Roberta Arnold

Minerva Bussenius (September 22, 1896 – August 27, 1966), known professionally as Roberta Arnold, was an American stage and silent film actress. She started in Los Angeles before moving to New York, appeared in leading roles in several Broadway plays and received positive reception. Career She made her professional debut around age 17 in 1910 at the Los Angeles Belasco Theatre, as a non-speaking extra in a production of Forty-five Minutes from Broadway. She joined Oliver Morosco's stock company, where her productions included Peg o' My Heart and The Bird of Paradise supporting Carlotta Monterey. She had a part in Upstairs and Down (1916) which was the most popular Los Angeles play of the season before coming to New York, marking Arnold's Broadway debut. She had leading roles in Adam and Eva (1916), and in The First Year, opposite Frank Craven who also wrote it. She played her role, Grace Livingston, for more than a year, and said of the character, "Grace Livingston, as created by Mr. Craven, is human and real – a genuine person". Her other roles included in Chicken Feed, and Pig Iron. Her role in the 1925 play Pig Iron was said by the San Francisco Examiner to be "the opportunity of her career". She was in the silent film Sands of Life.