Ginger Prince
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Ginger Prince was a child actress, best known for her roles in a handful of Hallmark Productions pictures. She starred in three of Kroger Babb
's productions. She then returned to Atlanta, GA to host a radio program, "Ginger from Georgia".
Prince would later perform in Babb's 1951 narrative on alcoholism, One Too Many, with two musical numbers, and in the female beauty film The Secrets of Beauty with Hollywood makeup artist Ern Westmore
.
She spent the rest of her childhood in Atlanta, dancing and experiencing a typical '50's girlhood before attending Stephens College in Missouri. However, the bright lights beckoned and she headed to New York to fulfill her dreams. She performed in summer stock at Casa Manana, and several other productions before returning to Atlanta and marrying, having two daughters, and becoming a choreographer for the Southern Ballet and later the Atlanta Ballet. She won a National Choreographer's Grant for her critically acclaimed modern ballet, "Lifeline." She also served on the Georgia Council for the Arts during Jimmy Carter's years as Governor.
She returned to acting in earnest in the late 1970s. She appeared in many productions at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre in Sarasota, Florida, and summer stock at The Brunswick Music Theatre in Brunswick, Maine. She made a living, dinner theatre and summer stock companies are the bread and butter of an actor's life- mainstays to hone their craft until a big break. Then in the early '80's, she returned to New York. In 1984, she landed a National tour of Pippin with Ben Vereen in the role of Fastrada. Then, the original cast of the Off Broadway 'Steel Magnolia's' on Christopher Street at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Ginger filled in time with other sumer stock productions and sharing the love of her acting craft at Sande Shurin's acting studio. She taught some beginner courses in acting..and some courses at Marymount Manhattan College. From her early days with the Atlanta Ballet, she always thought of herself as a teacher.
Kroger Babb
Howard W. "Kroger" Babb was an American film and television producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine-show tradition...
's productions. She then returned to Atlanta, GA to host a radio program, "Ginger from Georgia".
Prince would later perform in Babb's 1951 narrative on alcoholism, One Too Many, with two musical numbers, and in the female beauty film The Secrets of Beauty with Hollywood makeup artist Ern Westmore
Ern Westmore
Ern Westmore , born Ernest Henry Westmore, was a Hollywood make-up artist and sometimes actor, the third child in Frank Westmore's famed Westmore family tree...
.
She spent the rest of her childhood in Atlanta, dancing and experiencing a typical '50's girlhood before attending Stephens College in Missouri. However, the bright lights beckoned and she headed to New York to fulfill her dreams. She performed in summer stock at Casa Manana, and several other productions before returning to Atlanta and marrying, having two daughters, and becoming a choreographer for the Southern Ballet and later the Atlanta Ballet. She won a National Choreographer's Grant for her critically acclaimed modern ballet, "Lifeline." She also served on the Georgia Council for the Arts during Jimmy Carter's years as Governor.
She returned to acting in earnest in the late 1970s. She appeared in many productions at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre in Sarasota, Florida, and summer stock at The Brunswick Music Theatre in Brunswick, Maine. She made a living, dinner theatre and summer stock companies are the bread and butter of an actor's life- mainstays to hone their craft until a big break. Then in the early '80's, she returned to New York. In 1984, she landed a National tour of Pippin with Ben Vereen in the role of Fastrada. Then, the original cast of the Off Broadway 'Steel Magnolia's' on Christopher Street at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Ginger filled in time with other sumer stock productions and sharing the love of her acting craft at Sande Shurin's acting studio. She taught some beginner courses in acting..and some courses at Marymount Manhattan College. From her early days with the Atlanta Ballet, she always thought of herself as a teacher.
Roles
- The Prince of PeaceThe Prince of PeaceThe Prince of Peace, also known as The Lawton Story, was a film that later made the exploitation rounds under the production of Kroger Babb. The film was based on a passion play created in 1948 in Lawton, Oklahoma. Filmed in Cinecolor, it was presented in various forms in the years following its...
(1948) - One Too ManyOne Too ManyOne Too Many, also known as Killer With a Label, Mixed-Up Women, and The Important Story of Alcoholism, was an exploitation film produced by Kroger Babb in 1950...
(1951) - The Secrets of Beauty (1951)
- "Lifeline" ballet 1975 and over 80 productions of musical and straight plays