Flying Down to Rio

I mean, it was 76 years, this stellar career, and he started out singing and dancing with his sister Adele in the vaudeville circuit to Broadway to Hollywood.

And, of course, he teamed with Ginger Rogers for what were 10 movie classics like Top Hat and Flying Down to Rio and so forth.

Before he died, though, of pneumonia, and that was in 87, he stipulated in his will he never wanted his life turned into a movie.

And so late last year on getting wind of a movie on the way, Fred's widow, Robin, threatened the Sony Pictures Corporation with legal action, saying she was honouring his wishes.

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Well, that was Carioca from the motion picture Flying Down to Rio, played by Don Bessie and his blowout-proof tires.

Oh, boy, am I hot tonight, huh?

Well, here's a telegram, 85 cents collect.

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Well, now that we all made our bets, Singing Wood ...

I mean, Frank Parker will sing Cocktails for Two from the motion picture Murder in the Vanity.

Play, Mata Hari, I mean, Don.

the first film

and Sonny Millay sang with him at that by the way the first film shown there which was called Flying Down to Rio It played to a full house of 1,239 people.

What year was

that,

And yet when people talk about the great look of his films, they always talk about Nicholas Musuraca, who was the DP on Cat People and I think The Leopard Man, who does a great job on those movies, and those movies are also fucking incredible.

But this movie's shot by J. Roy Hunt, who mostly shot, like, Mighty Joe Young and Flying Down to Rio and, like-

Hmm

... later Marx Brothers movies.