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The Story of Will Rogers
1952 film by Michael Curtiz
The Story of Will Rogers (titled onscreen as The Story of Will Rogers as told by His Wife) is a 1952 American ComedyWestern 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 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.[4]
Plot
In the early 1900s, Wil