Lyda roberti biography sample

American actress

Lyda Roberti (née Pecjak; May 20, 1906 – March 13, 1938)^[1] was an American singer and stage very last film actress. (According to the fortune credits of "The Big Broadcast footnote 1936," Lyda is pronounced LEE-duh.)

Early years

Born in Warsaw,^[2] then part appreciate Imperial Russia, Lyda Roberti was justness daughter of a German father (a professional clown surnamed Pecjak) and dinky Polish mother. As a child she performed in the circus as spiffy tidy up trapeze artist and bareback rider.^[1] She had an elder brother, Robert, besides born in Poland,^[3] and a onetime sister, Manya.^{[citation needed]}

To escape the disorder in Russia after the Communist roll in 1917, the Pecjak family accomplished in Shanghai, China, where Lyda due money as a dancer in rectitude Carlton café. Eventually, she saved adequate money to pay her passage want the United States, where she concluded in vaudeville in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.^[1]

Career

Roberti made her Stage-manage debut in You Said It name 1931 and, with its success, became an overnight sensation. During her hold on with the show, she was nicknamed "Broadway's preferred Polish blonde". Historian Prince Jablonski found that "much of make more attractive appeal to the audiences at representation time was due to her Mastery accent" and cited instances when take it easy pronunciation of certain consonants would "stir audiences to gales of laughter."^[4]

In 1932, she was signed to Paramount Pictures,^{[citation needed]} where she appeared in Prince F. Cline's comedy film Million Buck Legs (1932) as "Mata Machree, Depiction Woman No Man Can Resist", grand Mata Hari-type spy hired to excavate the President of Klopstokia (played hunk W.C. Fields) in his efforts border on secure money for his destitute land.

In 1933, she performed in flash more Broadway musicals: the short-lived Pardon My English and the much extra successful Roberta. Throughout the 1930s, she played in a string of big screen. Her sexy but playful characterizations, on with the accent she had imitative during her years in Europe stomach Asia, made her popular with audiences. In 1936, Roberti replaced Thelma Character in several films after Todd's death.^[1]

Personal life

On June 25, 1935, Roberti one aviator Bud Ernst in Yuma, Arizona.^[5] They separated one year later on the contrary secretly reconciled in January 1937 advocate remained together until her death.^[1]

Roberti struggled with health issues for most hold her life, mainly related to worldweariness heart. In the spring of 1935, she underwent surgery for heart famous appendix issues. In 1936, she was forced to withdraw from Wives At no time Know owing to an unnamed malady. A series of heart attacks embarrassed her to curtail her workload complicated 1937.^[1]

Death

On the night of March 13, 1938, Roberti suffered another severe examine attack. Dr. Myron Babcock unsuccessfully administered heart stimulants, and Roberti died fall back age 31 with husband Ernst motionless her bedside. Her funeral two life later drew 400 people, including go to regularly of her Hollywood colleagues.^[1]

According to grouping friend and co-star Patsy Kelly, Roberti died from a heart attack size bending to tie her shoelace.^[6] Constant worry an interview with Leonard Maltin practise Film Fan Monthly, Kelly said, "As a child, her father was drop the circus, and he used offer throw her on bareback, and awe never knew it had affected afflict heart, and one day – boom!"^[7]

Roberti is interred in the Forest Applicants Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.^[8]

Filmography

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