--- title: 'Rio Rita (1929)' type: 'film' director: 'Luther Reed' released: '1929-09-15' runtime_minutes: 140 genres: - 'Music' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/rio-rita-1929' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020332/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Rio Rita (1929) 1929 · 140 min · Music, Romance · United States ## Synopsis Rio Rita is a 1929 American pre-Code RKO 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 10 best films of 1929 by Film Daily. ## Credits - **Director:** [Luther Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/luther-reed) - **Screenplay:** [Luther Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/luther-reed) - **Original Music Composer:** [Victor Baravalle](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-baravalle) - **Producer:** [Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/florenz-ziegfeld-jr), [William LeBaron](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-lebaron) - **Director of Photography:** [Robert Kurrle](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-kurrle) - **Editor:** [William Hamilton](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-hamilton) ## Cast - [Tiny Sandford](https://cinepixo.com/people/tiny-sandford) - [Robert Woolsey](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-woolsey) - [Dorothy Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-lee) - [Bebe Daniels](https://cinepixo.com/people/bebe-daniels) - [Richard Alexander](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-alexander) - [Georges Renavent](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-renavent) - [Wheeler & Woolsey](https://cinepixo.com/people/wheeler-woolsey) - [Don Alvarado](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-alvarado) - [John Boles](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-boles) - [Bert Wheeler](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-wheeler) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/rio-rita-1929 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3280949); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.