From my Facebook archives, November 23, 2014:
"The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released in 1939.
We watched this tonight, the latest in our second pass through Fred and Ginger's movies. It is the ninth and final one they made during their legendary run at RKO in the 1930s. In many ways, it is the most unusual of their films together, as they are portraying a real-life dance team and doing dances in the style of the Castles rather than their own. It is also a far more serious story than their usual musical comedy fare.
I still love it, of course!
From Arlene Croce's classic book on Fred and Ginger:
"It was a mating of subject and stars such as movies seldom see, and it was made at a perhaps unguessably right moment in time for both the subject and the stars. It is a very dear film."
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