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Roberta Overview:

Roberta (1935) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by William A. Seiter and produced by Pandro S. Berman.

The film was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta and also Stage Play written by Alice Duer Miller published in 1933 (novel); Nov 18, 1933 - Jul 21, 1934 (play performed at New Amsterdam Theatre, NY).

Academy Awards 1935 --- Ceremony Number 8 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - SongMusic by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHughNominated
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Roberta Quotes:

Huckleberry Haines: John, everyday you act worse, but today you're acting like tomorrow.
John Kent: You don't appreciate her. I know she seems a little hard and sophisticated, but underneath she's a pearl.
Huckleberry Haines: And a pearl so I'm told, is the result of a chronic irritation on an oyster.
Comtesse Scharwenka: You may call me Tanka.
Huckleberry Haines: Tanka.
Comtesse Scharwenka: You're welcome.
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Roberta Facts
Lucille Ball, an unknown RKO contract player at the time, appears uncredited as a model in a fashion show. She wears a large feather cape, and her hair is bleached platinum blonde.
The third (of ten) dancing partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
The songs "I Won't Dance" and "Lovely to Look At" were not in the original stage production of "Roberta". "I Won't Dance", from the flop Jerome Kern musical "Three Sisters", was inserted into the 1935 film version of "Roberta" to give Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers an extra dance number, and "Lovely to Look At" was especially written for the film to give Irene Dunne a new song to sing. Both songs became so popular, however, that most later revivals of "Roberta", including the remake Lovely to Look at, have included them in the score.
During "I Won't Dance," Ginger Rogers sings to Fred Astaire: "But when you dance you're charming and you're gentle/ Especially when you do the Continental," referring to the dance in their previous film, The Gay Divorcee. The two then strike a pose from that number while the band plays a riff.
RKO sold the rights to "Roberta" to MGM, who remade the film as Lovely to Look at. MGM kept the film "Roberta" out of distribution for many years, as it did not want any competition between the two films.
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