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!
ComedyRomance
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.
DirectorThornton Freeland
Trailer
Cast
Roy D'Arcy
One of the Three Greeks
Don 'Red' Barry
Dancer (uncredited)
Luis Alberni
Rio Casino Manager (uncredited)
Betty Furness
Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
Fred Astaire
Fred Ayres
Lucile Browne
Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
Clarence Muse
Caddy in Haiti (uncredited)
Franklin Pangborn
Hammerstein (uncredited)
Blanche Friderici
Elena De Rezende
Maurice Black
One of the Three Greeks
Eddie Borden
Eddie (uncredited)
Ginger Rogers
Honey Hale
Armand Kaliz
One of the Three Greeks
Etta Moten
Colored Singer
Reginald Barlow
Banker
Gino Corrado
Messenger (uncredited)
Jack Goode
Yankee Clipper (uncredited)
Jean Carmen
Dancer (uncredited)
Paul Porcasi
Mayor
Emilio Fernández
Dancer (uncredited)
Walter Walker
Senor De Rezende
Leon Beaumon
Yankee Clipper (uncredited)
Mary Kornman
Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
Movita
Singer (uncredited)
Eric Blore
Head Waiter
Dolores del Río
Belinha De Rezende
Gene Raymond
Roger Bond
Raul Roulien
Julio Rubeiro