Highest rated movie: Wide Open Faces (1938)
Lowest rated movie: Meet the Baron (1933)
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Looking for reviews of Lyda Roberti movies? Cinafilm has a total of 39 reviews across 7 movies.
Movies starring Lyda Roberti have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
Wide Open Faces - released in 1938 - is Lyda Roberti's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Lyda Roberti is Meet the Baron - released in 1933 - with a score of 49% based on 2 reviews.
Lyda's father was German clown Roberti, her mother a Polish trick rider. As a child performer, she toured Europe and Asia with the Circus in which she was born, leaving it (and her reportedly abusive father) in Shanghai, China. In this truly international city, Lyda became a child cafe entertainer and learned the fractured English that became her trademark. Around 1927, she emigrated to California, finding work in vaudeville, where she was "discovered" in 1930 by Broadway producer Lou Holtz and became an overnight star in his 1931 show 'You Said It'. Lyda's unforgettable stage and screen character was a sexy blonde whose charming accent and uninhibited man-chasing were played for hilarious laughs. From 1932-35 she made 8 comedy and musical films mainly at Paramount, with Fields, Cantor, and other great comedians; her unique singing style was also popular on the radio and records. Her health declining from premature heart disease, she briefly replaced the late Thelma Todd in Hal Roach comedy shorts with Patsy Kelly and appeared in 3 features for MGM and Columbia, then retired from film work a few months before her fatal heart attack at age 31.
Lyda Roberti has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Jane Wyman, Bruce Bennett and Stanley Fields.
Lyda Roberti has worked with these film directors: Leo McCarey, Walter Lang, Kurt Neumann and Edward Sedgwick.
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