The Story of Will Rogers (Warner) is an unusual Hollywood film biography It is both faithful to the facts of Cowboy-Humorist Rogers' life, and has in Will Rogers Jr., playing the title role, almost a carbon copy of his famous father.
Based on Uncle Clem's Boy, by the late Mrs. Will Rogers (played by Jane Wyman), the picture traces Rogers' career from Oklahoma cowpuncher to Wild-West-show trick roper, vaudeville lasso artist-monologist, and poet lariat and sagebrush sage of stage, screen, radio, banquet table, speakers' platform and syndicated column. The picture ends with Rogers'...
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