Lyda Roberti (née Pecjak; May 20, 1906 – March 13, 1938) [1] was an American singer and stage and film actress. (According to the opening credits of "The Big Broadcast of 1936," Lyda is pronounced LEE-duh.)

Lyda Roberti. Actress: Nobody's Baby. Lyda's father was German clown Roberti, her mother a Polish trick rider. As a child performer, she toured Europe and Asia with the Circus in which she was born, leaving it (and her reportedly abusive father) in Shanghai, China.

Mar 13, 2015 · Actress. Born in Warsaw, Poland, she was the daughter of Roberti, the renowned Continental circus clown. In the early 1920s, she made her debut in San Francisco as a vaudeville chorus girl and as a stage dancer and a singer in Los Angeles.

Lyda Roberti (ur. 20 maja 1906 w Warszawie, zm. 12 marca 1938 w Glendale) – amerykańska aktorka filmowa i teatralna pochodzenia niemiecko-polskiego.

Lyda Roberti was a popular Polish actress who died young from a heart attack. She was born Lyda Pecjack on May 20, 1906 in Warsaw, Poland. Her father was a professional clown and her mother was a circus trick rider. During her childhood she performed in the circus all over Europe.

Lyda's unforgettable stage and screen character was a sexy blonde whose charming accent and uninhibited man-chasing were played for hilarious laughs. From 1932-35 she made 8 comedy and musical films mainly at Paramount, with Fields, Cantor, and other great comedians; her unique singing style was also popular on the radio and records.

This brilliant blonde stage comic went on to appear in a handful of early 1930s films. Born into a Polish circus family, Roberti spent her youth trouping through Russia, China, Egypt, France and Germany before she and her sisters came to the US in the late 1920s.

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Lyda Roberti, film actress, died today in her apartment of a heart attack. She was 32 years old and had been in poor health for the last two years., The heart ailment she suffered...

Lyda Roberti. Actress: Nobody's Baby. Lyda's father was German clown Roberti, her mother a Polish trick rider. As a child performer, she toured Europe and Asia with the Circus in which she was born, leaving it (and her reportedly abusive father) in Shanghai, China.