page_title: Roberta
section_title: Original Broadway cast
hierarchical_section_title: Roberta / Original Broadway cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Jerome Kern Caption reads as follows: Jerome Kern is one of Manhattan's shrewdest and most passionate bibliophiles. (The Kern sale is still a glamorous legend.) He is also the composer of masterpieces such as They Wouldn't Believe Me and Ol' Man River—and Roberta.
context_page_description: Roberta is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The musical is based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. It features the songs "Yesterdays", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Let's Begin", "You're Devastating", "Something Had To Happen", "The Touch of Your Hand" and "I'll Be Hard to Handle".
context_section_description: Bob Hope as Huckleberry Haines
  Tamara Drasin as Princess Stephanie
  Ray Middleton as John Kent
  Fay Templeton as Aunt Minnie / Roberta
  George Murphy as Billy Boyden
  Lyda Roberti as Madame Nunez / Clementina Scharwenka
  Sydney Greenstreet as Lord Henry Delves
  Fred MacMurray as California Collegian
  Allan Jones as California Collegian
  Helen Gray as Sophie Teale
  Jane Evans as Mrs. Teale
  Bobette Christine as Angele
  William Hain as Ladislaw
  Nayan Pearce as Luella Laverne
  Mavis Walsh as Marie
  Ed Jerome as Monsieur Leroux
  Berenice Alaire as Sidonie
  Gretchen Sherman as The Buyer
  Virginia Whitmore as The Flower Girl
caption: Jerome Kern in 1933
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