Gold Diggers of 1933
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer is the Guest Programmer for TCM tonight – and as you might guess from a mind this dark, even the comedies he selects to start his evening are a bit twisted, pointed and sarcastic. That’s certainly true of his leadoff entry, this 1933 musical that confronts the then-ongoing Depression by singing about it. That starts with the opening song, in which Ginger Rogers, dressed in a giant coin and not much else, sings “We’re in the Money.” And that’s just for starters. By the second verse, she’s singing in Pig Latin. Don’t ask. Just watch.