This week we have a nice lot of vintage sheet music booklets up for auction.
Being a record store we're no experts on sheet music. But these were too nice to pass up.
*** We have many more pieces of sheet music (from 1900 to the 70s) coming this week,
and the weeks following. Check back later *** We gladly combine orders
Here's a 1935 vintage 4 page English print sheet music for the RKO Picture film song
Lovely To Look At
from the film: Roberta (starring Irene Dunne with Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire)
Music by: Jerome Kern
Words by: Otto Harbach
Conditon: the booklet is in a great condition for it 's age. aging, a little corner wear - a lovely piece.
Info:
Roberta is a 1935 musical film directed by William A. Seiter and produced by Pandro S. Bermanby for RKO starring
Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of a 1933 Broadway musical Roberta,
which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller.
It was a solid hit, showing a net profit of more than three-quarters of a million dollars.
The film kept the famous songs "Yesterdays", "Let's Begin" (with altered lyrics), and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from the play,
along with a fourth song, "I'll Be Hard to Handle". Three songs from the play were dropped — "The Touch of Your Hand",
"Something Had To Happen" and "You're Devastating". Two songs were added to this film, "I Won't Dance" (resurrected from the
flop Kern show Three Sisters) and "Lovely to Look At", which both became #1 hits in 1935. The latter addition was nominated
for the Best Song Oscar. The songs "I Won't Dance" and "Lovely to Look At" have remained so popular that they are now
almost always included in revivals and recordings of Roberta.
Roberta is the third Astaire-Rogers film, and the only one to be remade with other actors. MGM did so in 1952, entitling the new
Technicolor version Lovely to Look At. Indeed, with an eye to a remake, MGM bought Roberta in 1945, keeping it out of general
circulation until the 1970s.
Cast:
Irene Dunne as Stephanie
Fred Astaire as Huck
Ginger Rogers as Scharwenka
Randolph Scott as John
Helen Westley as Roberta
Claire Dodd as Sophie
Victor Varconi as Ladislaw
Luis Alberni as Voyda
Ferdinand Munier as Lord DelvesTorben Meyer as Albert
Shipping costs:
Worldwide shipping: $11.50 - for 1 to maybe 8 booklets (depending on the thickness)
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