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Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio

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Flying Down to Rio

"Too big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music!"

1933

1h 29m

6.3(74 votes)

Comedy

Romance

Overview

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.

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Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río

Belinha De Rezende

Gene Raymond

Gene Raymond

Roger Bond

Raul Roulien

Raul Roulien

Julio Rubeiro

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

Honey Hale

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

Fred Ayres

Blanche Friderici

Blanche Friderici

Elena De Rezende

Walter Walker

Walter Walker

Senor De Rezende

Etta Moten

Etta Moten

Colored Singer

Roy D'Arcy

Roy D'Arcy

One of the Three Greeks

Maurice Black

Maurice Black

One of the Three Greeks

Creative team

Directed by: Thornton Freeland
Written by: Cyril Hume
Lou Brock

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