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William "Will" Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Known as Oklahoma's favorite son, Rogers was born to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). He traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, and became a world-famous figure. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was adored by the American people. He was the leading political wit of the Progressive Era, and was the top-paid Hollywood movie star at the time. Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed near Barrow, Alaska.
His vaudeville rope act led to success in the Ziegfeld Follies, which in turn led to the first of his many movie contracts. His 1920s syndicated newspaper column and his radio appearances increased his visibility and popularity. Rogers crusaded for aviation expansion, and provided Americans with first-hand accounts of his world travels. His earthy anecdotes and folksy style allowed him to poke fun at gangsters, prohibition, politicians, government programs, and a host of other controversial topics in a way that was readily appreciated by a national audience, with no one offended. His short aphorisms, couched in humorous terms, were widely quoted: "I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat."
Rogers even provided an epigram on his most famous epigram:
When I die, my epitaph, or whatever you call those signs on gravestones, is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like." I am so proud of that, I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved.
Most Popular Will Rogers Trailers
Total trailers found: 67
19 August 1923
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville.
10 July 1935
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production.
10 February 1933
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
15 September 1934
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
05 November 1922
The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York.
09 December 1923
A morals reformer returns from Hollywood to his small town, and shows his fellow citizens the results of his investigation.
13 November 1931
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest.
23 May 1930
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family.
19 September 1920
Ort Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over the washtub.
22 December 1933
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew.
04 May 1934
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression.
11 October 1919
A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
11 November 1923
Hal Roach produced comedy has Will Rogers playing the title character, a rather slow, dimwitted man who works on a ranch where he usually gets pushed around at.
28 November 1930
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada.
06 April 1931
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him.
01 September 1932
Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.
01 January 1921
A naive young Swede is repeatedly victimized by predatory women. When finally he meets a young woman who seems sincere and true, he wonders if he can trust her.
05 January 1924
Satire on the epic Western 'The Covered Wagon (1923)'.
16 September 1929
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson.
23 May 1920
Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an inventor, is in the local insane asylum.
24 May 1961
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
18 December 1927
Will Rogers, America's unofficial ambassador abroad, invites us to rural England. He starts at Windsor Castle, and we see the boys at Eton in their top hats.
29 October 1922
"Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk.
30 March 1924
In this short, Will Rogers introduces and concludes the movie. And, then, he acts in different fake versions of highlights from famous movies--such as Douglas Fairbanks as ROBIN HOOD, the bull fighting scene from BLOOD AND SAND as well as a recreation of a KEYSTONE COPS short.
08 January 1921
As a man travels down to New Orleans for the winter, he finds out a robbery will be taken place on Christmas night in a plantation.
05 November 1922
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
25 July 1920
Alec Lloyd, the foreman of the Sewell ranch, is nicknamed "Cupid" because of his propensity for matchmaking.
01 January 1942
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years.
22 September 1933
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr.
14 October 1923
At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.
28 June 1924
A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift circus.
01 April 1920
Honest Arizona rancher Sam Gardner, goes with his motherless son Billy to the city, where he is cheated out of ten thousand dollars by a band of crooks.
25 April 1990
Mel Allen hosts this look at Babe Ruth's life and career, focusing primarily on Ruth's years with the New York Yankees.
30 December 1921
Slaving to perfect an invention, Noah Vale tries to keep two orphans--Rip and Patch--and himself by peddling books and is helped by Scallops, a girl who occasionally brings them food.
22 March 1935
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
19 June 1927
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
31 December 1931
Rare footage of Jean Harlow and Bela Lugosi discussing Dracula, as well as Walter Huston performing a musical number.
29 January 1922
Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body.
03 February 1924
A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.
18 September 1929
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people.
22 October 1921
Slim Cody works in the movie industry, doubling for the performers. He has a dream in which he portrays Romeo in a movie version of "Romeo and Juliet," and arranges for someone to double for him when the fight scenes get scary.
19 July 1934
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain.
05 May 1921
Peep O'Day, an orphan in a small Kentucky town, falls heir to a small fortune and begins to make up for all the lost pleasure of childhood, but Sublette, a crooked attorney, arranges for an eastern belle to show up as Peep's "niece" to steal his fortune.
01 May 1940
Judy Garland sings the title song, a tribute to Will Rogers.
02 March 1924
A young cowboy takes a job at a ranch owned by two aging spinsters, unaware that both are completely in love with him.
01 January 1976
A compilation of Shirley Temple newsreel appearances from the 1930's.
07 December 1919
Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machinations of a sinister villain.
31 August 1993
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper.
04 December 1927
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him.
24 May 1924
Will Rogers plays a lazy man who is chosen by a group of men to run for Congress.
22 June 1924
Don't Park There was one of a series of two-reel comedies Will Rogers made for producer Hal Roach during the 1923-4 season.
06 March 1927
In this silent short film, the first in a series of travelesques entitled "Abroad with Will Rogers" featuring European locales, Rogers takes the viewer on a tour of Dublin, Ireland.
08 February 1920
Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink.
26 December 1957
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
16 August 1924
Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle returns to his small town, fielding questions about Washington politics and his adventures.
11 January 1935
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role.
02 March 1934
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh.
