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Production schedules for this spring and summer read like headings in an encyclopedia. Every major studio has at least one biography already in production, more on the production line. Under way are Young Mr. Lincoln, Stanley and Livingstone, Beethoven, Man of Conquest (Sam Houston), Man in the Iron Mask, Juarez...
The Castles' career was a preview of subsequent Hollywood story patterns. They literally became famous overnight. It was a night in March 1911, in Paris. There & then, at the Café de Paris, they launched the dancing era by performing to the extraordinary sounds of Too Much Mustard. Within...
The Castles starts when Vernon (Fred Astaire) is working as stooge in a revue sketch with Lew Fields (Lew Fields). When he meets Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers), daughter of a New Rochelle doctor, he is first horrified by her amateurish version of Bessie McCoy's Yama Yama dance, then...
Without catering to the jitterbug trade, The Castles modernizes somewhat the mood of daring pre-War dances which would seem shockingly sedate to modern audiences. It does so, however, without demolishing their charm and elegance. The songs that tinkle across the sound track-In My Merry Oldsmobile, By the Light...
Concerned with nothing more than the romantic meeting and somewhat prolonged courtship of a European fortune hunter (Charles Boyer) and a Kansas-bred nightclub singer (Irene Dunne), it frequently falters in pace. It also includes a few sequences which, reminiscent of Director McCarey's work for Hal Roach, are...