"75 films throughout the rest of the decade. In one of his first films during this decade, he would reprise his role of Henry Jaffrey in the film version of ""Rebound"", which starred Ina Claire, Robert Ames and Myrna Loy. Walker appeared in over 40 feature films during his career, mostly in supporting or smaller roles. Some of the more notable films in which he had either a featured or supporting role included 1933's ""Flying Down to Rio"", starring Dolores del Río, and which featured the first on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; the original version of ""Imitation"
"in Vaudeville, partnering with his older sister, Adele. He made his first movie in 1933, taking on a small role in the movie ""Dancing Lady"" starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. Rogers made her first appearance in a 1929 movie short, then made feature Pre-Code movies with Warner Brothers Pictures such as ""42nd Street"" and ""Gold Diggers of 1933"". Astaire and Rogers made their first pairing in a movie in 1933, ""Flying Down to Rio"", in which they had supporting roles; the main star was Dolores Del Rio. The film, released late in 1933, earned worldwide rentals of $1.5 million."
"up to Roger while Fred and Honey celebrate. All the songs in ""Flying Down to Rio"" were written by Vincent Youmans (music) and Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu (lyrics). The dance director was Dave Gould, assisted by Hermes Pan, who went on to become Astaire's primary collaborator. According to RKO records the film made $923,000 in the United States and Canada and $622,000 elsewhere, resulting in an estimated profit of $480,000. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Flying Down to Rio Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 American pre-Code RKO musical film noted for"
"her to a seven-year contract and cast her in the big-budget musical ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933). Rogers was paired with Fred Astaire, making his movie debut. Billed fourth and fifth respectively, the picture turned them into stars. Hermes Pan, assistant to the film's dance director, would become one of Hollywood's leading choreographers through his subsequent work with Astaire. Along with Columbia Pictures, RKO became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy. As film historian James Harvey describes, compared to their richer competition, the two studios were ""more receptive to experiment, more tolerant of chaos on the set."
"to Rio"" (1933). In the film Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers first appeared as dance partners. It featured del Río opposite Fred Astaire in an intricate dance number called ""Orchids in the Moonlight"". But after the premiere, RKO were worried about their economic problems and decided not to renew del Río's contract. In 1934 Jack Warner met del Río at a party and offered her a starring role in two films for Warner. The first was the musical comedy ""Wonder Bar"", directed by Lloyd Bacon. Busby Berkeley was the choreographer and Al Jolson her co-star. Del Río and Jolson were"
"1934's ""The Gay Divorcee"" and also interacted as comedy relief in two other RKOs, the 1935 musical ""Old Man Rhythm"" and the 1936 murder mystery ""Two in the Dark"". One additional Astaire-Rogers title for RKO, the pair's initial teaming as supporting players in 1933's ""Flying Down to Rio"", starred Gene Raymond (with leading lady Dolores del Rio) and included Eric Blore as the typically mannered assistant hotel manager, Mr. Butterbass. Blore also supported Raymond in two other films, the 1934 Paramount drama ""Behold My Wife!"" (minor role as Benson, the butler) and the 1935 RKO mystery-comedy ""Seven Keys to Baldpate"""
"with RKO Radio Pictures, where she was paired with dancer Fred Astaire in commercially successful ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933). The pair achieved greater success in subsequent musicals ""The Gay Divorcee"" (1934), ""Top Hat"" (1935), ""Swing Time"" (1936), and ""Shall We Dance"" (1937), totaling 8 films made between 1933 and 1939. Without Astaire, Rogers starred in critically and commercially successful non-musicals throughout the remainder of the 1930s such as ""Stage Door"" (1937) with Katharine Hepburn, ""Vivacious Lady"" (1938) with James Stewart, and ""Bachelor Mother"" (1939) with David Niven, culminating with an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in"
"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). She continued playing exotic women in American and Spanish language films in the 1930s, most notably as a Tahitian girl, Tehanni in ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" (1935) alongside Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. She played an island girl in ""Paradise Isle"" (1937) and again in ""Girl from Rio"" (1939) with Warren Hull. She starred in the British thriller ""Tower of Terror"" (1941) alongside Wilfrid Lawson and Michael Rennie. After a break, she appeared as Henry Fonda's"
"Carioca (song) ""(The) Carioca"" is a 1933 popular song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn, as well as the name of the dance choreographed to it for the 1933 film ""Flying Down to Rio"". It was sung in the film by Alice Gentle, Movita Castaneda and Etta Moten and danced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of an extended production dance number illustrating the ballroom dance. The dance, which was choreographed by the film's dance director, Dave Gould, assisted by Hermes Pan, was based on an earlier stage dance with the"
"five years he worked primarily at Paramount as an editor. While at Paramount, he went by George Nichols Jr. When he moved to RKO in 1933, he began using the original spelling of his last name, and became known as George Nicholls Jr. His first film at his new studio was ""Sweepings"", directed by John Cromwell. By the end of the year he was tapped to be an associate director to Thornton Freeland on ""Flying Down to Rio"", the first film to team Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers. The following year he would make his directorial debut, co-directing ""Finishing School"""
"""down please"" and it opens again. She tells him that she is going to Rome because ""I have a theory of my own"". He asks, ""Do you think you'll find it… in the ashes?"" and she answers, ""I think I will"". This was the second of two features which paired 45-year-old veteran leading man Edmund Lowe, whose film career dates back to 1915, with 26-year-old newcomer Ann Sothern.<br>""Let's Fall in Love"", their initial film, also at Columbia Pictures, was released nearly two years earlier, in December 1933, and was the leading lady's first co-starring role as well as the first"
"for ""Take a Chance"" (1932). In 1933, Youmans wrote the songs for Flying Down to Rio, the first film to feature Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as a featured dancing pair. His score contained ""Orchids in the Moonlight"", ""The Carioca"", ""Music Makes Me"", and the title song. The film was a tremendous hit, and it revived the composer's professional prospects, though he never again wrote for Astaire/Rogers. After a professional career of only 13 years, Youmans was forced into retirement in 1934 after contracting tuberculosis. He spent the remainder of his life battling the disease. His only return to Broadway"
"His first feature was ""Runaway Girls"", in 1928. In an exciting time in the film business with the arrival of sound, he briefly returned to shorts. In 1933, he directed the Academy Award-winning short ""So This Is Harris!"" This stroke of luck brought Sandrich's return to feature films. Sandrich returned to directing features with ""Melody Cruise"" (1933). He followed it with ""Cupid in the Rough"" (1933) and two starring the team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, ""Hips, Hips, Hooray!"" (1933) and ""Cockeyed Cavaliers"" (1934). Sandrich did some uncredited second unit with ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933), a musical featuring"
"chin line, that his charm is so tremendous that it comes through even on this wretched test."" However, this did not affect RKO's plans for Astaire, first lending him for a few days to MGM in 1933 for his significant Hollywood debut, where he appeared as himself dancing with Joan Crawford in the successful musical film ""Dancing Lady"". 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"" magazine attributed its massive success to Astaire's presence: The main point of ""Flying"
"Yale University and they became lifelong friends, sharing a passion for horse racing. Whitney became a major investor in two of Astaire's Broadway stage vehicles, ""The Band Wagon"" (1930) and ""Gay Divorce"" (1932), and played a crucial role in securing for Astaire a contract with RKO Pictures in 1933, using his contacts with Merion C. Cooper - both men were board members of Pan American Airways whose planes were prominently featured in Astaire's breakthrough film with Ginger Rogers: ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933). During the 1970s, Whitney was listed as one of the ten wealthiest men in the world. The"
"opportunity to integrate Latin American dance idioms into his style (the first being with Ginger Rogers in ""The Carioca"" number from ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933) and the second, again with Rogers, was the ""Dengozo"" dance from ""The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle"" (1939)), taking advantage of Hayworth's professional Latin dance pedigree. His second film with Hayworth, ""You Were Never Lovelier"" (1942), was equally successful and featured a duet to Kern's ""I'm Old Fashioned,"" which became the centerpiece of Jerome Robbins's 1983 New York City Ballet tribute to Astaire. He next appeared opposite the seventeen-year-old Joan Leslie in the"
"young beauty jumping into a volcano."". ""Bird of Paradise"" was shot in Hawaii and del Río became a beautiful native. The film premiered on 13 September 1932 in New York earning rave reviews. ""Bird of Paradise"" created a scandal when released due to a scene featuring del Río and McCrea swimming naked. This film was made before the Production Code was strictly enforced, so some degree of nudity in American movies was still fairly common. As RKO got the result they expected, they quickly decided that del Rio do another film, a musical comedy directed by Thornton Freeland: ""Flying Down"
"the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable"". According to Astaire, when they were first teamed together in ""Flying Down to Rio"", ""Ginger had never danced with a partner before. She faked it an awful lot. She couldn't tap and she couldn't do this and that ... but Ginger had style and talent and improved as she went along. She got so that after a while everyone else who danced with me looked wrong."" Author Dick Richards, in his"
"in ""We're In The Money"" from ""Gold Diggers"" included a verse in Pig Latin. Rogers was known for her partnership with Fred Astaire. Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933), ""The Gay Divorcee"" (1934), ""Roberta"" (1935), ""Top Hat"" (1935), ""Follow the Fleet"" (1936), ""Swing Time"" (1936), ""Shall We Dance"" (1937), ""Carefree"" (1938), and ""The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle"" (1939). ""The Barkleys of Broadway"" (1949) was produced later at MGM. They revolutionized the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity, set to songs specially composed for"
"Rio (2011 film) Rio is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated adventure-comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, George Lopez, and Jamie Foxx. It tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a male Spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a free-spirited female Spix's macaw, Jewel (Hathaway). The two eventually fall in love, and together they have to escape from being smuggled"
"a commercial success. In 1933 after the success of the film ""Bird of Paradise"" (1932), RKO Pictures tried to reunite the star couple. Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea. in ""Green Mansions"". However, the project was postponed and finally was canceled. Twenty-five years later, the project was resumed by Edmund Grainger and Mel Ferrer with MGM. Ferrer traveled to South America to select possible filming locations, but eventually concluded that the jungles there were too dense and dark to allow their use in the action sequences of the film. He did arrange for nearly an hour of jungle footage to"
"in ""That Night in Rio"". More recent sources include actress Elena Verdugo in the cast in a bit part and note that this may have been her first film. The movie was filmed in Los Angeles and at nearby Greenfield Ranch in Thousand Oaks, California. “Down Argentine Way” was considered a box office success in America, grossing $2 million in domestic sales. This paved the way for further ‘Good Neighbor’ films to be made and for Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda to become international sensations throughout the war years. “Down Argentine Way” was 20th Century Fox’s number one musical hit"
"That Night in Rio That Night in Rio is a 1941 Technicolor American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche (in a dual role as an American entertainer and an aristocratic businessman he is asked to impersonate temporarily) and Carmen Miranda. It is one of several film adaptations of a play called ""The Red Cat"" by Rudolf Lothar and Hans Adler. Others are ""Folies Bergère de Paris"" (1935) and ""On the Riviera"" (1951). The original songs for the film were written by the musical partnership of Harry Warren and Mack Gordon. These include: ""Boa"
"Bird of Paradise (1932 film) Bird of Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code American romantic adventure drama film directed by King Vidor, starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. In 1960, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication per the Copyright Act of 1909. As a yacht sails into an island chain in the South Pacific, a large number of natives in pontoon boats sail out to greet them. The natives dive for the trinkets"
"the wild. Eventually, they discover that the Amazon is under threat, and that Blu and Jewel's old nemesis, Nigel the cockatoo, is back for revenge. Rio (2011 film) Rio is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated adventure-comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, George Lopez, and Jamie Foxx. It tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a male Spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro"
"work for the sequel, ""Son of Kong"", released in December 1933, and did optical/photographic composites for the airplane-wing-dance sequence in the first Astaire-Rodgers musical ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933). ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1939) and Orson Welles' ""Citizen Kane"" (1941) were other well remembered RKO films on which Dunn worked before America entered the second world war. In ""Citizen Kane"", Dunn's composites open the film and many of cinematographer Gregg Toland's ""deep-focus"" shots utilize Dunn's skill for creating optical composites. For ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), separate footage of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and a leopard were photographically combined by"
"actress in Mexican films. She was generally thought to be one of the most beautiful actresses of her era, and was the first Latin American movie star to have international appeal. In the silent film era, del Río was considered a counterpart to Rudolph Valentino. Her career flourished until the end of the silent era. She had successful films such as ""Ramona"" (1928) and ""Evangeline"" (1929). Later, in the 1930s, she starred successful films like ""Bird of Paradise"" (King Vidor, 1932), ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933) and ""Journey into Fear"" (1942, directed by Orson Welles). In the 1940s and 1950s,"
"comedian Sonnie Hale in a supporting role, slanted the British version in a more humorous direction than its counterparts. A young waiter and a manicurist share the same room without ever meeting – because she works in the day and he at night. They encounter each other for the first time, and fall in love, without realising that they are already roommates. Early to Bed (1933 film) Early to Bed is a 1933 British-German romantic comedy film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Heather Angel, Fernand Gravey and Edmund Gwenn. The film was made as a co-production between the German"
"1, 2011 by Warner Bros. on the WB Archive Collection. Rio Rita (1942 film) Rio Rita is a 1942 comedy film starring Abbott and Costello. It was based upon the 1927 Flo Ziegfeld Broadway musical, which was previously made into a 1929 film also titled ""Rio Rita"" that starred the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. Kathryn Grayson (in her first starring picture) and John Carroll replace the 1929 version's Bebe Daniels and John Boles. Nazi spies have infiltrated the Hotel Vista del Rio, a resort on the Mexican border. They plan to use a radio broadcast by a famous"
"In Love, You'll Waltz"" and ""The Kinkajou""). Rio Rita (1929 film) Rio Rita is a 1929 American Pre-Code RKO musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. The film is based on the 1927 stage musical produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, which originally united Wheeler and Woolsey as a team and made them famous. The film was the biggest and most expensive RKO production of 1929 as well as the studio's biggest box office hit until ""King Kong"" (1933). Its finale was photographed in two-color Technicolor. ""Rio Rita"" was chosen as one"
"nudity in American movies was still fairly common. Orson Welles said del Río represented the highest erotic ideal with her performance in the film. The film lost an estimated $250,000 at the box office. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Bird of Paradise (1932 film) Bird of Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code American romantic adventure drama film directed by King Vidor, starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. In 1960, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its"
"Road to Rio Road to Rio is a 1947 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. ""Road to Rio"" was the fifth of the """"Road to …"""" series. Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out-of-work musicians, travel the United States trying to find work and stay away from"
"Come Fly with Me (film) Come Fly with Me is a 1963 British comedy film about three beautiful international air hostesses looking for romance and excitement. The film has dramatic or soap opera elements to it, and was a vehicle for glamorizing the jet age and the prestige, adventure and romance that came with being an air hostess. It is based on Bernard Glemser's 1960 chick-lit novel ""Girl on a Wing,"" which was published again in 1969 under the title, ""The Fly Girls."" Directed by Henry Levin, the film stars Dolores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin, Karl Malden,"