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