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.

Dolores del Río

(Belinha De Rezende)

Gene Raymond

Raul Roulien

(Julio Rubeiro)

Ginger Rogers

Fred Astaire

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

Reginald Barlow

Eric Blore

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))

Ray Cooke

(Banjo Player (uncredited))

Gino Corrado

(Messenger (uncredited))

Emilio Fernández

(Dancer (uncredited))

Betty Furness

(Belinha's Friend (uncredited))

Alice Gentle

(Singer (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))

Adrian Rosley

(Hotel Atlântico Manager (uncredited))

Hazel Hayes

(Singer (uncredited))

Jean Carmen

(Dancer (uncredited))