Movie

Flying Down to Rio (1933)

• NR
• December 22, 1933
• 1h 29m

• Comedy
• Romance

“Too big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music!”

Overview

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

Writers

Lou Brock, H.W. Hanemann, Cyril Hume, Erwin S. Gelsey

Starring

Dolores del Río, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien