The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

Cast

Fred Astaire
as Vernon Castle
Ginger Rogers
as Irene Castle
Walter Brennan
as Walter
Frank Faylen
as Adjutant

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Genres & Description

Biography Drama Musical Romance War

7.0 / 10

In 1911, Vernon Castle, minor comic in a stage revue, pursues the leading lady to a New Jersey beach...where, instead, he meets stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they're married; at Irene's insistence, they abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career, which attempt only lands them in Paris without a sou. Fortunately, agent Maggie Sutton hears them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. But at the height of their fame, World War I begins...

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