Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Too big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music!
89 min
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.
- Release date
- December 22, 1933
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Dolores Del Río as Belinha De Rezende
- Gene Raymond as Roger Bond
- Raul Roulien as Julio Rubeiro
- Ginger Rogers as Honey Hale
- Fred Astaire as Fred Ayres
- Blanche Friderici as Dona Elena De Rezende
- Walter Walker as Senor De Rezende
- Etta Moten as The Colored Singer
- Roy D'Arcy as One of the Three Greeks
- Maurice Black as One of the Three Greeks
Crew
- Thornton Freeland · Director
- Cyril Hume · Writer
- H.W. Hanemann · Writer
- Erwin Gelsey · Writer
- Anne Caldwell · Writer
- Vincent Youmans · Composer
- J. Roy Hunt · Cinematographer
- Jack Kitchin · Editor