Film Portrayals
Rogers was portrayed by A.A. Trimble in cameos in both the 1936 film, The Great Ziegfeld, and the 1937 film, You're a Sweetheart.
Rogers was portrayed by his son, Will Rogers, Jr., in a cameo in the 1949 film, Look for the Silver Lining, and as the star of the 1952 film, The Story of Will Rogers.
Rogers was portrayed by actor Keith Carradine in the 1994 film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Carradine had played Rogers three years earlier on Broadway, in the stage musical, The Will Rogers Follies.
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