FRED ASTAIRE & GINGER ROGERS MARATHON
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
It’s Fred Astaire month on TCM, and the weekly Wednesday salute begins with tonight’s collection of Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals. It’s not complete by any means – but tonight’s mini-marathon does begin with their first pairing, at 8 p.m. ET in 1933’s Flying Down to Rio (pictured), and concludes at 4 a.m. ET with 1939’s The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, in which they portray another famous dance duo. In between, among other choices: 1934’s The Gay Divorcee, at 10 p.m. ET.