Gaby Rodgers
{{short description|American actress}}
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| name = Gaby Rodgers
| image = Gaby Rodgers in Tales of Tomorrow (Ghost Writer).jpg
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| caption = Rodgers in an episode of Tales of Tomorrow (1953)
| birth_name = Gabrielle Rosenberg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1928|03|29}}{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Max Allan |title=Mickey Spillane on Screen: A Complete Study of the Television & Film Adaptations |date=2012 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, N.C. |isbn=978-0786492428 |page=184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8BkYARiEgMC&pg=PA37}}
| birth_place = Frankfurt-am-Main, German Reich
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| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|journalist|theatre director}}
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| notable_works = {{ubl|Kiss Me Deadly}}
| relatives = {{ubl|Jakob Rosenberg (uncle)|Edmund Husserl (grand-uncle)}}
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Gaby Rodgers (born Gabrielle Rosenberg; March 29, 1928) is a German-born American actress, theater director, and journalist.
Biography
Rodgers is the daughter of Jewish art dealer Saemy Rosenberg,{{cite news|title=Saemy Rosenberg, 78, President of International Art House Dies|work=The New York Times|date=January 4, 1971}} the niece of art historian Jakob Rosenberg and the great-niece of the philosopher Edmund Husserl.*{{cite web|url=http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1902-the-great-whozits|title=The Great Whozits - The Criterion Collection|last=Stephens|first=Chuck|date=June 27, 2011}} Rodgers was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, but immigrated with her family to Amsterdam, London and finally into the United States as refugees from the National Socialist regime in Germany. 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, Rodgers is perhaps best remembered as Lily Carver in the 1955 film Kiss Me Deadly. Her only other film role was in the 1953 New York indie The Big Break. She appeared on the cover of the January 1957 issue of Cosmopolitan, representing "The New Face of Broadway". {{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} Rodgers continued to work as a stage actress and director into the new century.{{cite news |url=http://easthamptonstar.com/Archive/1/Gaby-Rodgers-Life-Upon-Wicked-Stage |work=East Hampton Star |title=Gaby Rodgers: Life Upon The Wicked Stage |last=Sansegundo |first=Sheridan |date=August 12, 1999 |access-date=August 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214143544/http://easthamptonstar.com/Archive/1/Gaby-Rodgers-Life-Upon-Wicked-Stage |archive-date=February 14, 2018 |url-status=dead }}
Private life
Rodgers was married for many years to lyricist Jerry Leiber, half of the songwriting team of Leiber & 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 then-wife's name as a pseudonym.{{cite web|url=http://www.spectropop.com/BillyEddWheeler/index.htm |title=Billy Edd Wheeler |publisher=Spectropop.com |date= |accessdate=2015-11-29}}
References
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- {{cite web |url=http://wesclark.com/ubn/gaby_rodgers.html |title=My Interview with Gaby Rodgers |last=Clark |first=Wes |date=July 15, 2002 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201230450/http://wesclark.com/ubn/gaby_rodgers.html |archivedate=2012-02-01}}
- {{cite news |title=Gaby Rodgers: Life Upon The Wicked Stage |last=Sansegundo |first=Sheridan|work=The East Hampton Star|date=August 12, 1999 |url=http://archive.easthamptonstar.com/ehquery/990812/feat1.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061005214351/http://archive.easthamptonstar.com/ehquery/990812/feat1.htm|archivedate=2006-10-05}}
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Category:Actresses from Amsterdam
Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
Category:21st-century American women
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