The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) (MOD)

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) (MOD)"You could be a perfectly wonderful dancer if you wanted to," Irene tells the vaudeville second banana who will someday be her husband. They were even more wonderful together. Vernon and Irene Castle became King and Queen of the Ballroom, creating the Castle Walk, Maxie, Texas Tommy and other sensations. The world followed their every move. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers close their fabulous run of '30s films by portraying the popular dancers whose

One of the last features shot in the semi-documentary style popularized by The Naked City and Dragnet

With the help of his ex-secret agent butler

The first of several films to showcase Cagney's skills as a boxer

the superhero rock star who challenges everything he thought he knew about protecting the innocent

leather-jacketed private investigator

Kelly won the New York Film Critics and National Board of Review Best Actress Awards for this and two other acclaimed 1954 performances (Hitchcock's Rear Window and her Oscar-honored work in The Country Girl)

First-billed Helen Twelvetrees plays Poster's forgiving Broadway sweetie

Doris Day and Howard Keel fuss

Dobby must take matters into his own hands

and John Astin also star

directed and co-written by Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure)

smash-mouth smackdown of sexthugs&rocknroll from writer/director Guy Ritchie (Lock