Will
Rogers:
The Final Years
Editor’s
note: With this installment we conclude our three-part
profile of the
most celebrated
and revered real cowboy who ever lived, Will Rogers.
This was a project specially chosen for this first
full year of recognition of the U.S. Senate-resolved
and Presidentially
approved National Day of the American Cowboy, set for
July 22. It
was a story such as Hollywood might have scripted on
its best day, but it was real life. Oklahoma
cowboy Will Rogers blazed a trail of success across
the American landscape during the first third of the
20th Century, a run capped with stunning stardom in the new talking film
industry.
He was without question the most famous and admired man of his time.
Throughout
that high-profile life, Rogers justifiably considered
himself a cowboy—not
a rancher—who loved horses. He perfected the roping art and rode
at every chance with his children, each of whom, to their deaths at advanced
ages, spoke
only with admiration for their dad.
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State Fair was vintage Rogers, one of the best
pictures he ever made.
Broadway
stages, after-dinner talks, written commentary,
and radio joined long days on movie sets in the
final five years of his life as he starred in 21
feature films at Twentieth Century-Fox. In 1934
he was number one in box office, topping Clark
Gable, Bing Crosby, and Shirley Temple.....
"Guys
were getting hurt right and left." |
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