Alice Roberts (actress)

Alice Roberts (29 July 1906 – 29 October 1985) was a Belgian actress active from the late 1920s to the late 1930s.

Alice Roberts
Born(1906-07-29)29 July 1906
Died29 October 1985(1985-10-29) (aged 79)
Belgium
OccupationActress

She may be best-remembered in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's silent German film Pandora's Box (1929). The film was memorable due to the overt lesbian overtures between Roberts' character, the Countess Geschwitz, and Louise Brooks's character, Lulu.[1] Some scholars count her performance "one of the first cinematic representations not only of lesbian desire, but of an explicitly queer female masculinity."[2]

The film was based on Frank Wedekind's plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box.

Alice Roberts died in 1985, aged 79, in Belgium.[citation needed]

Filmography

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Year Title Role International title
1932 My Priest Among the Rich
1931 Le Costaud des PTT
1930 Quand nous étions deux Lise Daltour
1929 Der Narr seiner Liebe
1929 Der lustige Witwer Alice Dulac The Merry Widower
1929 Meineid Inge Sperber Perjury
1929 Die Büchse der Pandora Gräfin Geschwitz - Countess Anna Geschwitz Pandora's Box (UK), (US)
1929 Détresse Distress
1928 Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg Louise of Coburg The Fate of the House of Habsburg
1928 La femme rêvée An Ideal Woman (English title)
1928 L'île d'amour La nurse Island of Love (English title)
1928 Miss Édith, duchesse Miss Edith, Duchess (English title)

References

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  1. ^ Biodata
  2. ^ Sutton, Kate (2004). "Female masculinity in Weimar cinema". Traffic (4): 27+. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
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