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The story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step.The story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step.The story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Buzz Barton
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Max Barwyn
- Waiter - Cafe de Paris
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaIrene Castle served as a technical advisor on the film. According to Ginger Rogers, Castle disliked every costume that she wore and deemed them to be anachronistic. Due to censorship restrictions, Rogers' costumes evoked late 1930s fashions rather than the more daring styles of Castle's 1910s era. After Rogers refused to cut her hair to portray the bob hairstyle that Irene had popularized, Castle became more displeased. The studio silenced Castle's protests with an additional payment of $5,000.
- GoofsWalter, the Footes' and later the Castles' servant / factotum was, in reality, a black man.
- Quotes
Irene Castle: I thought you could be a first dancer, a very beautiful first dancer because you are a beautiful dancer but you're so smug and conceited that you can't see any further than your funny nose!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Fred Astaire: Puttin' on His Top Hat (1980)
- SoundtracksOnly When You're in My Arms
(1939)
by Con Conrad - Herman Ruby Bert Kalmar
Sung by Fred Astaire (uncredited)
End dance: Fred Astaire (uncredited) and Ginger Rogers (uncredited)
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There is one hilarious goof in this delightful film. When Irene and Vernon are having dinner in the Parisian restaurant in which they are to make their debut Irene is wearing her wedding dress as they are too broke to afford to buy her a new evening dress, She is also wearing a little lacy winged hat of the type worn in the national costume of Holland.
In England there were gales of laughter when Irene says "I feel just like a bride again in my wedding dress and my little Dutch cap." In the UK a Dutch cap is a female contraceptive device which I believe is called a "diaphragm" in USA.
In England there were gales of laughter when Irene says "I feel just like a bride again in my wedding dress and my little Dutch cap." In the UK a Dutch cap is a female contraceptive device which I believe is called a "diaphragm" in USA.
- pdiamond-3
- Aug 13, 2006
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- Budget
- $1,196,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) officially released in Canada in English?
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