Flying Down to Rio

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Call Number: DVD Musical Flying
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.
Based on an original story by Lou Brock.
Special features: Vintage comedy short: Beer and pretzels with Ted Healy and his Stooges; Classic cartoon: I like mountain music; Theatrical trailer.
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Delores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien.
This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Songs include "The Carioca," "Orchids in the Moonlight," and the title song. 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.
DVD; Dolby Digital mono.

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