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