Alice Roberts (29 July 190629 October 1985) was a Belgian actress active from the late 1920s to the late 1930s.
She may be best-remembered in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's silent German film Pandora's Box (1929). The film was memorable due to the overt lesbian overtures between Roberts' character, the Countess Geschwitz, and Louise Brooks's character, Lulu. Some scholars count her performance "one of the first cinematic representations not only of lesbian desire, but of an explicitly queer female masculinity."
The film was based on Frank Wedekind's plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box.
Alice Roberts died in 1985, aged 79, in Belgium.
Filmography Year Title Role International title 1932 My Priest Among the Rich 1931 Le Costaud des PTT 1930 Quand nous étions deux Lise Daltour 1929 Der Narr seiner Liebe 1929 Der lustige Witwer Alice Dulac The Merry Widower 1929 Meineid Inge Sperber Perjury 1929 Die Büchse der Pandora Gräfin Geschwitz - Countess Anna Geschwitz Pandora's Box (UK), (US) 1929 Détresse Distress 1928 Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg Louise of Coburg The Fate of the House of Habsburg 1928 La femme rêvée An Ideal Woman (English title) 1928 L'île d'amour La nurse Island of Love (English title) 1928 Miss Édith, duchesse Miss Edith, Duchess (English title)
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