| Birth: | Apr. 17, 1893
New Rochelle
Westchester County
New York, USA | | Death: | Jan. 25, 1969
Eureka Springs
Carroll County
Arkansas, USA | 
Dancer. Born Irene Foote in New Rochelle, New York, together with her husband Vernon Castle, they with one of the most invigorating ballroom dancers of the early 20th Century. They gained worldwide popularity for their graceful style and introducing such dances as the one-step, fox-trot, turkey trot, castle polka, castle walk and hesitation waltz. Irene is also credited with creating the fashion for bobbed hair. Following her husband's death in an 1918, airplane crash, she retired from dancing. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Family links:
Spouse:
George Enzinger (1892 - 1959)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for Irene Castle | | | Burial:
Woodlawn Cemetery
Bronx
Bronx County
New York, USA
Plot: H-2 Parkview |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 180 |
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