The Story of Will Rogers

The Story of Will Rogers

Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Produced by	Robert Arthur
Starring	Will Rogers, Jr. Jane Wyman Slim Pickens Noah Beery, Jr. Steve Brodie Eddie Cantor
Music by	Victor Young
Cinematography	Wilfred M. Cline
Edited by	Folmar Blangstead
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	1952 (1952)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million^[1]
Box office	$2.65 million (US rentals)^[2]

The Story of Will Rogers is a 1952 movie biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Will Rogers, Jr. as his father. The supporting cast features Jane Wyman, Slim Pickens, Noah Beery, Jr., Steve Brodie, and Eddie Cantor. Bing Crosby secretly made a screen test for the lead role available for viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles but was deemed too different in persona from Rogers to play the part.

Cast

Will Rogers, Jr. ... Will Rogers
Jane Wyman ... Betty Blake Rogers
Carl Benton Reid ... Senator Clem Rogers
Eve Miller ... Cora Marshall
James Gleason ... Bert Lynn
Slim Pickens ... Dusty Donovan
Noah Beery, Jr. ... Wiley Post
Mary Wickes ... Mrs. Foster
Steve Brodie ... Dave Marshall
Pinky Tomlin ... Orville James
Margaret Field ... Sally Rogers, Will's sister
Eddie Cantor ... Himself
Frank Bank ... A youthful Will Rogers

Inaccuracies

The film depicts Rogers' father, Clem Rogers, as being part of the Oklahoma delegation at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, despite the fact that Clem Rogers had died in 1911.

References

↑ [https://archive.org/stream/variety169-1948-02#page/n133/mode/1up Variety 18 February 1948 p 14
↑ 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953

External links

The Story of Will Rogers at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Michael Curtiz

1910s	The Last Bohemian Today and Tomorrow Captive Souls My Husband's Getting Married The Exile The Borrowed Babies The Princess in a Nightrobe Prisoner of the Night Bánk Bán Golddigger One Who Is Loved By Two Seven of Spades The Strength of the Fatherland The Karthauzer The Black Rainbow The Wolf The Medic Mr. Doctor Master Zoard The Red Samson The Last Dawn Spring in Winter Tartar Invasion Secret of St. Job Forest Nobody's Son The Charlatan A Penny's History The Fishing Bell Earth's Man The Colonel Peace's Road Jean the Tenant The Merry Widow Magic Waltz A skorpió I. The Devil Lulu Lu, the Coquette Júdás The Ugly Boy Alraune 99 The Sunflower Woman Liliom (unfinished) The Lady with the Black Gloves

1920s	Boccaccio The Star of Damascus The Scourge of God Mrs. Tutti Frutti Good and Evil Mrs. Dane's Confession Labyrinth of Horror Sodom and Gomorrah Young Medardus Avalanche Nameless A Deadly Game General Babka Harun al Raschid The Moon of Israel Red Heels Cab No. 13 The Golden Butterfly The Third Degree A Million Bid The Desired Woman Good Time Charley Tenderloin Noah's Ark Glad Rag Doll Madonna of Avenue A The Gamblers Hearts in Exile

1930s	Mammy Under a Texas Moon The Matrimonial Bed Bright Lights A Soldier's Plaything River's End Demon of the Sea God's Gift to Women The Mad Genius The Woman from Monte Carlo Alias the Doctor The Strange Love of Molly Louvain Doctor X The Cabin in the Cotton 20,000 Years in Sing Sing Mystery of the Wax Museum The Keyhole Private Detective 62 Goodbye Again The Kennel Murder Case Female Mandalay Jimmy the Gent The Key British Agent The Case of the Curious Bride Black Fury Front Page Woman Little Big Shot Captain Blood The Walking Dead The Charge of the Light Brigade Stolen Holiday Mountain Justice Kid Galahad The Perfect Specimen Gold Is Where You Find It The Adventures of Robin Hood (with William Keighley) Four's a Crowd Four Daughters Angels with Dirty Faces Dodge City Daughters Courageous The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex Four Wives

1940s	Virginia City The Sea Hawk Santa Fe Trail The Sea Wolf Dive Bomber Captains of the Clouds Yankee Doodle Dandy Casablanca Mission to Moscow This Is the Army Passage to Marseille Janie Roughly Speaking Mildred Pierce Night and Day Life with Father The Unsuspected Romance on the High Seas My Dream Is Yours (with Friz Freleng) Flamingo Road The Lady Takes a Sailor

1950s	Young Man with a Horn Bright Leaf The Breaking Point Force of Arms Jim Thorpe – All-American I'll See You in My Dreams The Story of Will Rogers The Jazz Singer Trouble Along the Way The Boy from Oklahoma The Egyptian White Christmas We're No Angels The Scarlet Hour The Vagabond King The Best Things in Life Are Free The Helen Morgan Story The Proud Rebel King Creole The Hangman The Man in the Net

1960s	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Breath of Scandal Francis of Assisi The Comancheros

Short films	Jön az öcsém (1919) Sons of Liberty (1939)

Productions	Bright Lights (1935)

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