Folks:
One of my favorite parts of Flying Down to Rio are when the three male band members (the Yankee Clippers) do the Carioca with... each other, two of them even doing the forehead-to-forehead routine. Of course, this is a Pre-Code film, they could never have gotten away with even the suggestion a few years later.
IMDB has a great full-cast list, but I'm hoping someone can name the three actors who do the dancing. Any help out there?
Even before they got to Rio where that scene you described took place, early in the film when Roger and Fred rushed to get on stage, those two really reminded me of Curtis and Lemmon in Some Like It Hot. This film must have been an inspiration for Some Like It Hot.
shareI believe "Some like it hot" was based on a 1920s German story, though I may be wrong. I do not know how it got transposed to Chicago.
shareJack Goode (sometimes spelled "Good") is the name of the one who does the little spin with kick.
http://www.lambertville-music-circus.org/leadingroles/1955.html