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1996
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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Thomas Brown
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1935
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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Kenesaw H. Clark
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1935
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Oklahoma's own Will Rogers stars in In Old Kentucky. The storyline is in the grand tradition of most films about the...
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Steve Tapley
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1935
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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Dr. John Pearly
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1935
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George Ade's turn-of-the-century stage success The County Chairman was retailored as a Will Rogers vehicle in 1935. Set in...
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Jim Hackler
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1915, David Harum is the story of an upstate New York rancher devoted to trotting races. Will Rogers...
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David Harum
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1934
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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Judge William "Billy" Priest
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1934
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In this domestic comedy, a small town druggist is married to a woman with social aspirations. To achieve her goal, she cons...
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Andrew Yates
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1934
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Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to...
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Dr. Bull
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1933
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Mr. Skitch
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1933
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The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the...
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Abel Frake
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1933
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Very loosely based on Booth Tarkington's novel The Plutocrat, Business and Pleasure stars Will Rogers as Earl Tinker, a newly...
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Earl Tinker
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1932
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Pike Peters
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1932
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The second film version of Ben Ames Williams' magazine serial Jubilo, and the second to star Will Rogers, Too Busy to Work...
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Jubilo
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1932
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Bill Harper (Will Rogers), a cattle baron turned diplomat, is assigned to the middle European country of Sylvania, which is...
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Bill Harper
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1931
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This Mark Twain adaptation affords a rare opportunity to enjoy a "collaboration" between two of America's greatest humorists....
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Hank Martin
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1931
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In this comedy, a successful owner of a meat-packing plant tries to pass on his obsession for punctuality and rules to his...
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Lemuel Morehouse
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1931
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Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios'...
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1930
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Lightnin' is based on the 1918 stage play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Bacon (the father of director...
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"Lightnin"' Bill Jones
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1930
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Will Rogers' second starring talkie feature was a spiritual twin of the first, They Had to See Paris, albeit with a...
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Hiram Draper
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1930
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Will Rogers' first all-talking feature casts the beloved humorist as Pike Peters, owner of an auto repair shop in Claremore,...
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Pike Peters
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1929
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1927
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Though Will Rogers was still packing 'em in on Broadway, he was considered a Hollywood has-been when he starred in the...
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Intertitle Writer, Cattle Brander
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1927
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1924
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1924
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The beloved humorist Will Rogers, whose own series of Hal Roach two-reelers was produced concurrently with the studio's Our...
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Jubilo
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1924
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Hank
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1923
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This quirky comedy with its mystical overtones was a departure for the down-to-earth Will Rogers. The story opens up with a...
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Ezra Botts
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1922
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Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane -- now, that's interesting casting! Opinions were mixed on whether he fit the role or not. While...
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Ichabod Crane
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1922
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Will Rogers plays the lead in this adaptation of a Saturday Evening Post story. While Rogers really needed talkies to bring...
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Hjalmar Maartens
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1921
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Although he wouldn't find his true place in motion pictures until the talkie era, humorist Will Rogers certainly made a lot...
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Dick
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1921
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In spite of many attempts to bring Will Rogers superstardom in silent films (he was already one on Broadway), it wasn't until...
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Noah Vale
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1921
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Peep O'Day (Will Rogers) is the illiterate pauper of a small Southern town. When he gets the news from Judge Priest...
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Peep O'Day
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1921
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It is said that every actor wants to play Shakespeare. Will Rogers would seem a likely exception to that rule, but here he is...
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Intertitle Writer, Sam Cody
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1921
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This video double feature consists of early silent short subjects starring those two old Ziegfeld Follies colleagues,...
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1921
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Because he was unable to give voice to his earthy wit, Will Rogers' on-film appeal was a bit limited during the silent era....
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"Ropes Reilly"
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1921
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Even though he's a lazy, worthless bum, Hutch (Will Rogers) is a truly likable guy -- maybe that's why his wife Sary (Mary...
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1920
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Although Billy Fortune (Will Rogers) has a hankering for Hope Beecher (Irene Rich), he acknowledges that her suitor, Ben...
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1920
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During the silent era, Will Rogers was generally on the losing end of a romantic triangle; this time his good-natured common...
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1920
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In this romantic comedy, a school teacher moves from his home in the country to a small town. He attends a party and becomes...
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1919
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This simple comedy drama was adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post, but the film itself doesn't seem to have...
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1919
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This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature...
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1916
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This video follows the escapades of Louise and Fatty in the 1915 "Fatty's Tin-Type Tangle." In the second half of this video,...
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1915
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