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Roger Bond leads his orchestra at a Miami hotel, with Honey Hale as vocalist and Fred Ayres as his assistant bandleader. Fred warns Roger to take it easy so the band does not get fired. Roger dances with Belinha De Rezende, and her chaperone, Dona Elena, arranges for the band to be dismissed. Roger finds the band an engagement at a hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Belinha has missed her plane, so Roger offers her a ride in his small plane and flies her there; a mechanical problem forces them down on what appears to be a deserted island, where she tells him that she is engaged.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Flying Down to Rio (1933)
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- In the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio, Dolores del Río became the first major actress to wear a two-piece women's bathing suit onscreen.
- Roxy Music referenced the film's title in their 1972 hit single "Virginia Plain", whose lyric goes "Baby Jane's in Acapulco / We are flying down to Rio".
- Flying Down to Rio was nominated at the 7th Academy Awards for "Carioca" in the new Best Original Song category, but lost to "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee, the next Astaire and Rogers film, their first with top billing.
