Roberta

Year: 1935

Production Country: USA

Directed by William A. Seiter
Featuring Irene Dunne / Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers

Stills (5)

Romance of a jazz musician stranded in Paris and a childhood girlfriend who runs a successful dress shop.

Cast & credits

Cast

Princess Stephanie Irene Dunne
Huckleberry 'Hank' Haines Fred Astaire
Ct'ss Tanka Scharwenka - née Lizzie Gatz Ginger Rogers
John Kent Randolph Scott
Roberta - Aunt Minnie Helen Westley
Ladislaw Victor Varconi
Sophie Teale Claire Dodd
Alexander Petrovich Moscovich Voyda Luis Alberni
Lord Henry Delves Ferdinand Munier
Albert Torben Meyer
professor Adrian Rosley
Fernande Bodil Rosing
[girl in salon] Lucille Ball
[model] Maxine Jennings
[model] Jane Hamilton
[model] Wanda Perry
[model] Virginia Carroll
[model] Diane Cook
[model] Donna Mae Roberts
[model] Margaret McCrystal
[model] Kay Sutton
[model] Virginia Reid
[model] Betty Dumbries
[model] Lorraine Desart
[.] William B. Davidson
[.] Mary Forbes
[.] Charlotte Russell
[orchestra member] Candy Candido
[orchestra member] Maurice Marcellino
[orchestra member] Hal Borne
[orchestra member] Paul Mclarand
[orchestra member] Charles Sharpe
[orchestra member] Phil Cuthbert
[orchestra member] William Dunn
[orchestra member] Delmon Davis
[orchestra member] Ivan Dow

Credits

Direction

Director William A. Seiter
[Assistant Director] Edward Killy
[Assistant Director] Sam White
[Assistant Director] C.C. Thompson
[Assistant Director] Kenneth Holmes
[Assistant Director (2nd)] Argyle Nelson

Production

Production Company RKO Radio Pictures
Producer Pandro S. Berman
Production Associate Zion Myers
[Production Manager] C.J. White
[Research] Elizabeth Mcgaffey

Writing

Screenplay Jane Murfin
Screenplay Sam Mintz
Screenplay Allan Scott
[Contributor to Treatment] Dorothy Yost
Additional Dialogue Glenn Tryon
From the Musical by Otto Harbach
Adapted from Novel 'Gowns by Roberta' by Alice D.G. Miller

Photography

Cinematography Edward Cronjager
[Camera] Robert De Grasse

Editing

Editor William Hamilton

Design

Art Director Van Nest Polglase
Associate Art Director Carroll Clark
Set Dresser Thomas Little

Costumes

Costumes Bernard Newman

Music

Music Jerome Kern
Lyrics Otto Harbach
Lyrics Dorothy Fields
Music Director Max Steiner

Sound

Music Recording P.J. Faulkner
Recording John Tribby

Choreography

Dance Director Hermes Pan
Choreography Fred Astaire

Stunts

[Stand-in] Ruth Day
[Stand-in] Marie Osborne
[Stand-in] Harry Cornbleth
[Stand-in] James Baker