Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Release Year: 1933
Country: USA
Runtime: 89
Rating: 6 (0)
Languages: Portuguese, English
Director: Thornton Freeland
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

A musical extravaganza staged in the clouds!

Romance that soars on the wings of song

Romance that soars to the skies on the wings of song!

Musical romance staged in the clouds...

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

Writing by: Lou Brock - story
Anne Caldwell - play
Erwin S. Gelsey - writer (as Erwin Gelsey)
H.W. Hanemann - writer
Cyril Hume - writer

Produced by: Lou Brock - associate producer
Merian C. Cooper - executive producer

Cast: Dolores del Rio - Belinha De Rezende (as Dolores Del Rio)
Gene Raymond - Roger Bond
Raul Roulien - Julio Ribeiro
Ginger Rogers - Honey Hale
Fred Astaire - Fred Ayres
Blanche Friderici - Doña Elena de Rezende
Walter Walker - Señor Carlos De Rezende
Etta Moten - The Carioca Singer
Roy DArcy - Member Greek Gambling Syndicate
Maurice Black - Member Greek Gambling Syndicate
Armand Kaliz - Member Greek Gambling Syndicate

Music: Leith Stevens
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Plot Outline: Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests...
Plot: Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. His Yankee Clippers band is hired to open the new Hotel Atlantico in Rio and Roger offers to fly Belinha part way home. After a mechanical breakdown and forced landing, Roger is confident and makes his move, but Belinha plays hard to get. She cant seem to decide between Roger and her fiance Julio. When performing the airborne production number to mark the Hotels opening, Julio gets some intriguing ideas...

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
As with A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), the Peanuts characters get onscreen credit in the opening credits, but with Snoopy getting top-billing, of course!

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: A revolver is shown that has a blown barrel due to what was said to be lack of strength in the metal as well as too strong a propellant powder. If the metal in the gun was weak, the part to fail would have been in the cylinder and frame area, not the barrel. The most likely cause of the damage that was shown would have been an obstruction in the barrel.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• In the original prints, the "Orchids in the Moonlight" number was color tinted.
• Joel McCrea was originally slated for the role of Roger Bond.
• Originally conceived by RKO as a vehicle for Dolores del Rio, this film is most notable for its star-making pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two relative unknowns smoked up the screen in a dance number called "The Carioca" that generated such a positive response form critics and fans that they were eventually reunited in nine subsequent films.

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