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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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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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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gymnast Irene Aragón Castillo (born 1963), Mexican politician Irene Castle (1893–1969), half of the ballroom dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle Irene Cefaro...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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Historical dance (section Dance in the 1930s and 1940s)
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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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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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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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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Leonid Kinskey (section Life and career)
Dudelman Flirting with Fate (1938) as Pedro Lopez The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) as Artist Exile Express (1939) as David The Spellbinder...
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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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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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Elisabeth Marbury (category American 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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Alexander's Ragtime Band (category Dick and Dee Dee songs)
sensation were Vernon and Irene Castle. The charismatic, trendsetting duo frequently danced to Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and his other modernist...
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