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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Directed by H. C. Potter
Overview
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they’re performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world’s foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Rated PG | Length 93 minutes
Actors
Fred Astaire | Ginger Rogers | Edna May Oliver | Walter Brennan | Lew Fields | Etienne Girardot | Janet Beecher | Rolfe Sedan | Leonid Kinskey | Robert Strange | Douglas Walton | Clarence Derwent | Sonny Lamont | Frances Mercer | Victor Varconi | Donald MacBride | Marge Champion | Frank Faylen | Jack Gargan | George Irving | Hugh McArthur | Theodore von Eltz | Buzz Barton | Max Barwyn | Brooks Benedict | Joe Bordeaux | Eugene Borden | Lynton Brent | Mary Brodel | Don Brodie | Neal Burns | Tom Chatterton | Willis Clare | Frank Coghlan Jr. | James Conaty | Armand Cortes | Adrienne D'Ambricourt | Roy D'Arcy | Hal K. Dawson | Dick Dennis | Elspeth Dudgeon | Dick Elliott | Billy Franey | Dorothy George | Jack George | Wesley Giraud | Eleanor Hansen | Neal Hart | Ethel Haworth | Russell Hicks | Leyland Hodgson | Ida May Johnson | Tiny Jones | Jacques Lory | Dorothy Lovett | Max Lucke | David Mcdonald | Louis Mercier | Frank Mills | Bruce Mitchell | Edmund Mortimer | Leonard Mudie | Esther Muir | Emmett O'Brien | Frank O'Connor | Milton Owen | Bill Patton | Steve Pendleton | Jack Perrin | Joe Polosci | Fred Reinhold | Jack Richardson | Jean Sablon | Jean Stevens | Kay Sutton | Fred Sweeney | D.H. Turner | Ellinor Vanderveer | Allen Wood | William Worthington | Lillian Yarbo | John Meredith | Poppy Wilde