“Vive de tal manera que no te daría vergüenza vender
el perico de la familia al chismoso del pueblo”
Will Rogers
William Penn Adair
"Will" Rogers (4 de noviembre de 1879 – 15 de agosto de 1935) fue
un cowboy, humorista, comentarista y actor estadounidense. Conocido como el
hijo favorito de Oklahoma, Rogers nació en el seno de una importante familia de
Territorio Indio. Dio la vuelta al mundo tres veces, rodó 71 películas (50
mudas y 21 sonoras), escribió más de 4,000 columnas periodísticas, y se convirtió
en una celebridad mundial. A mediados de la década de 1930 Rogers era adorado
por los estadounidenses, y fue la estrella mejor pagada de Hollywood.
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 –
August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social
commentator and motion picture actor. He was one of the world's best-known
celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son," Rogers was born to a
prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). He
traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21
"talkies"), wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper
columns, and became a world-famous figure. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was adored
by the American people. He was the leading political wit of the Progressive
Era, and was the top-paid Hollywood movie star at the time. Rogers died in 1935
with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed in Alaska.
