Flying Down to Rio
1933/12/22 • Released • English, Portuguese
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
Casts
Dolores del Río
Belinha De Rezende
Gene Raymond
Roger Bond
Raul Roulien
Julio Rubeiro
Ginger Rogers
Honey Hale
Fred Astaire
Fred Ayres
Blanche Friderici
Elena De Rezende
Walter Walker
Senor De Rezende
Etta Moten
Colored Singer
Roy D'Arcy
One of the Three Greeks
Maurice Black
One of the Three Greeks
Armand Kaliz
One of the Three Greeks
Paul Porcasi
Mayor
Reginald Barlow
Banker
Eric Blore
Head Waiter
Luis Alberni
Rio Casino Manager (uncredited)
Don 'Red' Barry
Dancer (uncredited)
Leon Beaumon
Yankee Clipper (uncredited)
Eddie Borden
Eddie (uncredited)
Lucile Browne
Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Messenger (uncredited)
Emilio Fernández
Dancer (uncredited)
Betty Furness
Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
Jack Goode
Yankee Clipper (uncredited)
Mary Kornman
Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
Movita
Singer (uncredited)
Clarence Muse
Caddy in Haiti (uncredited)
Franklin Pangborn
Hammerstein (uncredited)
Jean Carmen
Dancer (uncredited)
Recommended
The Gay Divorcee
October 12, 1934
Footlight Parade
October 21, 1933
Carefree
September 2, 1938
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
March 29, 1939
Dancing Lady
November 24, 1933
Charade
December 1, 1963
The Doors
March 1, 1991
Cocaine Bear
February 22, 2023
Casablanca
January 15, 1943
Top Gun
May 16, 1986
Titanic
November 18, 1997
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
July 24, 2019
Joker
October 1, 2019
Oppenheimer
July 19, 2023
PK
December 18, 2014
Back to the Future
July 3, 1985
Eden Lake
September 12, 2008
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
October 16, 1970
Materialists
June 12, 2025
Rambo III
May 24, 1988