Template:Did you know nominations/Ginger (1935 film)

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:34, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Ginger (1935 film)

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... that on the day she began filming her first starring role in Ginger, nine-year-old Jane Withers received congratulatory bouquets from W. C. Fields and President Franklin D. Roosevelt? Source: "Two huge baskets of flowers arrived on the set. ... So I opened up one card and it read, 'To my little friend, Jane, one swell girl. Knock 'em dead, kid, you're going to be great'. ... The other one said, 'To my little friend, Jane, God bless you, I know you are going to be one of our greatest stars in America. Your friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt'". (Movies Were Always Magical)
- ALT1:~~... that in the 1935 film Ginger, nine-year-old Jane Withers impersonates Greta Garbo and recites lines from the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet?~~ Source: "In the film, Withers does imitations of actresses ZaSu Pitts and Greta Garbo" (AFI Catalog); "she burlesques Greta Garbo and Zasu Pitts and enacts the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet without making it ridiculous." (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Violin Sonata No. 1 (Stanford)
Comment: While both sources say it was her 8th birthday, she was born on April 12, 1926. The New York Times film review gets her age right.

5x expanded by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 19:11, 23 April 2020 (UTC).

@Yoninah: Hi, this looks good. Just one issue:

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited: - If we're using ALT0, Fields's quote needs a citation per WP:DYK#Cited hook
Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Both are fine but i prefer ALT0 epicgenius (talk) 13:24, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: it's from the same source as the FDR quote. I added another cite. Yoninah (talk) 18:27, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks.

It looks good to go now. epicgenius (talk) 18:31, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Striking ALT1. Yoninah (talk) 18:47, 25 April 2020 (UTC)