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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Lou Brock (story)
Anne Caldwell (play)
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Release Date:
29 December 1933 (USA) more
Tagline:
A musical extravaganza staged in the clouds! more
Plot:
Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
NewsDesk:
Exclusive: Forget the Romance, Stick to Fighting, Fans Tell John Woo
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Classic pre-code Talkie more (33 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Dolores del Rio | ... | Belinha De Rezende (as Dolores Del Rio) | |
| Gene Raymond | ... | Roger Bond | |
| Raul Roulien | ... | Julio Ribeiro | |
| Ginger Rogers | ... | Honey Hale | |
| Fred Astaire | ... | Fred Ayres | |
| Blanche Friderici | ... | Doña Elena de Rezende | |
| Walter Walker | ... | Señor Carlos De Rezende | |
| Etta Moten | ... | The Carioca Singer | |
| Roy D'Arcy | ... | Member Greek Gambling Syndicate | |
| Maurice Black | ... | Member Greek Gambling Syndicate | |
| Armand Kaliz | ... | Member Greek Gambling Syndicate | |
| Paul Porcasi | ... | The Mayor | |
| Reginald Barlow | ... | Alfredo Vianna, The Banker | |
| Eric Blore | ... | Mr. Butterbass, Asst. Hotel Manager | |
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| Franklin Pangborn | ... | Hammerstein - the Hotel Manager | |
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89 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Victor System)
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The first (of ten) dancing partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. more
Quotes:
Fred Ayres:
Nothing of the kind. He's landed us a job in Rio. Rio de Janeiro. The Hotel Atlantico. We'll be flying down any morning now.
Honey Hale:
And swimming back in the afternoon. I'm taking my water-wings.
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Featured in "Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story" (1987) more
Soundtrack:
Music Makes Me more
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There was a golden age of cinema lasting only four or five years - from the end of the silent era to the beginning of the Hays Code, the severe censorship rules which sought to turn cinema from naughty to nice, but in actuality sapped them of their truth and energy.
`Flying Down to Rio' is a classic pre-Hayes code talkie, and its characters have a quality of frankness which endears them to modern audience far more than many later films, whose stilted, conservative quality is somewhat alienating. You'd be surprised at what they could get away with in those days - it would be forty years before a film could get away with a line like that spoken by a starlet of her South American rivals - `What have those girls got below the equator that we haven't got?'
The film, about a love triangle between a Brazilian woman and two members of a swing band, is of course famous for two things - the slightly surreal sequence in which showgirls ride a biplane down to Rio in Busby Berkley-esque formation, and the debut of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as a screen team. It's no wonder that audiences fell in love with the duo, whose `Carioca' is the highlight of the film.
They only made them like this for a little while - more's the shame!