Girl from Rio is a 1939 American drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer from a screenplay by Milton Raison and John Thomas Neville.
Marquita Romero is a singer in Rio de Janeiro, is engaged to an American newspaper reporter, Steven Ward.
The day before she is to have her theatrical singing debut in Rio de Janeiro, she receives a call from New York City.
When she arrives in New York City, she talks to Carlos' wife, Annette Templeton, and learns that the charges stem from the fire which engulfed the club where they were both performing.
With this evidence in hand, he approaches the investigator for the Pyramid Fire Insurance Company, Dennis Slater, hoping that he would dig deeper.