The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
July 17, 1952Release Date
The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
July 17, 1952Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Will Rogers Jr.
Will Rogers
Slim Pickens
Dusty Donovan
Jane Wyman
Betty Rogers
Carl Benton Reid
Sen. Clem Rogers
Eve Miller
Cora Marshall
Michael Curtiz
Director
James Gleason
Bert Lynn
Frank Davis
Writer
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The Story of Will Rogers (titled onscreen as The Story of Will Rogers as told by His Wife)is a 1952 American Comedy Western film biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Will Rogers Jr. as his father. The supporting cast features and Jane Wyman. The film's screenplay was based on the true short story "Uncle Clem's Boy" by Rogers' widow Betty Blake, which was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1940.
Bing Crosby secretly made a screen test for the lead role in 1943 (available for viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles), but Warner Bros owned the rights to the Will Rogers story while Crosby was under contract to Paramount and, in 1941, he had given up the clause that had allowed him to make one independent movie per year. Because of these contractual complications, Crosby could not be cast.