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