Roberta Hyson (née Roberta Mae Dudley; 1905 in Dallas–1989 in Los Angeles) was an American actress, dancer and singer who appeared in several African-American talkies by the Christie Film Company and played a main role in The Melancholy Dame (1929).
Filmography
- Brown Gravy (1929)
- Oft in the Silly Night (1929) as Mezanine Conner
- The Melancholy Dame (1929) as Sappho Dill
- Music Hath Harms (1929) as Zenia Sprowl
- The Framing of the Shrew (1929) as Mallissie Cheese
- The Lady Fare (1929) as Miss Eva Mapes
- Georgia Rose (1930) as Helen
References
- Ford, Robert (2019-07-24). A Blues Bibliography: Second Edition: Volume 2. Routledge. p. 2017. ISBN 978-1-351-39848-0.
- Eagle, Bob L.; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013-05-01). Blues: A Regional Experience. ABC-CLIO. p. 524. ISBN 978-0-313-34424-4.
- ^ McCann, Bob (2022-09-23). Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television. McFarland. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-4766-9140-4.
- Cripps, Thomas (3 February 1977). Slow Fade to Black. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199878451.
- "Film Archive Oft in the Silly Night". 20's Jazz.
- "Octavus R. Cohen Put Into Talkies". Kenosha News. 1929-04-15. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
- "Roberta Hyson in hot numbers". Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. 1929-08-02. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- Levette, Harry (1934-03-02). ""Them Wuz The Days" When The Colored Actors Were Busy". California Eagle. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
- ""Lady Fare" to Be Fun And Music Riot". The Black Dispatch. 1929-07-11. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
- "Starring in "Georgia Rose"". The Pittsburgh Courier. 1930-09-20. p. 18. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. American Film Institute. University of California Press. 1997. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-520-20964-0.
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