#lyda roberti

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Charles Halton, Lyda Roberti, Tom Dugan, Jack Haley, Rosina Lawrence, Mischa Auer, Patsy Kelly, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on the set of Pick a Star (1937)

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lyda roberti, 1932

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Lyda Roberti, The Avalon Four, "Sweet and Hot/Broadway Rhythm"

Have movies been this charming since the '30s? I daresay not. From 1937's Nobody's Baby.

Roberti a terrific song'n'dance entertainer with plenty of personality. A weak heart ended her life at 31, tragically. I've enjoyed her in everything I've seen.

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Actress and singer Lyda Roberti

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Three Cornered Moon (1933) Elliott Nugent

December 4th 2022

[jwclapton]

I've been tagged by @modernmanblues to pick a song for each letter of my URL, then tag as many people to do the same. Thanks, Liz!

Just What the Doctor Ordered – Ted Nugent

Wenn die Sonne hinter den Dächern versinkt – Pola Negri

Cuddle Up a Little Closer – Betty Grable

Lady Writer – Dire Straits

Always – Deanna Durbin

Pictures of Lily – The Who

Take a Number from One to Ten – Lyda Roberti

On This Highway – Studebaker John & the Hawks

Nu quarto e luna – Pier Angeli

I tag @baldwinpdf, @bogarde, @norashelley, @picklesandolives, @pierangelis, @screenclassics, @shedreamsintechnicolor (good luck), @teamliberty, and @tolstoyscat to try their hands at this. Have fun!

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Susan Fleming, Jack Oakie, and W.C. Fields in Million Dollar Legs

W.C. Fields and Margaret Dumont in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 

Million Dollar Legs (Edward F. Cline, 1932)

Cast: Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Susan Fleming, Ben Turpin, Hugh Herbert, George Barbier, Dickie Moore. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Henry Myers. Cinematography: Arthur L. Todd.

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Edward F. Cline, 1941)

Cast: W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Dumont, Susan Miller, Leon Errol, Jody Gilbert, Irving Bacon, Mona Barrie, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown, Minerva Urecal. Screenplay: John T. Neville, Prescott Chaplin, W.C. Fields (as Otis Criblecoblis). Cinematography: Charles Van Enger. Art direction: Jack Otterson. Film editing: Arthur Hilton. Music: Frank Skinner, Charles Previn.

Was ever man so troubled by his hats? Million Dollar Legs and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break bracket W.C. Fields's career as a movie star (discounting his appearances in short subjects and in supporting roles in silent films and early talkies), and both begin with him struggling to manage a hat. It's a top hat in the earlier film, and it insists on having its own way, culminating in a familiar Fieldsian bit in which it rides behind him on the tip of his walking stick. In the later film, it's a straw boater whose lid comes to grief. Fields had crafted these hat tricks in vaudeville, and they remain one of the most endearing aspects of a potentially unlovable personality. Fields always managed to triumph over his own persona: Although Sucker finds him repellent in aspect, the broken veins of his nose and face unconcealable by any makeup artist, you can't help understanding why Gloria Jean, in an odd curtain line, proclaims her love for him. Both films are the apotheoses of the kind of sublime lunacy that emerged from his imagination, the former a surreal take on the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the latter an assault on the movie studios that tried (and usually failed) to stifle that imagination. Although Fields was surrounded in both films with superb comic talent -- Jack Oakie, Andy Clyde, Ben Turpin, Hugh Herbert, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Dumont, Leon Errol -- they are dominated by him, braving it out through all reversals of fortune that may come his way. The greatest film comedians -- Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin, the Marxes -- were similarly indomitable. The climax of Sucker is a spectacular car and firetruck chase that owes more to the direction of Edward F. Cline, veteran of the golden age of silent slapstick comedy, than to Fields, but we shall never see his like again.

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Lyda Roberti - My Cousin In Milwaukee - 1933.

This may actually be Gertrude Niesen singing this Gershwin piece being performed by the Eddy Duchin Orchestra.

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Three-Cornered Moon (1933) dir. Elliott Nugent

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ACTRESSES BORN IN 1906

Louise Brooks

Thelma Todd

Jeanette Loff

Lyda Roberti

Noel Francis

Greta Nissen

Lilian Harvey

Janet Gaynor

Mary Astor

Joan Blondell

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Lyda Roberti (1932)

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Lyda Roberti     Ruth Hall  

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lyda roberti in million dollar legs

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Eddie Cantor-Lyda Roberti "Torero a la fuerza" (The kid from Spain) 1932, de Leo McCarey.

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