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5 ago 2020 · Will Rogers (Above: by Walter K. Kinstler, c. 1923) was a cowboy, Barber says, but unlike other popular western stars of that era, he never carried a gun. NPG. Surrendering to his wanderlust again ...
17 mag 2018 · The cast of ‘The Will Rogers Follies‘ Photo: Diane Sobolewski East Haddam, Conn. Will Rogers is mostly forgotten now, but he used to be famous in a way that has a peculiarly modern feel to it.
Will makes his first sound picture for Fox Film Corporation. He will star in 21 films for them from 1929-1935. 1930. Does a series of radio broadcasts for E. R. Squibb and Sons. 1931. Travels to Nicaragua to benefit earthquake and fire victims, and to London to observe disarmament conference. 1933. Will Rogers is the highest paid film star in ...
2 mag 1991 · The evening's second bananas -- Ms. Hoty, Dick Latessa (as Rogers's dad), Cady Huffman (a leggy Ziegfeld emcee) -- are all able, but their material is routine. Mr. Coleman's music, orchestrated to ...
4 mag 2018 · In addition to his work with the Ziegfeld Follies, Rogers made forays into radio, film, and writing, and his comedy was saturated with broadly appealing political commentary. The musical adaptation of Rogers’ life takes place, confusingly, in some kind of afterlife, with Will (and sometimes Ziegfeld) narrating his life story in the form of a vaudevillian revue.
18 nov 1994 · THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES: A LIFE IN REVUE. All Will Rogers knew, he claimed in one of his most famous quotes, was what he read in the newspapers. Except when I talked to his current Broadway touring company alter ego, Bill O'Brien, who is playing the title role in "The Will Rogers Follies."One of the segments in the musical, arriving next week ...
20 mag 2017 · Comden and Green wrote another musical with Bernstein, Wonderful Town (1953), which won them their first Tony Award; they won six others, for Hallelujah, Baby!, Applause (1970), On the Twentieth Century (1978) and The Will Rogers Follies (1991). They also wrote several film scripts, including that of Auntie Mame (1958) and Singin’ in the Rain ...
