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