Trivia

Ginger includes Cheri Caffaro's first nude scenes. She was 25 at the time. In a 1974 interview, she explained why she decided to get naked and how it was very upsetting. "Nudity is one way to get into the movies. I'm not saying it's the best way, but right now (the early 1970s) we're going though a nude cycle so you have to go along with it." She started auditioning for movies in her early 20s, but they all required nudity, which she did not want to do. But, she said, she finally got tired of fighting it after not being cast in anything. "I took the role of Ginger....There were some nude scenes in the picture, but I decided it would be all right." When the time came to film her first scene, suddenly she was not so sure. "I looked at all of the technicians and crew members and got upset. But I'd signed the contract and I don't believe in not keeping my word. So I stepped in front of the camera without a stitch on." When she noticed the mostly male group staring at her, she remembers blushing all over. Director Don Schain was so impressed with her, he cast her for the sequel, where she again spent considerable time running around and even performing fight scenes naked, as well as having steamy borderline X-rated sex scenes with naked guys. At that point, Caffaro said being exposed in front of everyone was habit forming. She and Schain started a relationship and soon got married. He directed her in a few more films and asked his wife to get naked in all of them. She said being married to him actually made her more comfortable and secure being nude. She then joked that the naked male actors she had sex scenes with were a lot more nervous, because they knew they were kissing her and fondling her body in front of her husband.

The credited theatrical film debut of Tracey Walter (Ginger's brother).

Cheri Caffaro's second film and first starring role. It and the two Ginger sequels she starred in were written, produced and directed by Don Schain, who she married soon after this film was released.

When writer and director Don Schain was asked in an interview what he says to critics who say that exploitation films are filled with too much violence and sex, he said "When you're talking about pictures like Ginger or Girls Are for Loving, you're talking about pictures that were meant to entertain. They were meant to give an audience what an audience wanted. They were never expected to be something that the critics would enjoy. I think that critics were more bothered by the fact that these types of films were phenomenally successful, than by their actual content. If they had just been these little unknown pictures we wouldn't be talking about them today, and they wouldn't have talked about them back then."

In order to help promote Ginger's theatrical release, star Cheri Caffaro accepted her publicist's dare to strip naked for an interview with esteemed New York Post columnist Earl Wilson in the Sherry Netherland Hotel in midtown Manhattan. This film was her first time being naked on screen (see Trivia entry above) and she was initially petrified. But by the time she finished the film, she was more comfortable with nudity, so it took little persuasion to convince her to strip naked for Wilson. According to reports, he enjoyed it because it was vastly different than his usual celebrity interviews.