Rio Rita | |
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Directed by | S. Sylvan Simon |
Written by | Richard Connell Gladys Lehman John Grant |
Produced by | Pandro Berman |
Starring | Bud Abbott Lou Costello Kathryn Grayson John Carroll |
Cinematography | George J. Folsey |
Edited by | Ben Lewis |
Music by | Herbert Stothart |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $900,000[1] |
Box office | $3,220,000[1] |
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 (in her first starring picture) and John Carroll replace the 1929 version's Bebe Daniels and John Boles.[2]