She was a blonde, even though she was called Ginger. There were many hot blondes in that era: Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow. Garbo and Dietrich were cold blondes! But the biggest female star was a little blonde named Shirley Temple, who grew up to be a brunette. Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Claudette Colbert etc were brunettes. Katharine Hepburn was a redhead.