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