Roberta (1935)
Roberta (1935)
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Cast & Crew.
Irene Dunne
Stephanie
Fred Astaire
Huck Haines / Choreographer
Ginger Rogers
Comtesse Scharwenka
Randolph Scott
John Kent
Helen Westley
Roberta / Aunt Minnie
Claire Dodd
Sophie
Victor Varconi
Ladislaw
Luis Alberni
Voyda
Ferdinand Munier
Lord Delves
Torben Meyer
Albert
Adrian Rosley
Professor
Bodil Rosing
Fernande
Lucille Ball
Fashion Model
Candy Candido
Candy
William Frawley
Bartender
Wanda Perry
Fashion Model (uncredited)
William Carey
Wabash Indian (uncredited)
Alice Duer Miller
Novel
William A. Seiter
Director
Jane Murfin
Screenplay
Sam Mintz
Screenplay
Allan Scott
Screenplay
Pandro S. Berman
Producer
William Hamilton
Editor
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
Edward Cronjager
Director of Photography
Bernard Newman
Costume Design
Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyricist
Jerome Kern
Songs / Music
Jimmy McHugh
Songs / Lyricist
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
Otto A. Harbach
Lyricist
Max Steiner
Music Director
Thomas Little
Set Dresser
Dorothy Fields
Lyricist
John E. Tribby
Sound Recordist
Carroll Clark
Assistant Art Director
Glenn Tryon
Additional Dialogue
Mike Tellegen
Kay Sutton
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 7, 1935
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 46m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Roberta is a 1935 American musical film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by William A. Seiter. It stars Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and features Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Victor Varconi and Claire Dodd. The film was an adaptation of the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. It was a solid hit, showing a net profit of more than three-quarters of a million dollars.
The film kept the famous songs "Yesterdays", "Let's Begin" (with altered lyrics), and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from the play, along with a fourth song, "I'll Be Hard to Handle". Three songs from the play were dropped—"The Touch of Your Hand", "Something Had to Happen" and "You're Devastating". Two songs were added to this film, "I Won't Dance" (resurrected from the flop Kern show Three Sisters) and "Lovely to Look At", which both became #1 hits in 1935. The latter addition was nominated for the Best Song Oscar. The songs "I Won't Dance" and "Lovely to Look At" have remained so popular that they are now almost always included in revivals and recordings of Roberta.
Roberta is the third Astaire-Rogers film, and the only one to be remade with other actors. MGM did so in 1952, entitling the new Technicolor version Lovely to Look At. MGM had bought Roberta in 1945 with the intention of producing a remake, keeping it out of general circulation until the 1970s. Roberta was the first of three pairings for Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott; High, Wide and Handsome (1937) and My Favorite Wife (1940) were the other two.