What is "roberta"

Roberta is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The musical is based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. It features the songs " Yesterdays", " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", " Let's Begin", "You're Devastating", "Something Had To Happen", "The Touch of Your Hand" and " I'll Be Hard to Handle".

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.

The film kept the famous songs " Yesterdays", "Let's Begin" (with altered lyrics), and " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from the play, along with a fourth song, " I'll Be Hard to Handle". Three songs from the play were dropped — "The Touch of Your Hand", "Something Had To Happen" and "You're Devastating". Two songs were added to this film, " I Won't Dance" (lifted from the flop Kern show Three Sisters) and "Lovely to Look At", which both became #1 hits in 1935. The latter addition was nominated for the Best Song Oscar. The songs "I Won't Dance" and "Lovely to Look At" have remained so popular that they are now almost always included in revivals and recordings of Roberta.

Roberta is the third Astaire-Rogers film, and the only one to be remade with other actors. MGM did so in 1952, entitling the new Technicolor version Lovely to Look At. Indeed, with an eye to a remake, MGM bought Roberta in 1945, keeping it out of general circulation until the 1970s.

Roberta is a 1933 Broadway musical.

Roberta may also refer to:

• Roberta (given name)

In entertainment:

• Roberta (1935 film), an adaptation of the Broadway play starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Roberta (1951 film), a Filipino film directed by Olive la Torre and starring Tessie Agana
• Roberta (1979 film), a Filipino film starring Julie Vega
• Roberta (album), by Roberta Flack
• "Roberta," a song performed by Lead Belly
• "Roberta", song by Peppino di Capri

Places:

• Roberta, Georgia, a city
• Roberta, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• 335 Roberta, a large asteroid

Other uses:

• Roberta's (pizzeria), a Brooklyn, New York, pizzeria

Roberta is Roberta Flack's fourteenth album, released in 1994. It consists of cover versions of jazz and soul standards. It was also her final album for Atlantic Records after twenty five years with the label since her debut.

Roberta may refer to:

• Roberta Bonanomi, Italian road racing cyclist
• Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut
• Roberta de Brito, of the Brazilian song and dance duo Chico & Roberta
• Roberta Flack, American jazz and folk singer
• Roberta Knie (born 1938), American dramatic soprano
• Roberta Martin (1907–1969), American gospel composer, singer, pianist, arranger and choral organizer
• Roberta Peters (born 1930), opera coloratura soprano
• Roberta Pinotti (born 1961), Italian politician
• Roberta Tubbs, fictional character on the U.S. TV series The Cleveland Show
• Roberta Vinci, Italian tennis player
• Rosarita "Roberta" Cisneros, fictional character from the anime and manga series Black Lagoon

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