Adela Rogers St. Johns

Adela Rogers St. Johns

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Adela Rogers St. Johns was born Nora Adela Rogers on May 20, 1894 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers, a brilliant barrister who drank himself to death at an early age. Lionel Barrymore won a Best Actor Oscar playing a mouthpiece based on her father in A Free Soul (1931), which was based on a 1927 novel written by Adela. A story of hers was adapted into another talkie classic, What Price Hollywood? (1932), the precursor of the 1937's A Star Is Born (1937) and its two remakes.

  • When was
    Adela Rogers St. Johns born?

    Adela Rogers St. Johns was born on Sunday, May 20, 1894

  • Where was
    Adela Rogers St. Johns born?

    Adela Rogers St. Johns was born in Los Angeles, California, USA

  • How old was
    Adela Rogers St. Johns when they died?

    Adela Rogers St. Johns was 94

  • When did Adela Rogers St. Johns die?

    Adela Rogers St. Johns died on
    Wednesday, August 10, 1988


Best Quotes

  • The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
  • I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
  • There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
  • God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

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