Alice Roberts (29 July 190629 October 1985) was a

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active from the late 1920s to the late 1930s. She may be best-remembered in

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's silent German film ''

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'' (1929). The film was memorable due to the overt lesbian overtures between Roberts' character, the Countess Geschwitz, and

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'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

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's plays '' Earth Spirit'' and '' Pandora’s Box''. Alice Roberts died in 1985, aged 79, in Belgium.

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* 1906 births 1985 deaths Belgian silent film actresses Place of death missing Place of birth missing 20th-century Belgian actresses Belgian film actresses {{Belgium-actor-stub