November 1951 - gorgeous Ginger Rogers leaves Hollywood and returns to Broadway

For me Ginger Rogers is in the top most beautiful Hollywood actresses alongside Barbara Eden, Lucille Ball, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren.

At the end of 1951, after 21 years she decides to leave Hollywood and return to Broadway. 

Not one critic had a good word to say for the play Love and Let Love, but they all declared that Ginger Rogers, returning to Broadway after 21 years in Hollywood, looked terrific in everything she wore. In pink, tangerine or white slashed with scarlet, in furs or feathers, low-necked or high-necked, Ginger brough to the stage a female opulence unequaled since Florenz Ziegfeld rigged up his stars to look like goddesses dunked in diamonds. Ginger's warmest critical welcome came from the Time's Brooks Stkinson, who said, "She is beautiful and alive and has a sunny sense of humor...No one that gorgeous can be entirely overwhelmed by a playwright's dullness." 

Tangerine suit, with a long baby leopard skin stole flung over the shouldersm creates a more sophisticated impression. Ginger waxes rhapsodic about this light soft fur, says it's "breathy, delicious."

photos and documentation: LIFE Magazine (US) | Zetu Harrys collection