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Irene Castle

American dancer
Also known as: Irene Foote

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  • Castle, Vernon; Castle, Irene
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    Vernon and Irene were married in 1911 and as dance partners became famous worldwide. They popularized such dances as the glide, the castle polka, the castle walk, the hesitation waltz, the maxixe, the tango, and the bunny hug.

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    …successes include bringing Vernon and Irene Castle, whom she had seen on one of her innumerable trips to Paris, to New York in 1913 and setting them up in a fashionable dancing school that was the springboard for their brief but spectacularly popular career; assisting her close friend and companion…

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Vernon and Irene Castle

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Original names:
Vernon Blythe and Irene Foote
Born:
May 2, 1887, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.
Died:
Feb. 15, 1918, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Born:
1893, New Rochelle, N.Y., U.S.
Died:
Jan. 25, 1969, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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Vernon and Irene Castle (respectively, born May 2, 1887, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.—died Feb. 15, 1918, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.; born 1893, New Rochelle, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1969, Eureka Springs, Ark.) were an American husband-and-wife dancing team, famous as the originators of the one-step and the turkey trot.

Irene and Vernon Castle.
Irene and Vernon Castle.

Vernon and Irene were married in 1911 and as dance partners became famous worldwide. They popularized such dances as the glide, the castle polka, the castle walk, the hesitation waltz, the maxixe, the tango, and the bunny hug.

Castle, Vernon; Castle, Irene
Castle, Vernon; Castle, IreneIrene and Vernon Castle.

They wrote Modern Dancing (1914) together, and after Vernon was killed in an aviation accident while training cadets to pilot planes during World War I, Irene wrote My Husband (1919). In 1939 a motion picture starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, was released, and in 1958 Irene published Castles in the Air.

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