Girl of the Rio is a 1932 American pre-Code RKO musical film starred Dolores del Río and Leo Carrillo.

South of the U.S. border, Don José Tostado, a Mexican caballero, falls in love with Dolores Romero, a dance-hall girl.

They make their plans, but before they can carry them out, Tostado learns of them and hatches a plot of his own: he frames Powell for a murder and has him arrested.

[1] The short story, "The Blue Ribbon", written by Gerald Beaumont, was printed in Red Book Magazine in their January 1923 issue.

Willard Mack used that story as the basis for his play, The Dove, which was produced by David Belasco on Broadway at the Empire Theatre, premiering on August 24, 1925.

[4] In 1939, RKO would remake the film, this time under the title The Girl and the Gambler, starring Tim Holt as Johnny and Steffi Duna as Dolores.