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IRENE CASTLE - PHOTOGRAPH - SIGNED - VERNON & IRENE CASTLE - BALLROOM DANCING

IRENE CASTLE - PHOTOGRAPH - SIGNED - VERNON & IRENE CASTLE - BALLROOM DANCING

$ 72.59

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    Description

    IRENE CASTLE
    Half tone photograph of
    Vernon & Irene Castle in dance pose
    8 1/4" x 10 1/2"
    Condition: very good
    Signed and inscribed:
    "To Ella / with love Irene 1938"
    Provenance: Charles Williamson estate
    Irene Castle (born Irene Foote) and her husband Vernon Castle (born William Vernon Blyth)
    were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers who appeared on Broadway and silent films
    in the early 20th century. They reached the peak of  their popularity in Irvin Berlin's Broadway
    show
    Watch Your Step
    (1914). Vernon died in a plane crash in 1918. In 1938 their life was
    dramatized in
    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
    , starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
    Born: 1893, New Rochelle, New York; died: 1969, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
    George Houle
    Houle Rare Books & Autographs
    Palm Springs, California
    SINCE 1976
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