The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Summary:
The last of RKO's Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicles, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is also the least typical. At their best playing carefree characters in gossamer-thin musical comedy plotlines, Fred and Ginger seem slightly ill at ease cast as the real-life dancing team of Vernon and Irene Castle. The stripped-to-essentials storyline boils down to novice dancer I... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Fred Astaire - (Vernon Castle)
Ginger Rogers - (Irene Castle)
Edna May Oliver - (Maggie Sutton)
Walter Brennan - (Walter Ash)
Lew Fields - (Himself)
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Review:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is an unusual Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film for a number of reasons. For one, there's none of the cat-and-mouse games that are a hallmark of most of their films, with one chasing the other until finally wearing him/her down. Castle also uses period songs rather than an original score, and much of t... Continue >>
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