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Overview. Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job.
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Oct 31, 2014 · But way back in the 1930s, Paramount loaned Scott to RKO for two Astaire-Rogers musicals, Roberta (1935) and Follow the Fleet (1936). In both films, Scott plays Astaire’s handsome, goofy best buddy. Roberta was based on a 1933 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller.
Roberta, the third feature starring dream team Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, suffers mainly from a dearth of, well, Fred and Ginger.They are shamefully sequestered to two dance numbers together (with Fred getting a solo bit), while failed opera singer-turned-movie star Irene Dunne performs four full-length quasi-operatic songs replete with static closeups for minutes at a time.
8/10. Beautiful Jerome Kern musical. blanche-2 14 March 2009. Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott shine in "Roberta," a 1935 film directed by William Seite, based on the Broadway play, with music by Jerome Kern This isn't a typical Astaire-Rogers film, so if you're looking for that, you may be disappointed.
Roberta is a 1935 musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of a 1933 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. It was a solid hit, showing a net profit of more than three-quarters of a million dollars.
