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