The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is top-flight cinematic entertainment. It's another switch on the backstage story, this time dealing with a much-in-love married pair of ballroomologists ...

Young, attractive, talented, and in love, they twirled themselves into the hearts of audiences. America’s sweethearts — and trendsetters — Vernon and Irene Castle revolutionized dance and fashion.

America’s first dance superstar came to Fort Worth a century ago, a suave and handsome New Yorker sent to help train World War I pilots. Women lined up to meet British Royal Flying Corps Capt. Vernon ...

The funeral procession for Vernon Castle stretched south on Throckmorton Street toward the railroad station. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection UT Arlington Special Collections Before World War I, ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

The superstar who time forgot - an American idol and a First World War hero - has finally been honoured in the city where he was born... Norwich. Previously it was just called the 'Training Room' at ...

It was 105 years ago when Norwich-born award-winning First World War pilot, Vernon Castle, was killed while teaching others to fly in America… and the USA went into mourning. Huge crowds gathered ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection consists of materials from one scrapbook and one photograph album. Box one contains photographs and box two various newspaper and ...

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're ...