Adela Rogers St. Johns
Adela Rogers St. Johns (actually Nora Adela Rogers, born May 20, 1894 in Los Angeles, California; † August 10, 1988 in Arroyo Grande, California ) was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
Biography
Adela Rogers' father, the lawyer Earl Rogers was a friend of the publisher William Randolph Hearst. At age 19, she got her first job as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner, which was published by Hearst. She was known as a girl reporter who reported on crime, politics, society and sports. In the early 1920s she moved to the magazine Photoplay and went through interviews with stars a name. She also wrote short stories and screenplays. In 1932 she was for the Oscar in the category of Best Original Story for the film What Price Hollywood? nominated.
Characteristic was her emotional style with which they reported, for example, about the boxing match against Jack Dempsey Gene Tunney 1927. Their reports on poverty during and after the Great Depression and the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the kidnapper and murderer of the Lindbergh baby, in 1935, the readers remained in my memory. Mid-1930s, she moved to the U.S. capital. There they reported on the assassination of Senator Huey Long in 1935, the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 and other major events. Until 1948 she was working as a reporter, then she turned back to writing about.
In 1962, she published Final Verdict, a biography of her father. The book was made into a film in 1991; in the film she is portrayed by Olivia Burnette. For her achievements, she was in 1970 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States, honored. With 82 years Adela Rogers returned in 1976 back to the San Francisco Examiner reported on the trial of Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of her first bosses.
1981 Adela Rogers played himself in Warren Beatty's Reds, a biography of journalist John Reed. In addition to other authors such as Henry Miller, Will Durant and Rebecca West, she performed as a contemporary witness.
Adela Rogers St. Johns, a second cousin of Humphrey Bogart, died on 10 August 1988. On the Hollywood Walk of Fame she has a star at the address 6420 Hollywood Boulevard.
Published works
- The Skyrocket - ISBN 1-4179-4163-4; Filmed in 1926 by Marshall Neilan
- A Free Soul - 1931 under the title The Courage to happiness by Clarence Brown filmed; Remake 1953 by Richard Thorpe ( spoiled A Beast )
- Filmed in 1929 under the title Invisible Shackles by John S. Robertson - The Single Standard
- First Step Toward Heaven up: Hubert Eaton and Forest Lawn
- Final Verdict - ISBN 1-163-80831-8; Filmed by Jack Fisk in 1991
- Tell No One
- The Honeycomb - autobiography
- Some are Born Great
- Love, Laughter, and Tears
- No Goodbyes: My Search into Life After Death