Academy Awards, USA 1935
| Nominee Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Vincent Youmans (music) Edward Eliscu (lyrics) Gus Kahn (lyrics) For the song "Carioca". |
RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Thornton Freeland
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Band leader Gene Raymond can keep away from Latin beauty Dolores del Rio, despite warnings from the management of the club in which they are playing and fellow musician Fred Astaire. They end up getting fired, but are able to get a new gig in del Rio's native Brazil. He flies her down personally in his small plane, but they end up crash landing on a tropical island and spend the night together. Fred and the band eventually catch up, including singer Ginger Rogers. They dance together for the first time at a Brazilian club, complete with a huge rotating piano. The club gets into trouble for not having a licence, so Raymond comes up with a hair-brained idea featuring dancing girls on the wings of flying airplanes, which must be seen to be believed. Unfortunately it isn't, with obvious back projection making the whole thing absurd. That more or less sums up the whole movie.
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