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Roberta
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Overview

User Rating:
7.1/10   939 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Jerome Kern (play) and
Otto A. Harbach (play) ...
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Release Date:
8 March 1935 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
A Heart-Load of Maddening Beauties.. In Gasping Gowns.. A Fortune in Furs.. A Ransom in Jewels.. In a Song-Studded Romance of Paris in Lovetime! more
Plot:
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
NewsDesk:
Cowgirl Carroll Dead At 95
 (From WENN. 30 July 2009, 6:31 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Another Underrated Musical more (35 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

Irene Dunne ... Stephanie

Fred Astaire ... Huckleberry Haines

Ginger Rogers ... Comtesse Scharwenka

Randolph Scott ... John Kent
Helen Westley ... Roberta / Aunt Minnie
Claire Dodd ... Sophie Teale
Victor Varconi ... Prince Ladislaw
Luis Alberni ... Alexander Petrovitch Moskovich Voyda
Ferdinand Munier ... Lord Henry Delves
Torben Meyer ... Albert
Adrian Rosley ... Professor
Bodil Rosing ... Fernande (maid)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Lucille Ball ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Hal Borne ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Halbert Brown ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Candy Candido ... Trick-voiced Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
William Carey ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Virginia Carroll ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Lynne Carver ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Diane Cook ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Phil Cuthbert ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
William B. Davidson ... Ship's officer (uncredited)
Delmon Davis ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Lorraine DeSart ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Ivan Dow ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Betty Dumbries ... Fashion model (uncredited)
William R. Dunn ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Mary Forbes ... Mrs. Teale (uncredited)
William Frawley ... Bartender (uncredited)
Rita Gould ... Woman (uncredited)
Jane Hamilton ... Liane, a fashion model (uncredited)
Grace Hayle ... Newspaper reporter (uncredited)
Maxine Jennings ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Howard Lally ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Mike Lally ... Bar customer (uncredited)
Lorna Low ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Muzzy Marcellino ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Margaret McChrystal ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Paul McLarind ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Marie Osborne ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Wanda Perry ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Donna Mae Roberts ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Zena Savine ... Woman (uncredited)
Sam Savitsky ... Cossack (uncredited)
Charles Sharpe ... Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Gene Sheldon ... Banjo-playing Wabash Indianian (uncredited)
Kay Sutton ... Fashion model (uncredited)
Mike Tellegen ... Cossack (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel ... Cossack (uncredited)
Michael Visaroff ... Waiter (uncredited)
Judith Vosselli ... Woman (uncredited)
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Directed by
William A. Seiter 
 
Writing credits
Jerome Kern (play "Roberta") and
Otto A. Harbach (play "Roberta")

Jane Murfin (screenplay) and
Sam Mintz (screenplay) and
Allan Scott (screenplay)

Glenn Tryon (additional dialogue)

Alice Duer Miller  novel "Gowns by Roberta"
Dorothy Yost  uncredited (treatment)

Produced by
Pandro S. Berman .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Edward Cronjager (photographed by)
 
Film Editing by
William Hamilton 
 
Art Direction by
Van Nest Polglase 
 
Costume Design by
Bernard Newman (gowns)
 
Makeup Department
Mel Berns .... makeup artist (uncredited)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kenneth Holmes .... assistant director (uncredited)
Edward Killy .... assistant director (uncredited)
Argyle Nelson .... second assistant director (uncredited)
C.C. Thompson .... assistant director (uncredited)
Sam White .... assistant director (uncredited)
 
Art Department
Carroll Clark .... associate art director
Thomas Little .... set dresser (as Thomas K. Little)
 
Sound Department
George Marsh .... sound editor
John E. Tribby .... sound recordist (as John Tribby)
 
Special Effects by
Harry Redmond Sr. .... special effects supervisor (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Robert De Grasse .... camera operator (uncredited)
 
Music Department
Philip Faulkner Jr. .... music recordist (as P.J. Faulkner Jr.)
Max Steiner .... musical director
Wayne Allen .... music arranger (uncredited)
Gene Rose .... music arranger (uncredited)
Max Steiner .... composer: incidental music (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Fred Astaire .... dance arranger
Zion Myers .... production associate
Hermes Pan .... assistant dance director
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Runtime:
106 min
Country:
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor System)
Certification:

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Lucille Ball, who appears uncredited in this film as a fashion model, would later buy RKO, the studio that made this film. At the height of their success during "I Love Lucy" (1951), she and Desi Arnaz purchased it and renamed it Desilu Studios. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: When John Kent arrives in Paris and goes to the building where Roberta lives, the doorman tells him that she is on the "troisième étage " and indicates that John should press the corresponding button. John is eventually taken to Roberta on the third floor, which is incorrect since the "troisième étage " corresponds to the fourth floor. In France, the "premiere étage" (first floor) is not the ground floor but the next one up. more
Quotes:
Huckleberry Haines: How long ya gonna stay?
Sophie Teale: Oh hello, Huckleberry.
Huckleberry Haines: Hello, Soph.
Sophie Teale: Mother and I are going to Switzerland on Saturday.
Huckleberry Haines: Goodbye, John, I'll see ya Sunday.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "You Bet Your Life: (#6.8)" (1955) more
Soundtrack:
Lovely to Look At more

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22 out of 27 people found the following comment useful.
Another Underrated Musical, 5 April 2006
8/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

I found this to be a very entertaining musical with some decent mixture of songs, comedy and romance. There are no less than three leading ladies and they all look good. Two of them are big names: Irene Dunne and Ginger Rogers.

There's Fred Astaire in here, too, so I guess we can call this another "Astaire- Rogers film." If so, I think it's one of their best and certainly one of their most underrated. You don't hear much about this movie, and that's unfair.

Rogers and Astaire both have some funny lines in this film and I wish Ginger's role had been bigger. She and Astaire do a couple of tap dance numbers that are excellent - some of their best work together. Dunne's first two songs aren't bad but you have the rest. Her soprano voice almost broke my eardrums, especially with "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."

Randolph Scott, Helen Westley and Claire Dodd also star in this dated-but-generally fun movie.

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