 Will Rogers in Filmplay Journal, January 1922 Image by Melbourne Spurr, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
Will RogersWill Rogers Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer (1879–1935) For other uses, see Will Rogers (disambiguation) and William Rogers (disambiguation). William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son".[1] As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"),[2] and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns.[3] By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was one of the higher paid Hollywood… (Source: Wikipedia)
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