Gaby Rodgers | Gaby Rodgers Biography
Gaby Rodgers (née Gabrielle Rosenberg;) is a German-born American actress, theater director, and journalist. She was the daughter of Jewish art dealer Saemy Rosenberg and the great-niece of the philosopher Edmund Husserl. Gaby Rodgers was born in Germany but emigrated with her family to Amsterdam, London and finally into the United States because of the Third Reich. In Amsterdam, she played marbles with Anne Frank as her family knew the Franks.
Although she worked extensively as a television actress in the 1950s, she is perhaps best remembered as Lily Carver in the 1955 theatrical release “Kiss Me Deadly”.
Her only other film role was in the 1953 New York indie The Big Break. She performed on the cover of the January 1957 issue of Cosmopolitan, representing “The New Face of Broadway”. she continued to work as a stage actress and director into the new century.
The American famous actress was married for many years to lyricist Jerry Leiber, half of the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller, who wrote “Hound Dog”, “Jailhouse Rock”, and other songs. Rodgers frequently is cited as co-author of the song “Jackson” with Billy Edd Wheeler, but this is untrue; Leiber wrote the song with Wheeler, using his X-wife’s name as a pseudonym.
Gaby Rodgers Age
Rodgers was born on March 29. 1928 in Frankfurt, Main, Germany as Gabrielle Rosenberg. She is an actress, known for Kiss Me Deadly “1955”, Suspense “1949” and Studio One in Hollywood”1948″. She is 91 years old as of 2019.
Gaby Rodgers Net worth
Her’s estimated Net Worth is $1 million dollars as of 2019. She is still alive.
Gaby Rodgers Kiss Me Deadly
“Kiss Me Deadly” is an independently made 1955 American black-and-white film noir, produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, that stars Ralph Meeker. The screenplay was written by Aldrich and A.I. Bezzerides, based on Mickey Spillane’s crime novel Kiss Me, Deadly. The film was released by United Artists.
The film grossed $726,000 in the United States and a total of $226,000 overseas. The film also withstood scrutiny from the Kefauver Commission, which called it a film “designed to ruin young viewers”, leading director Aldrich to protest the Commission’s conclusions.
Kiss Me Deadly marked the film debuts of the actresses Cloris Leachman and Maxine Cooper.
In 1999 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”
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Gaby Rodgers Interview
“Whatever happened to Gaby Rodgers (Lily Carver in “Kiss Me, Deadly”)?
I just got off the phone with Gaby Rodgers. Yes, this is the same Gaby Rodgers who opened Robert Aldrich’s mysterious atomic box in “Kiss Me, Deadly.”
She was at first naturally guarded and wanted to know who I was and why I wanted to ask her questions. I tried to put her at ease; we talked for about ten or fifteen minutes. She does not seem to be well-acquainted with the phrase “film noir.”
From Robert Aldrich conversation with Gaby Rodgers
– She was offered a ten-year contract by Selznick but turned it down. One reason was that she had a problem with the cheesecake photos she was required to do. Anyway, she enjoyed the early days of television and went on to do theater directing and criticism, which she still occasionally does.
– She asked Aldrich how she was supposed to portray Lily Carver; he told her that he wanted her to play a lesbian! So she had her hair cut short and wore (as she described it), a “tuxedo.” (That’s that surprisingly modern-looking black suit with the white lapels.) She naturally asked if she had any scenes with other women, and Aldrich said no. So the short hair and the tux are all that indicate Aldrich intended for her to be a lesbian for this part.
– She indicated that, reading the novel by Mickey Spillane, she was attempting to portray a drug addict – which accounts for the somewhat dreamy behavior of her character – but that the production codes wouldn’t really allow a more explicit portrayal. (Same problem with a more descriptive portrayal as a lesbian.)
– According to Rodgers, Robert Aldrich was, “…a lovely man, jolly, easy-going. A Catholic.” So she was surprised, viewing the finished product, that the film was so sadistic.
– Kiss Me Deadly was described by her as being “a quickie movie, a one-take kind of thing.” She had no idea that it would be as highly regarded by critics as it has become. She mentions that everyone was rather lightly directed in it, and filming didn’t take very long at all.
– At one point she talked to Mickey Spillane about her character, but it didn’t help.
– She confirmed that she had an influence on her husband (famous songwriter Jerry Lieber) in writing the song “Jackson,” a hit for Johnny Cash, but wouldn’t elaborate due to legal reasons. (My assuring her that I had no interest in songwriting legality didn’t help…)
– She also mentioned that she once got her husband to read a work by the German author Thomas Mann that contained an evocative passage about disappointment. He wrote, “Is That All There Is?” (a hit for Peggy Lee) as a result. The song was intended to be in the style of German cabaret. (Gaby Rodgers is a German who grew up in Holland.)
– She confirmed the story that she played with Anne Frank as a girl.
– She prefers films that are not explicit and agreed with me that suggesting something is usually better than depicting it outright. I got the distinct impression that she’s not a great fan of modern filmmaking.
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