Who is Will Rogers
William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was the highest paid of Hollywood film stars. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska.Rogers began his career as a performer on vaudeville. His rope act led to success in the...Read Full Biography of Will Rogers
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Will Rogers Quotes
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
- A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
- You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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