Alice Roberts was a Belgian actress active from the late 1920s to the late 1930s.

She may be best-remembered in Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

-Biography:Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began...

's silent German film Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box (film)

Pandora's Box is a 1929 German silent melodrama film based on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora . Directed by Austrian filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst, the film stars Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer...

(1929). The film was memorable due to the overt lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

 overtures between Roberts' character, the Countess Geschwitz, and Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...

' character, Lulu. The film was based on Frank Wedekind

Frank Wedekind

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...

's plays Earth Spirit (play)

Earth Spirit (play)

Earth Spirit is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays , both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". In German folklore an erdgeist is a gnome, first described in Goethe's Faust...

and "Pandora's Box (play)

Pandora's Box (play)

Pandora's Box is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays , both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed".G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version , which was loosely based on the play, in 1929...

".

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1932	Mon curé chez les riches
1931	Costaud des PTT, Le		aka Roi des facteurs, Le (France)
1930	Douceur d'aimer, La	Ruzy Valbreuse	aka The Sweetness of Loving (US)
1930	Quand nous étions deux	Lise Daltour
1929	Narr seiner Liebe, Der
1929	Lustige Witwer, Der	Alice Dulac
1929	Meineid		aka Perjury (International: English title)
1929	Büchse der Pandora, Die Pandora's Box (film) Pandora's Box is a 1929 German silent melodrama film based on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora . Directed by Austrian filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst, the film stars Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer...	Gräfin Geschwitz - Countess Anna Geschwitz	aka Pandora's Box (UK) (US)
1929	Détresse
1928	Schicksal derer von Habsburg, Das	Louise of Coburg
1928	Femme rêvée, La		aka An Ideal Woman (International: English title)
1928	Île d'amour, L'	La nurse	aka Island of Love (International: English title)
1928	Miss Édith, duchesse		aka Miss Edith, Duchess (International: English title)

Death

Alice Roberts died in 1985, aged 79, following a heart attack.

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