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Title: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Review: This is a true hack job: all the nastiest and most spurious anecdotes and rumors about Ginger Rogers ever dished up anywhere, disguised as a biography. Like many opportunistic entertainment historians, Morley lacks any real understanding of how movies actually get made (and what the people who make them are really like) and instead serves up malicious gossip in a snide tone that passes for wit. Ginger Rogers had a hugely successful career in show business that lasted over half a century, but you'd never guess why from this shallow, nasty, misogynic book. Get Arlene Croce's "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book" instead -- still the last word.
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