Ginger Prince

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Ginger Prince in a promotional photo for The Prince of Peace. The film was an unsuccessful attempt at a breakout role for Prince.

Ginger Prince (born 1943) was a child actress, best known for her roles in a handful of Hallmark Productions pictures. She starred in three of Kroger Babb's productions before fading into obscurity.

Prince was discovered at a Georgia-Alabama Theatre Owners Association banquet in the last 1940s performing a Shirley Temple-style song and dance routine. Babb quickly signed her up to play the lead role in his film The Prince of Peace, which included four musical numbers for her to sing, while promoting her as "42 inches and 42 pounds of Southern Charm." Her performance, however, would not be received positively, with Variety lamenting Babb's attempt to push the "precocious moppet" as the next Shirley Temple.

Prince would later perform in Babb's 1951 narrative on alcoholism, One Too Many, inexplicably with two musical numbers, and in the female beauty film The Secrets of Beauty with Hollywood makeup artist Ern Westmore.

[edit] Roles

The Prince of Peace (1948) - Ginger
One Too Many (1951)
The Secrets of Beauty (1951)

[edit] References

Feaster, Felicia; Wood, Bret (1999). Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of Exploitation Film. Baltimore, MD: Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 1887664246.
Friedman, David F. (1990). A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-608-X.
"Review", Variety, April 6, 1949.