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Salter was born Roberta Star Semple in Hong Kong, where her mother and father, Robert James Semple, were doing missionary work. Robert died of dysentery and malaria on August 19, 1910, [2] 1 week after the couple's 2nd wedding anniversary; Roberta was born 29 days later. Her mother named her "Roberta" in her father's memory and "Star" because ...
He was the son of Harold Stewart McPherson and Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. He was the half-brother of Roberta Star Semple, the daughter of Aimee and her first husband Robert James Semple, who had died of malaria one month before the birth of his daughter. Rolf and his sister Roberta were ...
[214] [215] Even in later years, when McPherson had a falling-out with her mother, Mildred Kennedy, and daughter, Roberta Star Semple, with unkind remarks traded through the press, the latter two always insisted her 1926 disappearance was the result of a kidnapping.
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After emerging from the Mexican desert, McPherson convalesces in a hospital with her family in Douglas, Arizona, 1926. District Attorney Asa Keyes stands to the far left with Mildred Kennedy (mother) next to Roberta Star Semple, middle left (daughter). On the far right, Deputy District Attorney Joseph Ryan is alongside her son, Rolf McPherson.
Roberta Arnold (1896–1966), American stage and silent film actress; Roberta A. Ballard, American pediatrician; Roberta Baskin, American journalist and non-profit director; Roberta Bayley, American photographer; Roberta Bianconi (born 1989), Italian water polo player; Roberta Bitgood (1908–2007), American organist, choir director and ...
Roberta is a 1935 American musical film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by William A. Seiter. It stars Irene Dunne , Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , and features Randolph Scott , Helen Westley , Victor Varconi and Claire Dodd .
Roberta's father Robert Sherwood was the manager of a traveling minstrel show; she and her sister Anne were raised on the road after their mother died. Roberta started performing in vaudeville at age 11, and the sisters soon became a vaudeville and nightclub act. In 1932 they met Broadway actor Don Lanning, who mentored Roberta and ultimately ...