Roberta
by William A. Seiter
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Actor: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Westley, Irene Dunne, Randolph ScottDirector: William A. Seiter
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Roberta
Movie Review: fun movie/musical
Summary: 5 Stars
DVD arrived promtly and is in great shape. Fun movie, but about all those furs the ladies were wearing-ugh.
Summary of Roberta
Fun's in fashion when Fred, Ginger, Irene Dunn and Randolph Scott enter the world of Paris fashions. Marvelous Jerome Kern music graces standards like Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and I Won't Dance.When Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and his jazz band of Wabash Indianians find themselves stuck in Paris without a paying gig, it's up to his buddy John (Randolph Scott) to appeal to his aunt, the legendary dressmaker Roberta (Helen Westley), for help. He also finds a Russian princess (Irene Dunne) working in the shop and a down-home American girl (Ginger Rogers) masquerading as a Polish countess because it's the best way to get a singing job. Roberta was the third RKO collaboration between Astaire and Rogers, and it's one of the more tepid, with too much time spent on 1930s Parisian fashion and the romance between Dunne and Scott. Dunne gets top billing and the best Jerome Kern ballads ("Yesterdays," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"), but as the second-banana couple Astaire and Rogers still get a tap battle, a romantic duet, and plenty of comic banter. In short, the Fred and Ginger magic is there, but not nearly enough of it. For more, watch the films immediately preceding and succeeding, The Gay Divorcee and Top Hat. --David Horiuchi
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