The Girl from Rio (1927 film)

The Girl from Rio
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Directed by	Tom Terriss
Written by	Pauline Forney Norman Kellogg Tom Terriss
Produced by	Samuel Sax Samuel Bischoff
Starring	Carmel Myers Walter Pidgeon Richard Tucker
Cinematography	Ray June
Production company	Gotham Productions
Distributed by	Lumas Film Corporation
Release date	September 1, 1927 (1927-09-01)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Film still of Carmel Myers and Walter Pidgeon

The Girl from Rio is a 1927 American silent romance film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Carmel Myers, Walter Pidgeon, and Richard Tucker. ^{[1] [2]}

Plot

An American coffee purchaser arrives in Rio de Janeiro and falls in love with a local café dancer.

Cast

• Carmel Myers as Lola
• Walter Pidgeon as Paul Sinclair
• Richard Tucker as Antonio Santos
• Henry Hebert as Farael Fuentes
• Mildred Harris as Helen Graham
• Edward Raquello as Raoul the dancer

Preservation

Prints of The Girl from Rio are in the film collections of the Library of Congress, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Library and Archives Canada. ^[3]

References

1. Munden p. 291
2. Progressive Silent Film List: The Girl from Rio at silentera.com
3. The Library of Congress American / FIAF Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Girl from Rio(Wayback Machine)

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• The Girl from Rio at IMDb
• allmovie.com