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At the time of the death of the star of the 30’s, Will Rogers was the highest paid actor in Hollywood, but everything he really wanted was the cowboy, according to his great-granddaughter Jennifer Rogers-etherry.
“I think the Hollywood scene paid the bills, “Rogers Etverra, who lives in his homeland’s home, where he is known as” Favorite son Oklahoma, “Fox News Digital said.
“And he was concluded from Fox to make a few films he didn’t get to finish the contract, but he would have pulled them so he could go, go straight to the ranch, go playing polo, go do something.”
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At the time of the death of the star of the 30’s, Will Rogers was the highest paid actor in Hollywood, but everything he really wanted was the cowboy, according to his great-granddaughter Jennifer Rogers-etherry. (American stocks/Getty Images)
“I don’t think his hobby was a movie star,” said Rogers Eterry. “His admiration was with people.”
Rogers was the highest paid actor who shot over 70 films when he died in a plane crash In 1935 at 55 years. But he was also the author and columnist of the newspaper with more than 40 million readers a day, and wrote six books.
“I don’t know when a man was sleeping,” Rogers Servir joked. “But he just wanted to see everything. He wanted to go and made the movies pay the bills.”
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Despite the fact that it is friendly with celebrities such as Clark Gabel and Walt Disney, as well as playing with presidents, kings and queens, Rogers Eterry says he was a “common man.”
“And he never forgot where he came from Oklahoma,” she said. “He never forgot to be a cowboy. That’s all he wanted to be, was a cowboy. And I think he just followed his roots. And he moved from being a cowboy on the ranch in Olachom, Oklahoma, to the Star of Cassie No. 1 … In Hollywood, he never got such an attitude or arrogance.”
“He never forgot where he came from Oklahoma. He never forgot to be a cowboy.”
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Will Rogers were next to Aviator Charles Lindbergh. (Getti)
She said her grandfather always told her that when Rogers returned to his ranch, “he was Dad, he was not Will Rogers. And he just closed it all and was dad. He was just a good, good boy.”
Rogers began to do entertainment business, tricky in the wild west in Texas, and then he was hired at the “Zigfeld nonsense” in New York.
“As he said, he entertained the public, cunning, while the girls changed from nothing, and he was told not a word, “she said.
Wil Rogerers with his wife and children in 1934. (American stocks/Getty Images)
She once said when he spoiled the trick he joked: “Hey, guys, sorry, I got all my feet but one,” and the audience laughed, and he immediately started this laughter. “
Rogers Eterry said “at that moment he knew he could entertain people.”
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He soon received performances, quoting what he read in the newspapers, making fun of the US president and much more until the celebrity began to come to his show, which had always been sold, she said.
“And it just led from there,” said Rogers Etverra. “And then he eventually signed a movie contract and moved to California.”
Will Rogers with Franklin Roosevelt at a democratic rally in 1932 before Roosevelt became president. (Getti)
In addition to removing the role in dozens of silent movies and current, such as “Yankee Connecticut” with Morin O’Savalian and “steamer around the bending”, Rogers was also an avid enthusiast who was friends with Aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Will Rogers from Mirna Loy in the Yankee Connecticut. (Collect Silver Screens/Images Getty)
After the shameful Lindberg kidnaping and murder. Rogers invited aviator A family to stay on their California ranch so they can have a certain privacy.
“Because, of course, the press was all over it,” Rogers-Eterry explained. “So he somehow took them and kept them there. And they stayed there. And I didn’t know for sure how long they stayed there, but they spent quite a long time when all that happened.”
In 1934, Will Rogers held awards of the Academy. (New York Times Co./getty Images)
Rogers died in a plane crash in Alaska, inspecting postal routes from Oklahoma aviator Williat in August 1935, and he “closed not only the United States but closed the world,” said Rogers-Eterry.
“At the time of his death, he was not only the most famous man in America, and he was really the most famous man in the world. Everyone knew who he was and visited every country. He was unofficial humanities for the US.”
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“Favorite son of Oklahoma” always wanted to be a cowboy, said the great -granddaughter of Rogers. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
When she got involved in the family business, supporting Rogers’s memory, Rogers-series said that the people who were older told her that they remembered the children when Rogers died.
“And they said to me,” This is the only time I saw my dad cried or my mom was crying. They were devastated.
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While he was a “simple man”, Rogers often entertained celebrities on his California’s ranch.
Will Rogers played from Laso, writing notes in 1920. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The widow of Rogers, Betty, sacrificed her ranks and land to the state in 1944, and became a state historic park Will Rogers, who still attracts celebrities to this day, said Rogers-Eterry.
She said she took the role of a family representative for Rogers many years ago.
Will Rogers and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson takes dance steps together in the 1935 movie “In Old Kentucky”. (Fox/Getty Images)
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“I want to keep my heritage alive. I have two children and two grandchildren, and if it wasn’t for me, they wouldn’t imagine who Will Rogers,” she said.
“You know, it is a little easier in Oklahoma. He is a favorite son of Oklahoma, and there is nothing that he has not been named. But you go beyond the state, it’s a little more difficult.”
