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Rio Rita is a american film of genre Musical theatre directed by Luther Reed released in USA on 15 september 1929 with Bebe Daniels
Rio Rita (1929)
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Add to a movie listRio Rita is a 1929 RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. The film is based on the 1927 stage musical produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, which originally united Wheeler and Woolsey as a team and made them famous. The film was the biggest and most expensive RKO production of 1929 as well as the studio's biggest box office hit until King Kong (1933). Its finale was photographed in two-color Technicolor. Rio Rita was chosen as one of the ten best films of 1929 by Film Daily.
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Bert Wheeler plays Chick Bean, a New York bootlegger who comes to the Mexican town of San Lucas to get a divorce so he can marry Dolly (Dorothy Lee). After the wedding, Ned Levitt (Robert Woolsey), Chick's lawyer, informs Chick the divorce was invalid, and advises Wheeler to stay away from his bride.Actors
Bebe Daniels
(Rita Ferguson)
John Boles
(Capt. Jim Stewart)
Bert Wheeler
(Chick Bean)
Robert Woolsey
(Ned Lovett)
Dorothy Lee
(Dolly Bean)
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