Unfortunately, the original video that this post was linked to has taken down, and I can’t seem to find it anywhere else. However, here is a little write up of her from IMDB…..
Height
5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
Mini Biography
Roberta Hyson was an actress and nightclub dancer. She was in the first black talkie shorts made in Hollywood, she made these films with Evelyn Preer who formed a great comedy duo with her. Roberta was great with comedy, expressions, gestures, which was also displayed well in her dancing. She also had a dynamic singing voice.
Roberta Hyson was the ultimate performer, a popular entertainer in the late 1920s and early 1930s in California and in films her roles were not stereotypical but enjoyable, her roles and her presence were never shameful or typical. She was one of the few who got a chance to “just be” on screen and that is enough to make her one of the first and few blacks who became and provided good images and she should be remembered in cinema and black cinema.
RALPH MACCIO
Italian-American born actor, is probably best known for his star role in “The Karate Kid Collection (Four Film Set)
SIDNEY POITIER
Mr. Poitier is undoubtedly, one of the few greatest actors ever lived. He has appeared in such classics as “To sir with love”. Their was a sequel to this movie, but I don’t think it has done as well as the original. Another famous movie he’s done was a movie “My name Mr. Tibbs”, and also “Lilies of the Field