Editing Vernon and Irene Castle (section)

==Irene's further marriages and later years==
[[File:Entrance sign for Destiny Farm, Arkansas.jpg|thumb|150px|Sign designed by Irene Castle for Destiny Farm in [[Eureka Springs]]]] 
On 3 May 1919, Irene married Robert E. Treman, the scion of a prominent [[Ithaca, New York|Itaca]], New York family.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30712F7345F157A93C6A9178ED85F4D8185F9 "Irene Castle, Bride of Captain Treman"], ''The New York Times'', 4 May 1919</ref> They resided in Ithaca's newly cut Cayuga Heights subdivision, north of [[Cornell University]]. Irene starred in about a dozen [[silent film]]s between 1917 and 1924, including ''[[Patria (1917 film)|Patria]]'' (1917), and appeared in several more stage productions before retiring from show business. Treman reportedly invested Castle's money and lost it in the stock market. They divorced in 1923. She married two more times; the same year, she married [[Frederic McLaughlin]] (a man 16 years her elder), and two years after he died in 1944, she married George Enzinger, an advertising executive from Chicago, who died in 1959. During her marriage to "Major" McLaughlin, who was the founding owner of the [[Chicago Blackhawks]], she is credited with designing the original sweater for the Blackhawks Hockey Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/Colosseum/3815/sweater.htm |title="The Blackhawks Sweater" |access-date=10 October 2010 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730222857/http://geocities.com/Colosseum/3815/sweater.htm |archive-date=30 July 2009 }}, Geocities.com, accessed 30 July 2009</ref> She had two children with McLaughlin, Barbara McLaughlin Kreutz (1925–2003), who became Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at [[Bryn Mawr College]], and William Foote McLaughlin (1929–2012).<ref>Golden, pp. 233 and 248</ref>

Around 1930, "the best-dressed woman in America" presented serialized, quarter-hour radio dramatizations of her European travels with her husband, bulldog Zowie, and Walter ("father's coloured servant") around the capitals of Europe in "The Life of Irene Castle". Only one episode (episode #4) is known to exist.<ref>The recording of episode #4 is in the audio archive of the J. Fred and Leslie W. MacDonald Collection at the [[Library of Congress]].</ref> In 1939, the Castles' lives were turned into a movie, ''[[The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle]]'', produced by [[RKO]] and starring [[Fred Astaire]] and [[Ginger Rogers]]. [[Edna May Oliver]] played their agent, and [[Lew Fields]] was his 33 years younger self. Irene Castle served as a [[technical advisor]] on the film, but clashed with Rogers, who refused to wear Castle's trademark short bob or darken her hair.<ref>Golden, p. 243</ref> She objected to Rogers' inauthentic wardrobe demands, although a number of Castle's original Lucile gowns were copied for the movie. Castle also protested the hiring of white actor [[Walter Brennan]] to play their faithful friend and manservant Walter, who was black.<ref>Golden, p. 244</ref> In 1958, she appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show ''[[To Tell the Truth]]''.<ref>[http://www.ovguide.com/tv_season/to-tell-the-truth-season-2-75871 "Watch to Tell the Truth Season 2 Full Episodes"], Online Video Guide, accessed 8 December 2015</ref> 

[[Image:Vernon & Irene Castle Headstone 1024.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.81|Vernon and Irene Castles' grave]]
Castle and her fourth husband moved to Destiny Farm in [[Eureka Springs, Arkansas|Eureka Springs]], Arkansas, in 1954.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19580303&id=cgcjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i80FAAAAIBAJ&pg=864,623288&hl=en "Irene Castle Proves No Fan of Sad Sack"], ''The Palm Beach Post'', 3 March 1958, p. 5</ref>

===Animal welfare===
By the 1920s, and for the rest of her life, Castle was a staunch activist for animal welfare and [[anti-vivisection]].<ref name="Golden 234">Golden, pp. 234–235</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cullen |first= Frank |date=2007 |title=Vaudeville, Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America|volume=1 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Vaudeville_old_new/XFnfnKg6BcAC |publisher=Routledge |page=206 |isbn=0-415-93853-8 |access-date=}}</ref> She spoke at events for the Maryland and New York Anti-Vivisection societies.<ref name="Golden 234"/> In 1931, she called for the arrest of her neighbour William Schroeder, a pig farmer, on charges of cruelty to his animals. In response, Schroeder filed false-arrest charges of $10,000 against her. She won the case two years later.<ref name="Golden 234"/> She founded the [[Riverwoods, Illinois|Riverwoods]], Illinois, animal shelter "Orphans of the Storm" in 1928, which was still active as of 2025.<ref>[http://www.orphansofthestorm.org/About/IreneCastle.html "Our History: About – Irene Castle and Orphans of the Storm"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704183055/http://www.orphansofthestorm.org/About/IreneCastle.html |date=4 July 2008 }}, Orphans of the Storm, accessed 3 March 2012</ref><ref>{{cite web| publisher=Orphans of the Storm| title=In the beginning| url=https://orphansofthestorm.org/about/history | accessdate=2023-06-20}}</ref>

===Death===
Irene died at her Arkansas farm on 25 January 1969, aged 75.<ref>{{cite news |title=Irene Castle, Dancer, Dies at 75. Was Toast of World War I Era. She and Husband, Vernon, Started 'Castle Walk' Craze. Fought Vivisectionists |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CE6DD133BE73ABC4E51DFB7668382679EDE&legacy=true |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=26 January 1969 }}</ref> She was interred with Vernon at [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in New York City.<ref>[http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Castle-Vernon-and-Irene.html "Vernon and Irene Castle Biography"], ''Encyclopedia of World Biography, accessed 23 July 2015</ref>