Vernon and Irene Castle were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers and dance teachers who appeared on Broadway and in silent films in the early 20th...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is a 1939 American biographical musical comedy film directed by H.C. Potter. The film stars Fred Astaire, Ginger...
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Castle Walk is a dance originated and made famous by Vernon and Irene Castle. The moniker was coined from the Castle's signature dance step styling, and...
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December 25, 2015. "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) - H.C. Potter - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie...
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Edna May Oliver (section Awards and honors)
Fiddle, and in a supporting role as the agent of the title characters in the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musical The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. A 1940...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). (*) (w/ song) "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" from The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). "Sunday...
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Asking, Society Lawyer, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, Piccadilly Incident, There's Always Tomorrow and Young and Dangerous. Television series in which...
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team of Vernon and Irene Castle Irene Cefaro (1935–2023), Italian stage and film actress Irene Champlin (1932–1990), American actress Irene Chang, Malaysian...
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Fred Astaire (category American racehorse owners and breeders)
originality, and precision. He drew influences from many sources, including tap, classical dance, and the elevated style of Vernon and Irene Castle. His trademark...
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Robert Strange (actor) (section Early life and career)
throughout the 1930s and 40s, in such roles as Waxey Armitage in Special Agent (1935), Dr. Hubert Foote in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), Art in...
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Walter Brennan (category Cambridge Rindge and Latin School alumni)
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). Brennan also appeared in Melody of Youth (1939), and Stanley and Livingstone...
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fast-paced Castle Walk and One-step, Vernon and Irene Castle's music director, James Reese Europe, would slowly play "The Memphis Blues". The Castles were intrigued...
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little success. Irene later had a successful career in modern dance with her husband Vernon Castle and in 1939 Ginger Rogers played Irene in the biographical...
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Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), Carefree (1938), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) was produced later...
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The Whirl of Life (category American black-and-white films)
Whirl of Life is a 1915 silent film built around and starring dance couple Vernon and Irene Castle and stage actor Arthur Stanford, his only film. Directed...
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Elisabeth Marbury (category American women theatre managers and producers)
Academy of Letters to playwrights Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw; to the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle. She was an early promoter of African American...
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and red-clay tile roofs. He built a theatre called Castles by the Sea, with the largest dance floor in the world, for dancers Vernon and Irene Castle...
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Ruth Gordon (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
as a dancer in The Whirl of Life, a film based on the lives of Vernon and Irene Castle.[citation needed] The same year, she made her Broadway debut in...
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Ballroom dance (redirect from Ballroom and Latin Dancing)
and Europe. Here Vernon and Irene Castle were important, and so was a generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and Victor...
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dreams. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) - documentary-style biopic about early ballroom dance stars Vernon and Irene Castle. Roseland (1977) -...
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Lew Fields (category American theatre managers and producers)
Broadway (1937) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) Greenspan, Charlotte (2010). Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical. New York:...
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Carefree (film) (category American black-and-white films)
collaborator Hermes Pan.: 140 In preparation for The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, the Astaire-Rogers film which was already scheduled to follow...
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Robert Wise (category Presidents of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Time (1938) and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939). In The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and 5th Ave Girl (1939), Hamilton and Wise, as assistant...
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Mitzi Mayfair (section Life and career)
the film The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, but decided she was not a big enough star. As Fred Astaire was already cast as Vernon, the part went to Ginger...
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H. C. Potter (category American theatre managers and producers)
Dark, The Cowboy and the Lady, and The Shopworn Angel (1938), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle and Blackmail (1939)...
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Angeles CA, for US released on April 13 29 March The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 31 March The Hound of the Baskervilles April 1939 1 April Dodge...
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with Murder (1939) as Boat Tour Guide (uncredited) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) as Adjutant (uncredited) The Flying Irishman (1939) as New...
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(sauteuse), and 5 4 time (5 4 waltz, half and half). In the 1910s, a form called the Hesitation Waltz was introduced by Vernon and Irene Castle. It incorporated...
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mother in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), Tyrone Power's mother in the adventure film The Mark of Zorro (1940), and Henry Fonda's mother in...
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dancing that began during the World War I era with the influence of Vernon and Irene Castle." Territory bands helped disseminate popular music—which included...
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