Ballroom dance sequences from The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers) (1939)
Title
Ballroom dance sequences from The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers) (1939)
Subject
Popular culture--United States--History--20th century
Ballroom dancers
URL
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Description
Musical film depicting the ballroom dance careers of Vernon and Irene Castle.
Content description from Imdb.com (by Rod Crawford)
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031983/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1):
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...
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Content description from Imdb.com (by Rod Crawford)
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031983/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1):
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...
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
H. C. Potter (director)
Richard Sherman (screenplay author)
Oscar Hammerstein II (screenplay adaptation)
Dorothy Host (screenplay adaptation)
Irene Castle (author of "My Husband" and "My Memories of Vernon Castle")
Publisher
RKO Radio Pictures
Date
1939 March 29
Citation
“Ballroom dance sequences from The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers) (1939),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 27, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/24.