Will Rogers
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As a boy, Rogers became an expert rider and rope-twirler; he first performed in a Johannesburg Wild West Show during the Boer War. In the U.S., he worked in fairs and vaudeville, gradually developing an act that included humor. He began appearing in... more
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Cast: Will Rogers Jane Darwell George Marshall Rochelle Hudson George Barbier
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 85min
A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town newspaper editor who prints all the news that fits his own homespun view of the world. Against the wishes of the town higher-ups,...
Cast: Will Rogers Gladys Lehman George Marshall Dorothy Wilson Charles Sellon
Tags: Comedy
Length: 86min
Oklahoma's own Will Rogers stars in In Old Kentucky. The storyline is in the grand tradition of most films about the Bluegrass State: There's a long-standing family feud, a pair of star-crossed lovers, and a crucial horse race. Rogers cuts through the...
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Cast: Will Rogers John Ford Ben Hall Stepin Fetchit Eugene Pallette
Length: 96min
Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round the Bend. Cobb isn't much of an actor, so it is Rogers who carries the comic weight of this fast-paced slice of Americana....
Cast: Will Rogers John Ford Henry B. Walthall Anita Louise Rochelle Hudson
Tags: Comedy of Manners Drama
Length: 80min
Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The Judge's easygoing manner bothers many of the self-righteous good citizens of his small 19th-century hometown, imperiling his...
Cast: Will Rogers Stepin Fetchit Evelyn Venable Kent Taylor James Cruze
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 83min
Previously filmed in 1915, David Harum is the story of an upstate New York rancher devoted to trotting races. Will Rogers makes no attempt to alter his Oklahoma accent as David Harum, but audiences in the 1930s came to see Rogers and not the...
Cast: Will Rogers Mickey Rooney Gladys Lehman Evelyn Venable Louise Dresser
Tags: Political Drama Drama
Length: 85min
George Ade's turn-of-the-century stage success The County Chairman was retailored as a Will Rogers vehicle in 1935. Set in 1904, the film casts Rogers as Jim Hackler, political-party chairman of Tomahawk County, Wyoming. At rise, Hackler is running...
Cast: Will Rogers Alison Skipworth Sterling Holloway Billie Burke David Butler
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 78min
Doubting Thomas is the 1935 film version of George Kelly's satirical comedy The Torch Bearers, tailored for the talents of Will Rogers. Billie Burke, Will's wife, becomes so involved in a local amateur theatre group that she has no time for her...
Cast: Will Rogers John Ford Berton Churchill Andy Devine Robert Parrish
Tags: Medical Drama Drama Romance
Length: 90min
Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to the citizens, often substituting advice and witticisms for pills and sutures. There are those who resist Dr. Bull's everyday...
Cast: Will Rogers Robert Taylor Peggy Wood David Butler Mary Carlisle
Tags: Comedy
Length: 81min
In this domestic comedy, a small town druggist is married to a woman with social aspirations. To achieve her goal, she cons him into selling his store to a chain. She then puts on all sorts of phony airs and proceeds to make a pompous fool of herself....
Cast: Will Rogers Janet Gaynor Henry King Sally Eilers Lew Ayres
Tags: Ensemble Film Domestic Comedy Rural Drama Americana Comedy Drama
Length: 80min
The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the three because of its stricter adherence to the source material and the presence of star Will Rogers. Rogers plays Abel Frake,...
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