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Released
1933 · FILM

Flying Down to Rio

Too big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music!

Runtime
89 min
ComedyMusicalRomance

Synopsis

An American bandleader attempts to court a Brazilian woman who is already engaged to his employer; his friends intervene on his behalf while learning the local dance known as the Carioca. The film marks the first pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and represents their only pre‑Code production.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jack KitchinShot by J Roy HuntScored by Vincent Youmans

Also known as

  • Volando a Ríoes
  • Cariocafr
  • Cariocait

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