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Flying down to Rio (Motion picture)

Flying down to Rio / a Radio picture ; Radio Pictures presents ; Merian C. Cooper, executive producer ; directed by Thorton Freeland ; screen play by Cyril Hume, H.W. Hanemann and Erwin Gelsey.

Burbank CA : Turner Entertainment Co : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2006.

1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a band in Rio. Songs include "The Carioca," "Orchids in the Moonlight," and the title song. Pilot and band leader Gene Raymond woos Dolores Del Rio, and then learns that she is engaged to a friend of his, after he flies her home to Rio. Fred & Ginger provide the musical moments. Notable for a brilliantly photographed finale with chorus girls on the wings of flying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley production and moved toward a closer integration of musical and narrative elements. Astaire's dance numbers come not as interruptions but as extensions of the plot.

Not rated.

Astaire & Rogers collection ; vol. 1

Astaire & Rogers collection ; vol. 1.

Big bands -- United States -- Drama.

Entertainers -- Drama.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.

Hotels -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Drama.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Drama.

Musical films.

Comedy films.

Feature films.

Musical films.

Comedy films.

Fiction films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Cooper, Merian C.

Hume, Cyril, 1900-1966.

Hanemann, H. W. (Henry William), 1895-1968.

Gelsey, Erwin, 1900-1988.

Caldwell, Anne, 1867-1936.

Freeland, Thornton, 1898-1987.

Youmans, Vincent, 1898-1946.

Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983.

Raymond, Gene.

Roulien, Raul, 1905-2000.

Astaire, Fred.

Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995.

RKO Radio Pictures.

Turner Entertainment Co.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Beer and pretzels.

I like mountain music.

From a play by Anne Caldwell; based on an original story by Lou Brock.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.

Special features: Vintage comedy short, "Beer and pretzels", with Ted Healy and his Stooges; classic cartoon: "I like mountain music"; Theatrical trailer.

Music, Vincent Youmans ; lyrics, Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn ; photographed by J. Roy Hunt ; edited by Jack Kitchin.

Delores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital mono. ; standard version, dual-layer format.

Closed-captioned; in English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.

0780654285

9780780654280

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9781419838002

1419827367

9781419827365

9786316836137 : DVD

6316836139 : DVD

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