The combination of a sick child and a weary heart led me over the weekend to watch a favorite film, 1935's "Top Hat," the fourth joint appearance of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and a creaky old ...
It was the Great Depression and movie goers flocked to theaters just to get a few hours of escapism, which is exactly what they got on December 29, 1933 with what turned out to be the very beginning ...