Roberta
by William A. Seiter
List Price:
Our Price: $17.99
You Save: $1.99 (10%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $2.73 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Westley, Irene Dunne, Randolph ScottDirector: William A. Seiter
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Alice Duer Miller
Writer: Allan Scott
Writer: Dorothy Yost
Writer: Glenn Tryon
Writer: Jane Murfin
Writer: Jerome Kern
Writer: Otto A. Harbach
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, 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: Another Underrated Musical
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this to be a very entertaining musical with some decent mixture of songs, comedy and romance. There are no less than three leading ladies and they all look good. Two of them are big names: Irene Dunne and Ginger Rogers.
There's Fred Astaire in here, too, so I guess we can call this another "Astaire-Rogers film." If so, I think it's one of their best and certainly one of their most underrated. You don't hear much about this movie, and that's unfair.
Rogers and Astaire both have some funny lines in this film and I wish Ginger's role had been bigger. She and Astaire do a couple of tap dance numbers that are excellent - some of their best work together. Dunne's first two songs aren't bad but you have the rest. Her soprano voice almost broke my eardrums, especially with "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."
Randolph Scott, Helen Westley and Claire Dodd also star in this dated-but-generally fun movie.
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
Comedy DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in 1935 Academy Award Winners & Nominees on DVD & VHS
A Night at the OperaWarner Brothers; Release date: 2004-05-04; DVD
Best price: $11.81
Price in other shops:
Motion Picture Masterpieces Collection (David Copperfield 1935 / Marie Antoinette 1938 / Pride and Prejudice 1940 / A Tale of Two Cities 1935 / Treasure Island 1934)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2006-10-10; DVD
Best price: $35.35
Price in other shops:
Walt Disney Treasures - Silly SymphoniesRelease date: 2001-12-04; DVD
Best price: $67.77
Walt Disney Treasures - More Silly Symphonies (1929-1938)Release date: 2006-12-19; DVD
Best price: $28.15
Price in other shops:
![I Dream Too Much [VHS] Image](/images/noimg.gif)
I Dream Too Much [VHS]Turner Home Entertainment; Release date: 1989-09-27; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $51.00
Go Into Your Dance - Movie PosterPopcorn Movie Poster Co.; Popcorn Movie Poster Co.; Kitchen
Price in other shops:
The Bride of FrankensteinUniversal; Release date: 1999-10-19; DVD
Best price: $10.50
Price in other shops:
RobertaWarner Brothers; Release date: 2006-10-24; DVD
Best price: $4.18
Price in other shops:
She (Deluxe Two Disc Edition)Release date: 2007-08-21; DVD
Best price: $14.97
Price in other shops:
The Busby Berkeley Collection (Footlight Parade / Gold Diggers of 1933 / Dames / Gold Diggers of 1935 / 42nd Street)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2006-03-21; DVD
Best price: $39.00
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
The Barkleys of BroadwayWarner Brothers; Release date: 2005-08-16; DVD
Best price: $2.13
Price in other shops:
The Story of Vernon and Irene CastleWarner Brothers; Release date: 2006-10-24; DVD
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops:
You Were Never LovelierSony; Release date: 2004-05-25; DVD
Best price: $8.31
Price in other shops:
Top HatRelease date: 2005-08-16; DVD
Best price: $11.63
Price in other shops:
Shall We DanceWarner Brothers; Release date: 2005-08-16; DVD
Best price: $9.93
Price in other shops:
Swing TimeWarner Brothers; Release date: 2005-08-16; DVD
Best price: $10.74
Price in other shops:
Follow the FleetTurner; Release date: 2005-08-16; DVD
Best price: $4.94
Price in other shops:
Flying Down to RioWarner Brothers; Release date: 2006-10-24; DVD
Best price: $3.95
Price in other shops:
The Gay DivorceeTURNER HM ENTERTAINM; Release date: 2006-10-24; DVD
Best price: $9.78
Price in other shops:
CarefreeTurner; Release date: 2006-10-24; DVD
Best price: $4.92
Price in other shops: