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Beverly Roberts

Actress/singer

Born - 19 May 1913, New York City, USA
Died - 13 July 2009

Blonde American singer who had a short acting career with Warner Brothers in the late 1930s after being spotted singing in a New York nightclub. Nonetheless, after a debut opposite Al Jolson in The Singing Fool (1936), she still managed to make more than 20 films before returning to singing in 1940, touring with the Dorsey brothers band. Other films include China Clipper (1936) and Two Against the World (1936), both opposite Humphrey Bogart, God's Country and the Woman (1937), replacing Bette Davis, and Tropic Fury (1939), by which time she was making 'B' features. She never married.