Roberta Hyson
{{short description|American actress (1905–1989)}}
Roberta Hyson (née Roberta Mae Dudley;{{Cite book |last=Ford |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXGlDwAAQBAJ |title=A Blues Bibliography: Second Edition: Volume 2 |date=2019-07-24 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-39848-0 |pages=2017 |language=en}} 1905 in Dallas–1989 in Los Angeles){{Cite book |last1=Eagle |first1=Bob L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZNfAQAAQBAJ |title=Blues: A Regional Experience |last2=LeBlanc |first2=Eric S. |date=2013-05-01 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-34424-4 |pages=524 |language=en}} was an American actress, dancer and singer{{Cite book |last=McCann |first=Bob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0iKEAAAQBAJ |title=Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television |date=2022-09-23 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-9140-4 |pages=172 |language=en}} who appeared in several African-American talkies by the Christie Film Company and played a main role in The Melancholy Dame (1929).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dnt4vGnSJbkC&q=roberta+hyson&pg=PT295|title = Slow Fade to Black|isbn = 9780199878451|last1 = Cripps|first1 = Thomas|date = 3 February 1977| publisher=Oxford University Press }}
Filmography
- Brown Gravy (1929)
- Oft in the Silly Night (1929) as Mezanine Conner{{Cite web|url=http://www.20sjazz.com/videos/film-archive/oft-in-the-silly-night.html|title=Film Archive Oft in the Silly Night|website=20's Jazz}}
- The Melancholy Dame (1929) as Sappho Dill
- Music Hath Harms (1929) as Zenia Sprowl{{Cite news |date=1929-04-15 |title=Octavus R. Cohen Put Into Talkies |pages=11 |work=Kenosha News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112808009/octavus-r-cohen-put-into-talkies/ |access-date=2022-11-09}}
- The Framing of the Shrew (1929) as Mallissie Cheese
- The Lady Fare (1929) as Miss Eva Mapes{{Cite news |date=1929-08-02 |title=Roberta Hyson in hot numbers |pages=10 |work=Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61904998/roberta-hyson-in-hot-numbers/ |access-date=2020-10-26}}{{Cite news |last=Levette |first=Harry |date=1934-03-02 |title="Them Wuz The Days" When The Colored Actors Were Busy |pages=11 |work=California Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111712603/california-eagle/ |access-date=2022-11-09}}{{Cite news |date=1929-07-11 |title="Lady Fare" to Be Fun And Music Riot |pages=8 |work=The Black Dispatch |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112807384/lady-fare-to-be-fun-and-music-riot/ |access-date=2022-11-09}}
- Georgia Rose (1930){{Cite news|date=1930-09-20|title=Starring in "Georgia Rose"|pages=18|work=The Pittsburgh Courier|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61905105/starring-in-georgia-rose/|access-date=2020-10-26}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC |title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 |date=1997 |publisher=University of California Press |others=American Film Institute |isbn=978-0-520-20964-0 |pages=380 |language=en}} as Helen
References
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External links
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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:20th-century American dancers
Category:American female dancers
Category:African-American female dancers
Category:20th-century African-American actresses
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