
Design for Living(1933)
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.


“Too big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music!”
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.

Dolores del Río
Belinha De Rezende

Gene Raymond
Roger Bond

Raul Roulien
Julio Rubeiro

Ginger Rogers
Honey Hale

Fred Astaire
Fred Ayres

Blanche Friderici
Elena De Rezende

Walter Walker
Senor De Rezende

Etta Moten
Colored Singer

Roy D'Arcy
One of the Three Greeks

Maurice Black
One of the Three Greeks
Flying Down to Rio is a comedy, romance film released in 1933 exploring themes of dancing, airplane, love triangle, rio de janeiro, fiancé, pilot. Directed by Thornton Freeland, it stars Dolores del Río, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien. An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.
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