Is the best kept secret in Independence, Missouri, that Hollywood icon Ginger Rogers was born there in a two-bedroom bungalow? For what seemed like a fleeting moment, a museum in that house proudly ...

Marge Padgitt had always loved Ginger Rogers. “I was a fan of Ginger Rogers, as was my mother,” said Padgitt, a longtime resident of Independence, Mo. “She got me interested in old-time movies and, of ...

Padgitt sold the house to a fellow Ginger Rogers fan in Kansas City, who rented it to her son until changes in her personal life forced her to sell it, too. Vogler closed on the house last week. “I’m ...