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