Highest rated movie: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
Lowest rated movie: They Had to See Paris (1929)
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Looking for reviews of Will Rogers movies? Cinafilm has a total of 32 reviews across 7 movies.
Movies starring Will Rogers have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 53%.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - released in 1975 - is Will Rogers's highest rated movie, with a score of 63% based on 5 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Will Rogers is They Had to See Paris - released in 1929 - with a score of 45% based on 2 reviews.
William "Will" Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Known as Oklahoma's favorite son, Rogers was born to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). He traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, and became a world-famous figure. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was adored by the American people. He was the leading political wit of the Progressive Era, and was the top-paid Hollywood movie star at the time. Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed near Barrow, Alaska.
His vaudeville rope act led to success in the Ziegfeld Follies, which in turn led to the first of his many movie contracts. His 1920s syndicated newspaper column and his radio appearances increased his visibility and popularity. Rogers crusaded for aviation expansion, and provided Americans with first-hand accounts of his world travels. His earthy anecdotes and folksy style allowed him to poke fun at gangsters, prohibition, politicians, government programs, and a host of other controversial topics in a way that was readily appreciated by a national audience, with no one offended. His short aphorisms, couched in humorous terms, were widely quoted: "I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat."
Rogers even provided an epigram on his most famous epigram:
When I die, my epitaph, or whatever you call those signs on gravestones, is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like." I am so proud of that, I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved.
Will Rogers has acted in films with Myrna Loy, Berton Churchill, Frank Albertson and Rochelle Hudson.
Will Rogers has worked with these film directors: John Ford, David Butler, Frank Borzage and Philippe Mora.
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