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Roberta [videocording (DVD)].

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Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2006.

Fashion -- France -- Paris -- Drama.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videocording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

From the play Roberta by Otto Harbach and the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller; adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.

"Special features: Vintage musical short "Starlit days at the Lido"; Classic cartoon "The calico dragon"; Audio-only bonus: "Hollywood on the air" radio promo; Theatrical trailer"--Container.

"Jerome Kern's queen of musical romances"--Container.

In English with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Radio Pictures presents a Pandro S. Berman production ; screen play by Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz and Allan Scott ; directed by William A. Seiter ; music, Jerome Kern ; book and lyrics, Otto Harbach ; additional lyrics, Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh ; musical director, Max Steiner ; music recorded by P.J. Faulkner, Jr. ; gowns, Bernard Newman ; dances arranged by Fred Astaire.

Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Claire Dodd, Victor Varconi.

"A sparkling musical lovely to look at and delightful to know. Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunn and Randolph Scott) enter the ultra chic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta. The third Astaire/Rogers film is a silky adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit (whose original cast included Bob Hope, Sydney Greenstreet and Fred MacMurray). It features a jaunty romantic plot, fabulous sets (the three-level saloon required the world's largest camera crane), memorable music (including Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) and above all, incomparable dance magic to match the score. "The most important moments in Roberta," Time reported, "arrive when Astaire and Rogers turn the story upside down and dance on it." Astaire may sing I Won't Dance. But his feet betray him"--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Seiter, William A., 1892-1964.

Dunne, Irene, 1898-1990

Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995

Scott, Randolph, 1898-1987.

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945.

Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963.

Steiner, Max, 1888-1971.

Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963. Roberta Film adaptations.

Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942. Gowns by Roberta Film adaptations.

RKO Radio Pictures

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