Will Rogers was Hollywood's highest-paid actor but preferred cowboy life, great-granddaughter says

During his death, Will Rogers, the star of the 30s, was the highest paid actor in Hollywood, but his great grandson Jennifer Rogers -Cheverry was to be a cowboy he really wanted.

“I think the Hollywood scene paid invoices, “Rogers -Cheverry, who lives in his great grandfather in the native Oklahoma, said,” Oklahoma’s favorite son. ”

He continued: “And the contract was made with Fox to make a few films that he could not finish his contract, but he would go to the farm and go to the farm, play the polo and do something to do something.”

Rogers had a 186 -acre farm in Pacific Palisades, burning in January in Los Angeles fires.

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“I don’t think your passion is a film star,” Rogers -Chenverry said. “His passion was to be with people.”

Rogers was the highest paid actor shooting more than 70 films when he died in a 55 -year -old plane crash in 1935. But he was also a writer and a newspaper columnist with more than 40 million readers a day and wrote six books.

Orum I don’t know when the man was sleeping, Rog Rogers -Cheverry joked. “But he just wanted to see everything. He wanted to go and paid the movies bills.”

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Despite the fact that he is friendly to celebrities like Clark Gable and Walt Disney, and Hobnobbing with presidents, kings and queens and Hobnobbing, Rogers -Ccheverry says he was a “ordinary man”.

“And he never forgot where he came from in Oklahoma.” “He never forgot to be a cowboy. The only thing he wanted was a cowboy. And I think he just clung to his roots. And only Oologah was in the box office star on the box office star 1 from being a cowboy on a farm in Oklahoma.

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When his grandfather always returned to Rogers farm, he said, “He was his father, Rogers wasn’t the will. And he just closed them all and said he was a father. He was just a beautiful, good child.”

Rogers started the entertainment business by canceling the trick at the Wild West show in Texas, and then hired for Ziegfeld Follies in New York.

“As he said, as the girls turned into anything from anything, he entertained the audience by canceling the trick and was told not to say a word. ”

When he once made a cheating, “Hey, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, one, but one of them” and the audience laughed and immediately fueled those laughter. “

Rogers -Ccheverry said, “he knew he could entertain people at that moment.”

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Shortly after, he played in the newspapers, making fun of the President of the United States, and the celebrities always took a role until they started to come to the show.

“And he’s out of there,” Rogers -Cheverry said. “And then finally made a contract with the films and moved to California.”

Maureen O’Sullivan and “Steamboat” around the bend and “A Connecticut Yankee” in dozens of silent film and speech, as well as playing, Rogers was also an enthusiastic flying passion with the aviator Charles Lindbergh.

After a bad fame lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder– ROGERS invited the aviator There may be a little privacy, so that the family to stay at the California farm.

“Because of course, the press happened everywhere.” “So he took them in and held them there. And they stayed there. And I don’t know exactly how much they stayed there, but they spent some time there when everything happened.”

Rogers -Cheverry died in a plane crash in Rogers Alaska, and in August 1935, Oklahoma Aviator Wiley Post searched for postal roads and said, “He just closed the United States, closed the world,” he said.

“During his death, not only America’s most famous person, but really the most famous man in the world. Everyone knew who he was and visited every country. He was an informal humanitarian for the United States.”

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When he joined the family business, Rogers -Cheverry, keeping Rogers’s memory alive, said that older people remembered that older people were a child when Rogers died.

“And they said to me, ‘The only time I saw my father crying or my mother was crying.’ They were destroyed, and I think he was just a man who brought together. ”

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While he was a “ordinary man”, Rogers often entertained celebrities at the California farm.

Rogers -Cheverry, Rogers’ widow’s wife Betty donated his farm in 1944 and donated to the state in 1944, and Rogers -Ccheverry was still the Will Rogers State Historic park.

He said that he played the role of a family representative for Rogers years ago.

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“I want to keep the legacy alive. I have two children and two grandchildren, and if it wasn’t for me, they wouldn’t have any idea who Rogers was.” He said.

“You know, it’s a little easier in Oklahoma. He’s his favorite son of Oklahoma, and there’s nothing that doesn’t take his name. But you’re going out of the state, a little more challenging.”