Lyda Roberti
Birthday
1906/05/20
Day of death
1938/12/03 (32 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
Also know as
Lyda Pecjak
Biography
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1933) Torch Singer
as Dora Nichols
(1933) Three-Cornered Moon
as Jenny
(1937) Pick a Star
as Dagmar
(1932) The Kid from Spain
as Rosalie
(1932) Million Dollar Legs
as Mata Machree
(1937) Nobody's Baby
as Lena Marchetti
(1935) The Big Broadcast of 1936
as Countess Ysobel de Naigila
(1935) George White's 1935 Scandals
as Manya
(1938) Wide Open Faces
as Kitty Fredericks
(1932) Dancers in the Dark
as Fanny Zabowolski
(1929) The Roof Garden Revue
as Herself
(1936) At Sea Ashore
as Lyda Roberti
(1936) Hill-Tillies
as Lyda Roberti
(1933) Meet the Baron
as College Girl (uncredited)
(1934) College Rhythm
as Mimi
(1934) Hollywood Rhythm
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