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Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film famous for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, although lead actors Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond received top billing. Among the featured players are Franklin Pangborn and Eric Blore.
Following the success of Flying Down to Rio, an attempt was made to propagate a new ballroom dance after Astaire and Roger's routine, without much success. It was a mixture of samba, maxixe, foxtrot and rhumba. The distinctive feature of the dance – at least as portrayed in the movie – was that it was to be danced with the partners ...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's first movie together was Flying Down to Rio (1933).. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, 9 being released by RKO Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and 1, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1949, their only Technicolor film.
Hollywood was dominated by the eight major studios Fox Film, MGM, Paramount, RKO, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and United Artists. Cavalcade won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Flying Down to Rio directed by Thornton Freeland and featuring Dolores del Río, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
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With the advent of talkies, her Hollywood career continued through the 1930s and until 1943, in notable films such as Bird of Paradise (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933), Madame Du Barry, Wonder Bar (1934) and Journey into Fear (1943).
As RKO got the result they expected, in 1933 they quickly decided to have del Rio do another film, a musical comedy directed by Thornton Freeland: Flying Down to Rio. In the film, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers first appeared as dance partners. [58] It featured del Río opposite Fred Astaire in an intricate dance number called Orchids in the ...
December 29 – Fred Astaire 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. [14] Makata At Paraluman (The Poet and the Maiden), the first talking film in vernacular made in the Philippines, is released. [15] British Film Institute ...