In this adaptation of alice duer millers novel gowns by roberta, irene dunne plays a deposed white russian princess who has become a. Roberta is een amerikaanse muziekfilm uit 1935 onder regie van william a. Telecharger roberta film complet en francais vf hd 1935. Roberta 1935 was a step backward, with too much time spent on 1930s parisian fashion and the romance between topbilled irene dunne who gets the best jerome kern ballads, yesterdays and smoke gets in your eyes and randolph scott. U glavnim ulogama nastupaju irene dunne, fred astaire, ginger rogers i randolph scott. It was an adaptation of a 1933 broadway musical roberta, which in turn was based on the novel gowns by roberta by alice duer miller. Whereas in many 1935 films its blatantly obvious that the code took out a lot of the films wit, roberta doesnt suffer at all. Thetwo had scored with a novelty number, the carioca, in flyingdown to rio 1933, in which they only played supporting roles. Roberta 1935 comedy, drama, musical, romance feature irene dunne, fred astaire, ginger rogers. The film wins for its service to the society at the time as well as its prizes for quality art.
Roberta the leastseen and appreciated of the magical astairerogers series at rko, this now seems, along with top hat and swing time, one of the three wonder films of the series. Roberta was created on broadway during the era before cast albums, and its subsequent film versions rkos astairerogers treatment in 1935 and mgms lovely to look at 1952 differ markedly from the original. An apr 1935 hr news item referred to roberta as rkos biggest drawing card and noted that the film broke box office records everywhere it had played. In both films, scott plays astaires handsome, goofy best buddy. The broadway version of gowns by roberta, upon which this movie is based, boasted a cast which included fred macmurray, bob hope and sydney greenstreet, which must have been something to see, but rko filled the movie with an equally stellar cast including fred astaire and ginger rogers in their third pairing, irene dunne and randolph scott, who smokes a pipe and says gee, thats. The stage version of roberta was written by jerome kern music and otto harbach book and lyrics and premiered november 18, 1933, just months after the publication of millers book and the film was shot from november 26, 1934 to january 21, 1935, ed february 26, 1935 and premiered march 9, 1935 yet another indication of how much faster properties moved from page to stage to. Roberta 1935 film complet en francais film complet francais.
Roberta is a musical from 1933 with music by jerome kern, and lyrics and book by otto harbach. After the movie was movie and seen for some time, it was put in the vault never to be seen. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this wikipedia article constitutes fair use. Like flying down to rio, roberta is a film in which fred astaire and ginger rogers play supporting roles but provide the real highlights of the film. In paris, excouple huck fred astaire and lizzie ginger rogers, here dropping her polish countess routine remember old times and dance a reprise of the song by jerome kern, otto harbach and bernard dougall, in roberta, 1935 view the tcmdb entry for roberta 1935. But way back in the 1930s, paramount loaned scott to rko for two astairerogers musicals, roberta 1935 and follow the fleet 1936. With irene dunne, fred astaire, ginger rogers, randolph scott. The third astairerogers film is a silky adaptation of the 1933 broadway hit whose original cast included bob hope, sydney greenstreet and fred macmurray. Then thestudio tried them out together as stars in the gay divorcee 1934,adapted from astaires stage hit. Roberta was based on a 1933 broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the novel gowns by roberta by alice duer miller. Roberta is a 1935 american musical film by rko starring irene dunne, fred astaire, ginger rogers, and randolph scott.
Rogers returned for in person 1935, an amusing satire of the movie industry. This is not to slight the films female star, irene dunne, who turns in a good, stylish performance and sounds wonderful when singing a rueful smoke gets in your eyes and a charming lovely. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion. Roberta 1935 after three films together, fred astaire and ginger rogers officiallybecame a team in roberta 1935, an adaptation of the hit broadway musical. From roberta 1935 starring irene dunne, fred astaire and ginger rogers. Roberta is one of fred astaires and ginger rogerss first films together. Jan 19, 2014 vintage hollywood designer who designed famous feather dress for top hat movie with fred astaire and ginger rogers. In this adaptation of alice duer millers novel gowns by roberta, irene dunne plays a deposed white russian princess who has become a famed parisian couturier. But as the secondbanana couple astaire and rogers still get a tap battle, a romantic duet, and plenty of. Its also a film full of interesting historical perspectives, from emigre russian aristocrats in paris, to astaires aspersions against the outfits hes supposed to be. Lobby card for roberta showing stars fred astaire, ginger rogers, and randolph scott. In fact, its one of the best musicals ive seen, despite the few. It was a solid hit, showing a net profit of more than threequarters of a million dollars.
Rent roberta 1935 starring irene dunne and fred astaire on dvd and bluray. Subcategories this category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. The musical is based on the novel gowns by roberta by alice duer miller. Roberta 1935 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Seiter, irene dunne, fred astaire, ginger rogers july 15, 2015 football player john kent tags along as huck haines and the wabash indianians travel to an engagement in paris, only to lose it immediately. Fred astaire full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Roberta 1935 film complet en francais a 20170829t20. Top hat 1935 is one of the great 30s dance musicals, and possibly the best, most characteristic and most profitable astaire and rogers musical ever, with wonderful, magical dance and song numbers with straighton, fulllength views of the dancers without a lot of camera cuts or unusual camera angles. This was the third astairerogers film to ever be made, and the musical number lovely to look at was nominated for a best song oscar in 1935. He cowrote the screenplays for a number of fred astaire and ginger rogers films. It features the songs yesterdays, smoke gets in your eyes, lets begin. Stan laurel and oliver hardy made more than 100 comedies together, laurel playing the bumbling and innocent foil to the pompous hardy.
See more ideas about ginger rogers, fred astaire and vintage hollywood. Roberta 1935 comedy, drama, musical, romance feature. Here is i wont dance fred astaire and the piano, then later joined on screen by ginger rogers. Even for musicaltheater buffs, jerome kern and otto harbachs classic hit show roberta 1933 has always retained an air of mystery.
Ginger and fred were back to being second leads in their third film, roberta 1935, sharing billing with irene dunne. Roberta is a great mid30s musical, complete with confirmation in the form of a title card at the very beginning that it has passed the production codes standards. As ive become a huge fan of the freedom of the precodes, this is therefore a bad thing. The film omitted the touch of your hand sung by a minor character, something had to happen, and youre devastating originally middletons big song in the show, but added the kern songs i wont dance and lovely to look at, which became so popular that they are now always included in revivals and recordings of roberta. Johns health center in santa monica, california, at aged 88 allan was the father of actor pippa scott and. Roberta is a 1935 musical film by rko starring irene dunne, fred astaire, ginger rogers, and randolph scott. Roberta is an american film musical directed by william a. Laurel and hardy, comedy team that is widely regarded as the greatest in film history. Seiter, with irene dunne, fred astaire, ginger rogers, at turner classic movies.
Ginger rogers in roberta 1935 fred astaire and ginger rogers in roberta 1935. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for. The best movies of 1935 picked by critics and filmmakers and sorted by rank. Directed by william seiter this comedy musical includes the oscar nominated song lovely to look at though i think the highlight is. Top hat 1935, follow the fleet 1936, swing time 1936, shall we dance 1937, and carefree 1938, as well as roberta 1935, in which they played supporting roles he died on april 1995 at st. Early 1930s movies are full of such terrifically odd moments like this. This edition is designed for customers who already purchased vol. Funs in fashion when fred astaire and ginger rogers plus irene dunne and randolph scott enter the ultrachic parisian world of high fashion in roberta. As with flying down to rio, the plot is somewhat contrived and soon seems repetitious, but this time ginger and fred almost profit from their secondlead status because they are not responsible for keeping the story moving and.
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