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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
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29 March 1939 (USA)
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This is the film version of Vernon and Irene Castle, sensational ballroom dancers prior to World War I. full summary | add synopsis
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Dancer
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France
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Marriage
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Plane Crash
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Beautiful Woman
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A fine war-time bio-pic
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Fred Astaire | ... | Vernon Castle |
 | Ginger Rogers | ... | Irene Castle nee Foote |
 | Edna May Oliver | ... | Maggie Sutton |
 | Walter Brennan | ... | Walter Ash |
| Lew Fields | ... | Lew Fields |
| Etienne Girardot | ... | Papa Aubel |
| Janet Beecher | ... | Mrs. Foote |
| Rolfe Sedan | ... | Emile Aubel |
| Leonid Kinskey | ... | Artist |
| Robert Strange | ... | Dr. Hubert Foote |
| Douglas Walton | ... | Student Pilot |
| Clarence Derwent | ... | Papa Louis |
| Sonny Lamont | ... | Charlie, Tap Dancer |
| Frances Mercer | ... | Claire Ford |
| Victor Varconi | ... | Grand Duke |
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93 min
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Mono (RCA Victor System)
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Jean Sablon refused the part of the French singer played by Louis Mercier because he thought it too small, but his voice is used on the soundtrack.
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Factual errors: Walter, the Foote's and later the Castle's servant/ factotum, was in reality a black man.
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Featured in Fred Astaire: Puttin' on His Top Hat (1980) (TV)
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OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is the last of the 9 RKO musicals Astaire did with Rogers. However, from a story point-of-view, it is their best film by a mile. The contest isn't even close, IMO.
It's not their best musical. This film is really a drama with a few musical interludes, whereas most of the other Astaire-Rogers films were musical comedies. Those other films had flimsy plots at best and were saved only by their songs and dances. BUT - "Vernon and Irene" could easily stands alone without any songs or dances. It even has some action sequences as is typical of war-time films (WWI, in this case).
The film is a bio-pic about the Castles, who in their heyday were even bigger than Astaire and Rogers. The choreography is more attuned to 1910's sensibilities than the usual Astaire and Rogers film, but that's okay. Astaire and Rogers dance just well as always.
As the dancing duo's last RKO film, V&C is quite classy and a fine close to a great RKO dancing career for the two.