Rio Rita (1929 film)

Rio Rita is a 1929 RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler amp 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 studios biggest box office hit until King Kong 1933. Its finale was photographed in twocolor Technicolor. Rio Rita was chosen as one of the ten best films of 1929 by Film Daily.

The WheelerWoolsey plot is actually a subplot of the film, and the main story features Bebe Daniels in her first talkie as Rita Ferguson, a southoftheborder beauty pursued by both Texas Ranger Jim Stewart John Boles and local warlord General Ravenoff Georges Renavent. Ranger Jim is pursuing the notorious bandit Kinkajou along the Rio Grande, but is reluctant to openly accuse Ritas brother, Roberto Don Alvarado, as the Kinkajou because he is in love with Rita.Ravenoff successfully convinces Rita to spurn Ranger Jim on the pretext that Jim will arrest Roberto. Rita unhappily agrees to marry Ravenoff to prevent him from exposing Roberto as the Kinkajou. Meanwhile, Wheelers first wife, Katie Helen Kaiser, shows up to accuse him of bigamy, but conveniently falls in love with Woolsey. ........

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