941 with Miss America contestants... and one of the young ladies on there was Miss California (who went on to be Miss America), Rosemary LaPlanche...this isn't the actual pic, but it IS of the young lady in question...
...and yeah, that's what I thought too (The 'float' pic in my room was a bit smaller, but large enough to portray Miss LaPlanche as being QUITE similar to Ginger... enough to make me convey this occurrance to all of y'all, for sure...)
Well, I thought it was cool first of all that they had the 1941 Miss America pic in my room (although it may have been in ALL rooms, who knows), since 1940-1941 was Ginger's 'apex' of popularity... and then I thought how cool it was that this young lady in the pic looked a WHOLE lot like our fair Ginger... but then, after doing a bit more research, it gets even MORE Gingery... soon after Miss LaPlanche was crowned, she went on do USO bond tours, a la Ginger...and well, like a LOT of actresses and other young ladies did at the time....
BUT, here's the "COOL!" "GingerConnection" part... in the same year she 'served' as Miss America, Miss LaPlanche signed with...RKO Pictures!!! She ended up appearing in over fifty films in her career - most were 'small roles' (well, actually there's no such thing as 'small roles', right? ;-) ), and had her own radio show in the late 40s, and then onward to television... pretty cool!!! Here's her IMDb page:
Rosemary LaPlanche
I feel pretty sure she and Ginger crossed paths (she's not mentioned in Ginger's bio, but...) - heck, she could have been Ginger's 'stand-in' for sure! Actually, there are other pics of her out there where she is not as 'Gingery' looking, and one of them actually conjures up Rita Hayworth! Well, heck, here's the
Miss America 'bio' about her...check out the second 'Rita-like' pic of her... ANYWAY, it just goes to show there are ALWAYS GingerConnections out there, if you keep your eyes open!
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As for TCM, hey...not much in October regarding Ginger, but November and December are rocking!!! First off, December's TCM Star of the Month is.... Mr. Fred Astaire! Of course, as a result, all ten of the GandF films will be aired in December (heck, I think 'Barkleys' is on TWICE in Dec...) - but there's also some cool 'spots' where Ginger occurs in the lineup... most notably, late Christmas Eve (and into Christmas Day, actually), "I'll Be Seeing You" is airing, which is tagged as a 'Rob's Pick' for the night...which is pretty awesome... Bachelor Mother also occurs within a week of Christmas, I believe... but just go check out the 'TCM Page' located at the top right of this page... also, on New Year's Eve, the "That's Entertainment!!!" series of films are being shown...Ginger appears in the third (III) installment.
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Finally, as to 'resumption' of Gingerology... still need to get cracking on the TopHat caps... pun most likely intended... but I also want to post some other Gingery topics, so... stay tuned. And of course, the continued 'advancement' of all of the GingerFilm blogs will be taking place as well, and I'll hopefully keep you posted on occurrences on any specific one of them.
Until all of that happens, tho... I'll yak with most of y'all over on FaceBook... otherwise...
Keep It Gingery!!!
Hu
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