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