gregorypecks:

On her hand and footprint ceremony - September 5, 1939 - Ginger Rogers remembered: “I couldn’t have been more thrilled. I had just returned from a much-needed vacation in Hawaii about 3 weeks before, & was finishing up some retakes at the studio. I thought about how my prints would look in cement - for all time. And wanted them to be smaller if I could manage it! I could do nothing about the size of my hands, but my footprints - those I could make smaller. My shoe size was about 5 and a half & my mother Lela had a smaller shoe size than I: 4 and a half. So, I borrowed a pair of my mother’s shoes!”