Roberta (1935 film)


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 threequarters of a million dollars.

John Kent Randolph Scott, a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines Fred Astaire and the latters dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda Luis Alberni has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana Huck Haines and his Indianians Band.John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie Helen Westley, who owns the fashionable Roberta gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant and secretly the head designer, Stephanie Irene Dunne. John is quickly smitten with her. ........

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