TCM Schedule for Friday, August 30, 2024 - Summer Under The Stars: Ginger Rogers
All times Eastern
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Top Hat, their best film.
6:00 AM | Rafter Romance (1933)
A salesgirl falls for a night worker without realizing they share the same apartment.
Dir: William Seiter | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, George Sidney
7:15 AM | Professional Sweetheart (1933)
A radio star's pure image leads to a fake engagement to a hayseed.
Dir: William A. Seiter | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, Zasu Pitts
8:30 AM | Romance in Manhattan (1935)
A New York chorus girl helps an illegal immigrant build a new life in the big city.
Dir: Stephen Roberts | Cast: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl
10:00 AM | Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
In this remake of Grand Hotel, guests at a New York hotel fight to survive personal tragedy.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon
12:15 PM | Perfect Strangers (1950)
A divorcee finds love with a married man while they both sit on a jury.
Dir: Bretaigne Windust | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Thelma Ritter
2:00 PM | Tender Comrade (1943)
Lady welders pool their resources to share a house during World War II.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey
4:00 PM | The Gay Divorcee (1934)
A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
Dir: Mark Sandrich | Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
6:00 PM | Top Hat (1935)
A woman believes that an enamored dancer is her best friend's husband.
Dir: Mark Sandrich | Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
8:00 PM | Swing Time (1936)
A dancer falls for a dance instructor while saving to marry someone else.
Dir: George Stevens | Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
10:00 PM | Shall We Dance (1937)
A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes.
Dir: Mark Sandrich | Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
12:00 AM | The Major and the Minor (1942)
A woman disguises herself as a little girl and ends up in a military academy.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
2:00 AM | Primrose Path (1940)
The youngest child in a family of prostitutes tries to go straight with a working man.
Dir: Gregory La Cava | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joel Mccrea, Marjorie Rambeau
4:00 AM | Storm Warning (1951)
A woman witnesses the beating death of a man by the KKK of which her brother-in-law is a member.
Dir: Stuart Heisler | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day