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Auction History Result 7g004 ROBERTA Danish '35 completely different art of Dunne + full-length Astaire & Rogers dancing Date Sold 9/22/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Danish Movie Poster (measures approximately 24" x 33") (Learn More) Roberta, the 1935 William A. Seiter romantic musical comedy ("Jerome Kern's queen of musical romances brought to the screen in a glorious sunburst of song!"; "A heart-load of maddening beauties in gasping gowns... a fortune in furs... a ransom in jewels... in a song-studded romance of Paris in lovetime!"; "Jerome Kern's amazing musical stage success.. Ten times as tantalizing on the screen!"; "The brilliant hit of the music stage... Ten times as tantalizing on the screen!"; "A heart-load of maddening beauties draped in fashion's most ravishing creations... in a dream-drenched story of love time in Paris... told to the magic melodies of Jerome Kern"; "Jerome Kern's glorious musical romance... screened in a heart-warming sunburst of laughter and song... ten times as tantalizing as the sensational stage success!"; "Tingle to these dream-disturbing tunes"; "from the glorious play 'Roberta'"; "Book and Lyrics by Otto Harbach"; about a former Russian Princess who is now a famous Parisian designer, and her partner dies, leaving her half of the business to an American football player, who comes to help run the business, even though he knows nothing about it; Astaire plays a bandleader, and Rogers plays a fake Polish countess who was once Astaire's girlfriend) starring Irene Dunne ("the golden girl with the silver song"), Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers ("America's Dancing Stars"; "The King and Queen of Dance unite in the Empress of Musical Shows!"), Randolph Scott, Helen Westley (in the title role as Roberta), Victor Varconi, Claire Dodd, "and Hollywood's rarest beauties in Oh!... What gorgeous gowns!". Note that this movie was early enough in Astaire & Rogers careers that they are billed under Irene Dunne! Also note that the parts played by Astaire and Rogers were much smaller in the original Broadway production (Astaire's role was played by Bob Hope!), but their parts were expanded for the movie version, and of course, several musical numbers were added. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded across the middle at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. There is some minor wear on the foldlines and some black scuffs scattered in parts of the red figures and in the bottom of the yellow dress. There are creases, tiny tears, and very tiny paper loss in the borders. There is a tiny piece of tape on the back of the bottom border and a piece of brown paper tape on the back of the top left and top right corners (but they were not put there for a restoration purpose). There is a stamp in the bottom center from the Danish censor. Other than the above, the poster is in pretty nice condition, and after a simple linenbacking, it will look fantastic, and it will require little paint restoration (some people choose to restore away censor stamps, but others choose to leave them, because they are part of the history of the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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