Talk:A Face in the Crowd (film)

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Can anybody find a reference for this statement in the article. "Will Rogers Jr., who admitted his famous father's "man of the people" image was a facade." A google search shows that it is a circular reference from this same article. I find it hard to believe that this is a true statement. Somebody please prove me wrong.

45.30.87.79 (talk) 22:04, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I Was Wrong - I Found a Reference

I was wrong when I wrote the above comment in October 2019 about Will Rogers Jr. saying that his famous father's "man of the people" image was a facade. The Atlantic ran a major story about "A Face in the Crowd" and how it was written and it contains information that confirms the information that I deleted from the article on October 25, 2019. Here is a quote from the article:

A famously down-home wit, Rogers was one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood when his small plane crashed in Alaska in 1935. A few years later, Rogers’s son Will Rogers Jr. was chatting one night with a fellow Hollywood scion, Schulberg, the son of a successful Paramount producer. Rogers Jr. was contemplating a congressional run in 1942.

Both men had served in the military during World War II and knew something of privilege, the real world, and phonies. Drinks were imbibed. Too many drinks. They were two princes reflecting on it all. Schulberg later recounted the conversation for the film critic Richard Schickel.

“My father was so full of shit, because he pretends he’s just one of the people, just one of the guys,” Rogers told Schulberg. “But in our house the only people that ever came as guests were the richest people in town, the bankers and the power-brokers of L.A. And those were his friends and that’s where his heart is and he (was) really a goddamned reactionary.”

“Jesus, Will,” Schulberg replied. “You’d better keep your voice down, because you can’t knock Will Rogers … You can’t win without Will Rogers.”

Rogers Jr. did win the House seat, with the help of his father’s ghost. But his lament about his fraudulent papa stuck with his friend and inspired “Your Arkansas Traveler,” the best story in Schulberg’s 1953 collection, Some Faces in the Crowd.^[1]

I must admit as an Oklahoman and a long time reader and fan of Will Rogers that I am shocked. I will leave it to others to incorporate this information in the main story.

2600:1700:DC50:5560:D6C:BC6D:722F:85FD (talk) 00:39, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The movie properly refers to Pickett, Arkansas. The name, complete with spelling, can be seen on the wall in Lonesome Rhoades's final scenes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CorbettGM (talk • contribs) 10:31, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs to be corrected in one place Pickett is the fictional town in another it's the real town. Jmdeur (talk) 14:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The end of the plot summary has the following description: "But Rhodes only feels abandoned by Marcia finally settling for Miller and choosing to leave the world of Rhodes for the obscurity and banality of life with a minor league academic (“Vanderbilt ‘44”), who will very probably do no more in his life than smoke or drink himself into oblivion when, all too soon, he discovers that his world is not rescuable (not the least according to his ivory tower cynicism)."

There is nothing in the film to support this interpretation. Whoever wrote it was making a personal speculation about the nature of the characters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.102.179.49 (talk) 03:02, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]