1.4K views · 67 reactions | Rio the robin flying down from the tree tops for some food, I love how she would fly over to me from quite some distance 李 | The Robin Whisperer | Facebook

2.8K reactions · 39 comments |  Fun Fact: In Rio (2011), Blu’s awkward flying scenes were inspired by real-life blue macaws at the Bronx Zoo—animators studied their movements to make his clumsy attempts at flight feel authentic and funny. | Hoenest | Facebook

Remembering Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Making Love-Dance Routine Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were iconic dance partners in a total of 10 films, nine of them with RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, The Barkleys of Broadway, with MGM in 1949, their only color (Technicolor) film . Astaire and Rogers were first paired together in the 1933 movie Flying Down to Rio. They were cast in supporting roles, with fifth and fourt

Meant to capitalize on their success in FLYING DOWN TO RIO ('33), THE GAY DIVORCEE ('34) was the first time in Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' ten collaborations that they received top billing after having only secondary roles in RIO. See it tonight at 10pm ET. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM