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...better than any guide-book to the American dance is the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers pictorial view of fox trots, rhumbas, slides and glides in the "Story of Vernon and Irene Castle." Unfortunately, the picture offers little else. During Vernon's early slapstick days--his barber shop scene with Lew Fields, his gaudy, striped coats that are liable to start a national trend, his old-fashioned romance with Irene Foote--the picture proceeds at a light and entertaining pace. The mood of pre-war gaiety and Sunday excursions to the beach at New Rochelle is, made delightfully real. But once...
...Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Lew Fields; TIME, April...
...Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Lew Fields; TIME, April...
...surf. The comedy and tragedy of the plot are not, for the most part, dependent upon melodramatic action, but rather upon the subtle shades of acting. Yet the best acting, the best characterizations, are done by the supporting cast and not, strangely enough, by Mr. Laughton. His portrayal of Ginger Ted is consistent neither in mood nor in quality of acting. Apart from the essential change in Ginger Ted's character as required by the plot, Mr. Laughton has added so many minor oscillations that he leaves no fixed conception. Perhaps this flexibility of Ted's personality was preconceived...
...Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Lew Fields; TIME, April...