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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.
After the success of Astaire and Rogers's first feature, Flying Down to Rio (1933), RKO's head of production, Pandro S. Berman, purchased the screen rights to Dwight Taylor's Broadway musical Gay Divorce, with another Astaire and Rogers matchup in mind.
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).
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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 in the Busby Berkeley musical Gold Diggers of 1933 (singing the emotive "My Forgotten Man" with Joan Blondell). Also in 1933, she dubbed the singing of Theresa Harris in Professional Sweetheart.
Castaneda in Paradise Isle (1937). Movita, an American of Mexican descent, was born in Nogales, Arizona, on a train traveling between Mexico and Arizona. Movita began her acting career singing the Carioca to Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire's first dance number in the first film in which the famous duo appeared together, Flying Down to Rio (1933).