Actress Ginger Rogers Wears White Sunglasses to Le Cirque
May 24, 2009 | Filed Under Celebrity, Movie Star
I recently bought a paperback copy of Charlotte Chandler’s biography “Nobody’s Perfect, Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography.” As I was flipping through it, I stumbled onto her story of how actress Ginger Rogers liked to wear “dark sunglasses with white frames at night” while dining at Le Cirque restaurant in New York City. Why?
“When the owner, Sirio Maccione, came by to make certain the souffle was perfect, she explained to him that while people might assume she wore the dark glasses in order to not be recognized, she really wore them so she wouldn’t see the other diners, to put distance between herself and them. The glasses prevented her from seeing anyone except those with whom she was actually having dinner. There were times when she was in the mood to be a celebrity. There were other times she wasn’t in the mood, and at those times, she wore the sunglasses.”
Who knew such a simple prop could make all those fans disappear before her very eyes…