The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle

This fine film biography of the title beloved dance team was Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire's final film together for RKO. (Astaire and Rogers teamed once again a decade later, in MGM's THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, but the magic of their pairing had largely fled.) After Irene Foote (Rogers), the daughter of a well-known New Rochelle physician, meets vaudeville performer Vernon Castle (Astaire), they fall in love, marry, go to Paris, and become a famous ballroom dancing duo. Soon all the world wants to be like the Castles: not only do they invent several dance steps, but her hair is duplicated in wigs, cigars are named after him, and they have their own line of cosmeti...