Road to Rio
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Director: Norman Z. McLeod, Jack Rose
Writer: Jack Rose
Producer: Jack Rose
Road to Rio is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about two inept vaudevillians who stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner. Once in Brazil, they foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score.
- Crosby and Hope used the film to promote their latest investment, a soft drink called Lime Cola.
- The product had been invented in 1915 but the company wasn't incorporated until 1945; its stock rose from $1 to $10 per share within one year, and the bottler declared a 50% dividend in 1946.
- At this point Crosby and Hope, always on the lookout for worthwhile investments, bought a substantial interest in Lime Cola.
Previous Showings
7 Runs • 5 Festivals
3,714 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (January 25, 1948)
Original Run: January 25, 1948 (Sunday - Saturday)
All runs on record (7):
- January 25, 1948 (Sunday - Saturday)Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
- March 7, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ Going My Way
- August 10 - 11, 2000 · 1,205 ticketsSummer 2000w/ Road to Morocco
- June 7 - 8, 2001 · 611 ticketsMORE HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS 1940-1950w/ Easter Parade
- June 13, 2003 · 725 ticketsbob-hope-2003w/ Nothing But the Truth
- June 15 - 17, 2011 · 685 ticketsMusicalsw/ Road to Utopia
- March 5 - 6, 2026 · 488 ticketsMusicals, plus Bob Hopew/ The Paleface