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- Birth nameVernon Blyth
- Vernon Castle and his wife Irene Castle were the best known ballroom dancers of the early 20th Century. Beginning about 1914 they operated several clubs and studios in the New York City area, toured the country dancing, and were able to charge as much as a thousand dollars an hour for lessons.
From 1906 through 1913 he appeared in nine Broadway musicals: "The Sunshine Girl", "The Lady of the Slipper", "The Hen-Pecks", "The Summer Widowers", "Old Dutch", "The Midnight Sons", "The Mimic World", "The Girl Behind the Counter", and "About Town." In 1914, he appeared with Irene in the Irving Berlin musical "Watch Your Step." Vernon (as a military flying instructor) was killed in an airplane accident shortly before the end or World War I.
Vernon and Irene were the subjects of the movie The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939).
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseIrene Castle(May 1911 - February 15, 1918) (his death)
- When World War I broke out he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and was sent to France as a fighter pilot. After shooting down two German planes he was sent back to Canada to train pilots. When the US entered the war, he was transferred to an American airbase in Texas to train US pilots. He was killed in a crash during a training flight in 1918.
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