--- title: 'Rio Rita (1942)' type: 'film' director: 'S. Sylvan Simon' released: '1942-03-11' runtime_minutes: 91 genres: - 'Comedy' - 'Music' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/rio-rita-1942' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035259/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Rio Rita (1942) 1942 · 91 min · Comedy, Music, Romance · United States ## Synopsis Rio Rita is a 1942 American comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Abbott and Costello. It was based upon the 1927 Flo Ziegfeld Broadway musical, which was previously made into a 1929 film also titled Rio Rita that starred the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. Kathryn Grayson and John Carroll replace the 1929 version's Bebe Daniels and John Boles. ## Credits - **Director:** [S. Sylvan Simon](https://cinepixo.com/people/s-sylvan-simon) - **Screenplay:** [Richard Connell](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-connell) - **Original Music Composer:** [Herbert Stothart](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-stothart) - **Producer:** [Pandro S. Berman](https://cinepixo.com/people/pandro-s-berman) - **Director of Photography:** [George J. Folsey](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-j-folsey) ## Cast - [Bud Abbott](https://cinepixo.com/people/bud-abbott) - [Patricia Dane](https://cinepixo.com/people/patricia-dane) - [Kathryn Grayson](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathryn-grayson) - [Charles Ray](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-ray) - [Barry Nelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-nelson) - [Arthur Space](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-space) - [Mitchell Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitchell-lewis) - [Dorothy Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-morris) - [Tom Conway](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-conway) - [Peter Whitney](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-whitney) - [John Carroll](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-carroll) - [Lou Costello](https://cinepixo.com/people/lou-costello) - [Eva Puig](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-puig) - [Joan Valerie](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-valerie) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/rio-rita-1942 Film facts: Wikidata (Q25005); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.