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Flying Down To Rio

Presents the first of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals concerning a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Includes the songs Flying Down To Rio, The Carioca and Orchids In The Moonlight. , A: Access CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate C: 1200' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Black & White Sound 3174 Thornton Freeland Director: Thornton Freeland RKO Radio Pictures

Roger Bond (Gene Raymond) and his orchestra are appearing in Miami, with vocalist Honey Hales (Ginger Rogers) Despite the warnings of accordionist and assistant band leader Fred Ayres (Fred Astaire) Roger is attracted to the beautiful and flirtatious Belinha (Dolores del Río) in the audience. Doña Elena (Belinha's chaperone) arranges for Roger and the band to be fired, but Roger pursues her to Brazil. He organises an engagement for the band at the Hotel Atlântico in Rio de Janeiro, unaware that the hotel

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Cast
Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Complete catalog record
Presents the first of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals concerning a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Includes the songs Flying Down To Rio, The Carioca and Orchids In The Moonlight. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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  1. A-V Online (National Information Center for Educational Media). CD-ROM database of educational and documentary media, compiled and maintained by the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM). — title, year, creator, length, format, description
  2. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — length, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
  3. Wikidata · Q1434597 ↗ — color, country

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