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Occupation
  
Actress, singer

Albums
  
Ladies of Hollywood 1930s

Spouse
  
Bud Ernest (m. 1935–1938)


Role
  
Film actress

Name
  
Lyda Roberti

Siblings
  
Manya Roberti

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Born
  
May 20, 1906 (
1906-05-20
)

Died
  
March 12, 1938, Glendale, California, United States

Movies
  
The Kid from Spain, Million Dollar Legs, Nobody's Baby, Torch Singer, Pick a Star

Similar People
  
George Gershwin, Mae West, Ethel Merman, Edward F Cline, Alexander Hall

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Lyda Roberti (May 20, 1906 – March 12, 1938) was a Russian-born American stage and film actress, and singer.

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Life and career

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Born in Warsaw, then part of Imperial Russia, Lyda Roberti was the daughter of a German father and a Polish mother. Her father was a professional clown. As a child she performed in the circus as a trapeze artist, and was a vaudeville singer. As her family toured Europe and Asia, Roberti's mother left her husband, and in order to escape the upheaval in Russia after the Communist revolution, they settled in Shanghai, China where the younger Roberti earned money singing. They moved to the United States in the late 1920s, and Roberti began singing in nightclubs. One of Lyda's siblings was actress Manya Roberti (born c. 1907), who later disappeared from show business. Manya, whose dates of birth and death are unknown, is believed to have married an American, Irvin Russell Deibert, on November 8, 1924 in Shanghai, China; the couple had at least one child, a daughter, Lorraine Deibert, later Mrs. Lorraine Bass (1926–1996).

Lyda made her Broadway debut in You Said It in 1931, and with its success became an overnight sensation. During her run with the show, she was nicknamed "Broadway's preferred Polish blonde". Historian Edward Jablonski found that "much of her appeal to the audiences at the time was due to her Polish accent" and cited instances where her pronunciation of certain consonants would "stir audiences to gales of laughter." She also appeared in the short-lived Gershwin musical Pardon My English in 1933. She moved to Hollywood and during the 1930s played in a string of films. Her sexy but playful characterisations, along with the unusual accent she had acquired during her years in Europe and Asia, made her popular with audiences.

She starred in Edward F. Cline's comedy, Million Dollar Legs (1932) as "Mata Machree, The Woman No Man Can Resist", a Mata Hari-based spy character who is hired to undermine the President of Klopstokia (played by W. C. Fields) in his efforts to secure money for his destitute country. Her plan is to seduce the athletes that Klopstokia is sending to the Olympic Games, and thereby prevent them from medaling. Highlights of the film include Mata Machree's steamy rendition of "When I Get Hot in Klopstokia", and the dance she performs to inspire Fields's opponent in the weightlifting competition.

In the film version of Roberta, Ginger Rogers played the role that Roberti had originated on Broadway. Roberti had replaced Thelma Todd in a couple of films after Todd's death, but Roberti's own health was failing due to heart disease. She began to work less frequently although two days before her death she performed a radio show with Al Jolson.

Personal life

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On June 25, 1935, Roberti married aviator Bud Ernst in Yuma, Arizona.

Death

According to her friend and co-star Patsy Kelly, Roberti died suddenly at age 31 from a heart attack while bending to tie her shoelace. At the time of her death, she was still married to Ernst. She is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Recordings

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Roberti found success as a comedian, and was also popular as a singer on radio. She made few known recordings, including:

  • Sweet And Hot (TCL-1461) 3-10-31 - (Brunswick private unissued recording)
  • Ha Ha Ho! (TCL-1462) 3-10-31 - (Brunswick private unissued recording)
  • My Cousin In Milwaukee 1/26/33 (radio broadcast)
  • Take A Number From One To Ten (LA-227) 10-5-34 (Columbia 2967-D)
  • College Rhythm (LA-228) 10-5-34 (Columbia 2967-D)
  • Short Subjects

  • Undersea Revue (1928)
  • Hollywood Rhythm (1934)
  • At Sea Ashore (1936)
  • Hill-Tillies (1936)
  • Filmography

    Actress
    1938
    Wide Open Faces as
    Kitty Fredericks
    1937
    Pick a Star as
    Dagmar
    1937
    Nobody's Baby as
    Lena Marchetti
    1936
    Hill-Tillies (Short) as
    Lyda Roberti
    1936
    At Sea Ashore (Short) as
    Lyda Roberti
    1935
    The Big Broadcast of 1936 as
    Countess Ysobel de Naigila
    1935
    George White's 1935 Scandals as
    Manya
    1934
    College Rhythm as
    Mimi
    1933
    Meet the Baron as
    College Girl (uncredited)
    1933
    Torch Singer as
    Dora Nichols
    1933
    Three Cornered Moon as
    Jenny
    1932
    The Kid from Spain as
    Rosalie
    1932
    Million Dollar Legs as
    Mata Machree
    1932
    Dancers in the Dark as
    Fanny Zabowolski
    1928
    Undersea Revue (Short)
    Soundtrack
    1982
    Hooray for Hollywood (Documentary) (performer: "Take a Number from One to Ten")
    1969
    Mondo Trasho (performer: "Take a Number From One to Ten")
    1937
    Nobody's Baby (performer: "I Wanna Dance")
    1936
    At Sea Ashore (Short) (performer: "Sweet and Hot", "Broadway Rhythm" - uncredited)
    1935
    The Big Broadcast of 1936 (performer: "Double Trouble")
    1935
    George White's 1935 Scandals (performer: "I Got Shoes, You Got Shoesies" (1935), "Hunkadola" (1935) - uncredited)
    1934
    College Rhythm (performer: "Take a Number from One to Ten", "College Rhythm")
    1934
    Hollywood Rhythm (Short) (performer: "College Rhythm", "Take a Number from One to Ten")
    1932
    The Kid from Spain ("What a Perfect Combination" (1932), uncredited) / (performer: "Look What You've Done" (1932) - uncredited)
    1932
    Million Dollar Legs (performer: "It's Terrific (When I Get Hot)" (1932) - uncredited)
    1928
    The Roof Garden Revue (Short) (performer: "It Was the Dawn of Love" - uncredited)
    Self
    1934
    Hollywood Rhythm (Short) as
    Self
    1928
    The Roof Garden Revue (Short) as
    Self
    Archive Footage
    1982
    Hooray for Hollywood (Documentary) as
    Self

    References

    Lyda Roberti Wikipedia