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Auction History Result p017 ROBERTA half-sheet movie poster '35 Astaire & Rogers, Irene Dunne Date Sold 10/18/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (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 the one-sheet poster for this movie is dominated by a huge headshot of Irene Dunne, and while this half-sheet still has a large image of Dunne, the central part of the poster is devoted to a classic image of Astaire dipping Rogers, and is THE poster to own from this movie! Condition: fine. This poster was paperbacked and during the backing process, its extremely minor defects were repaired and it now looks really great! We only assigned this grade ("fine") to posters that were in really excellent condition prior to paperbacking, AND which were paperbacked by a top professional! The poster was folded once horizontally and once vertically and also had all four of its borders folded over. There is yet another vertical fold 2" from the left border. The poster had creases along all these foldlines, and there were scattered creases throughout the image. There were some smudge marks in the solid blue area across the top right of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was well backed, and during the paperbacking process, the above defects were greatly minimized. They are still slightly noticeable from a distance, but they are not particularly distracting. Learn More about condition grades 
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