Charles Farrell and Ginger Rogers

Charles Farrell and Ginger Rogers filming CHANGE OF HEART (1934).

Ginger Rogers and the movie star trailer

Ginger Rogers and her third husband, Jack Briggs (John Calvin Briggs, 1920-1998). Photo by Edward Cronenweth 

Ginger Rogers solo

Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath, 1911-1995), while filming IT HAD TO BE YOU (1947). Photo by Irving Lippman 

Helen Broderick (1891-1959) by Strauss-Peyton Studio

She made her Broadway début in the 1907 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES, as a dancer; her roles don’t appear in the IBDb listing for the production. In 1910, she married Lester Crawford, her partner in the vaudeville duo of Broderick & Crawford. As vaudeville wound down, she became a solo player and a lead on Broadway, although she made short films with Crawford in 1930 and 1931. She is remembered today for her acerbic turns in the Astaire and Rogers films TOP HAT (1935) and SWING TIME (1936).

Broderick’s son — named, inevitably, [William] Broderick Crawford (1911-1986) — won the Academy Award for best actor for his part as Willie Stark in ALL THE KING’S MEN (1949).