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    Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 American pre-Code RKO musical film famous for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, although lead...
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    Brando. In films, she played exotic women and singers, such as in Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). She was the mother of Miko...
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    melodramas to musical comedies and romantic dramas. Her most successful films of that decade include Bird of Paradise (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933) and...
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    Astaire and Rogers were first paired together in the 1933 movie Flying Down to Rio. They were cast in supporting roles, with fifth and fourth billing...
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    she was paired with dancer Fred Astaire in commercially successful Flying Down to Rio (1933). The pair achieved greater success in subsequent musicals The...
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    films between 1924 and 1966, including Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Great Gatsby (1949), Tokyo Joe (1949) and Forbidden Planet...
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    On his return to RKO, he got fifth billing after fourth-billed Ginger Rogers in the 1933 Dolores del Río vehicle Flying Down to Rio. In a review, Variety...
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  • Kahn, as well as the name of the dance choreographed to it for the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio. The number was sung in the film by Alice Gentle, Movita...
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  • Astaire, Rhodes and Blore. The Gay Divorcee was the second (after Flying Down to Rio) of ten pairings of Astaire and Rogers on film. Guy Holden, a famous...
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    then moved to RKO Studios, was put under contract and with Astaire started work on Flying Down to Rio, a picture starring Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond...
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    Paradise (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933), Madame Du Barry, Wonder Bar (1934) and Journey into Fear (1943). In 1943, del Río returned to Mexico and became...
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  • and Ginger Rogers appear on screen together for the first time in Flying Down to Rio. Ang Aswang, the first sound film made in the Philippines, is released...
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    housekeeper too frightened to protect two children from a murder attempt. She portrayed a chaperone in Flying Down to Rio (1933). Her last film role was...
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  • Rogers film of the same name "Flying Down to Rio" by Drugstore "Flying Down to Rio" by Sutherland Brothers and Quiver "From Rio with Love" by Jakatta (pseudonym...
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  • (uncredited) – Messenger Flying Down to Rio (1933) (uncredited) – Yankee Clipper The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1933) – Harry According to the State of California...
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  • Sutherland, Steve (15 May 1982). "Flying Down to Rio". Melody Maker. p. 18. Righi, Lea (4 September 1982). "Review of Duran Duran, Rio". The Morning Call. p. 67...
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    of the routine is taken up with tap steps. "Music Makes Me" from Flying Down to Rio (1933). "Don't Let It Bother You" from The Gay Divorcee (1934). "It's...
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  • Raul Roulien (category Male actors from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    career spanned a total of 18 films, including Delicious (1931) and Flying Down to Rio (1933), the latter starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their...
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    the couple's eighth wedding anniversary. Peeples is seeking[needs update] to keep the couple's home, a Malibu manufactured home with an ocean view that's...
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  • In addition to the seven originals, the album also features a rendition of the title song from the 1933 musical film Flying Down to Rio. Will Layman...
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    with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady (1933) with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio (1933) with Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne (1934)...
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    Cole Porter "Flying Down to Rio" w. Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn m. Vincent Youmans. Introduced by Fred Astaire in the film Flying Down to Rio "Forty-Second...
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  • was an American screenwriter who co-wrote many movies, including Flying Down to Rio, Swing Time, The Big Broadcast of 1937, and Cover Girl. "Erwin S....
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  • shows. Strickland was born in Birmingham, Alabama, one of five children, to Theodosia and Lynn Strickland, who owned a large tire dealership. She married...
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  • Carlos Montalbán (category Mexican emigrants to the United States)
    Year Title Role Notes 1933 Flying Down to Rio 1934 La cruz y la espada Esteban 1934 Un capitan de Cosacos Uncredited 1934 Dos más uno dos Ronald 1934 Sadie...
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  • Portuguese-born Brazilian woman who grew up in Rio de Janeiro. The eponymous song "Carioca", from the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio, has become a jazz standard. Carnaval...
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    show Zombie. She performed in two musical films released in 1933: Flying Down to Rio (singing "The Carioca") and a more substantial role as a war widow...
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    Morning Glory (1933) Little Women (1933) The Right to Romance (1933) The Son of Kong (1933) Flying Down to Rio (1933) Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) Spitfire (1934)...
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  • on the set of Flying Down to Rio (1933), in which he worked as an assistant to dance director Dave Gould. While Astaire was trying to work out a series...
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  • the titular song from Flying Down to Rio during the opening segment. Singer Irene Cara sang the Frank Sinatra song "Here's to the Losers" in honor of...
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