Flying Down to Rio (1933)

Fred Astaire: Fred Ayres

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• Fred Ayres : Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is really good news. Rog has outdone himself.

  Honey Hale : I'll bet he's broken both legs running after two women at the same time.

• Fred Ayres : Nothing of the kind. He's landed us a job in Rio. Rio de Janeiro. The Hotel Atlantico. We'll be flying down any morning now.

  Honey Hale : And swimming back in the afternoon. I'm taking my water-wings.

• Honey Hale : The trick is to keep your mind a blank.

  Fred Ayres : With *that* music?

  Honey Hale : Oh, Freddy, is my mind read!

• Honey Hale : [watching a Carioca dance]  What's this business about the foreheads?

  Fred Ayres : Mental telepathy.

  Honey Hale : I can tell what they're thinking about from here.

• Fred Ayres : I'd like to try this thing, just once. Come on, Honey.

  Honey Hale : We'll show 'em a thing or three!

• Fred Ayres : Mmm. It's kinda hot. Let's try a little of that, babe.

• Honey Hale : Oh, Freddy, how do you ask for little tarts in Portuguese?

  Fred Ayres : Don't heckle me. Try the Culbertson System.

• Fred Ayres : [singing]  Flying down to Rio, come with me! Where the lovely Brazilian ladies will catch your eye, By the light of the million stars in the evening sky, My Rio, Rio by the Sea-o, Flying down to Rio where there's rhythm and rhyme...

• Fred Ayres : Well, I usually fly with you, don't I? Or, am I just a fly in the carburetor?

  Roger Bond : Oh, well, I tell you, Freddy, old man, you see, it's this way: I met a friend, a very old friend who asked me as a very special favor, you know how it is, so, you'll have to fly down with the boys. You don't mind, do ya? See that they all have a dill pickle with their box lunch.

• Fred Ayres : Pull in your apples boys, here comes William Tell.

• Fred Ayres : Boys! Boys! Boys and Girls. And you too, Honey.

• Hotel Atlântico Manager : I also have the honor to visit your country once. I will play vaudeville. I played Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Newport News, and Schene-ne Schenecteddy.

  Honey Hale : Oh, Schenecteddy?

  Hotel Atlântico Manager : Yes.

  Honey Hale : Did you ever play Syracu-see?

  Hotel Atlântico Manager : Syracu-see, sure! I play four, five times a day!

  Fred Ayres : Nice work if you can get it.

• Fred Ayres : I was out on my... I was outside at the time.

• Fred Ayres : Hold your hats boys, here we go again, the latin type.