Alice Roberts (actress) explained

Alice Roberts
Birth Date:1906 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Belgium
Death Place:Belgium
Occupation:Actress

Alice Roberts (29 July 190629 October 1985) was a Belgian actress active from the late 1920s to the late 1930s.

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.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleInternational title
1932My Priest Among the Rich
1931Le Costaud des PTT
1930La Douceur d'aimerRuzy ValbreuseThe Sweetness of Loving (US) Played by another actress named "Alice Roberts" or "Alice Robert" (1904–2000) - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1312517/ - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roberts -->
1930Quand nous étions deuxLise Daltour
1929Der Narr seiner Liebe
1929Der lustige WitwerAlice DulacThe Merry Widower
1929MeineidInge SperberPerjury
1929Die Büchse der PandoraGräfin Geschwitz - Countess Anna GeschwitzPandora's Box (UK), (US)
1929DétresseDistress
1928Das Schicksal derer von HabsburgLouise of CoburgThe Fate of the House of Habsburg
1928La femme rêvéeAn Ideal Woman (English title)
1928L'île d'amourLa nurseIsland of Love (English title)
1928Miss Édith, duchesseMiss Edith, Duchess (English title)

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.today/20120723230700/http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/54/brooks.htm Biodata
  2. Sutton . Kate . Female masculinity in Weimar cinema . Traffic . 2004 . 4 . 27+ . 26 December 2020.