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    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 directed by H.C. Potter. The film stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers...
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    American singer, songwriter, and actress Irene Castle (1893–1969), half of the ballroom dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle Irene Charnley (born 1960), South...
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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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    Fred Astaire (category American racehorse owners and breeders)
    learned the tango, waltz and other ballroom dances popularized by Vernon and Irene Castle. Some sources state that the Astaire siblings appeared in a 1915...
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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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  • 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 7 April Love...
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    "Honey Dear" 1934: Social Register "The Castle Walk" 1939: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 1983: Low Down and Dirty Rag, Donald Byrd/Group II, choreographed...
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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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  • 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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  • Asking, Society Lawyer, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, Piccadilly Incident, There's Always Tomorrow and Young and Dangerous. She died on November 12...
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  • Fiddle Some Like It Hot St. Louis Blues The Star Maker The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle Swanee River That's Right - You're Wrong The Three Musketeers Three...
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    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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    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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    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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    been featured in several major movies — The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), For Me and My Gal (1942), Broadway Rhythm (1944), Strangers on a...
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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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    mazurka, racket, redowa, and the waltz. Vernon and Irene Castle brought an air of respectability to couples dancing, and sparked what was arguably the...
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  • Hervey C. Calkin Harry Carey Charles A. Carleton Diahann Carroll Vernon and Irene Castle, well-known husband & wife dancing team, movie stars Carrie Chapman...
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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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    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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  • 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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    changed the world of dance bands and led to new dance steps, popularized by the show-dancers Vernon and Irene Castle during the 1910s. The growth of dance...
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