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Canonical name

St. Johns, Adela Rogers

Other names

Rogers, Adela Nora (birth)

Birthdate

Date of death

Gender

female

Nationality

USA

Birthplace

Los Angeles, California, USA

Place of death

Arroyo Grande, California, USA

Places of residence

Washington, D.C., USA

Occupations

journalist
novelist
screenwriter

Organizations

San Francisco Examiner
Photoplay

Awards and honors

Presidential Medal of Freedom ()

Agent

Edith Haggard

Short biography

: The daughter of a San Francisco criminal lawyer who was good friends with publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, Adela Rogers got her first job at age 19 working as a cub reporter for Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. She eventually rose to become one of the paper's ace reporters and was on han

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Adela Rogers St. Johns was born Nora Adela Rogers on May 20, 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 (), which was based on a novel written by Adela. A story of hers was adapted into another talkie classic, What Price Hollywood? (), the precursor of the 's A Star Is Born () and its two remakes.

Earl Rogers, a lawyer whose reputation for winning acquittals in seemingly hopeless cases was so great that another legend of the bar, Clarence Darrow, used his services in a jury tampering case, was a friend of newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. As a nineteen-year-old, the teen-aged Adela became a reporter for "San Francisco Examiner", Hearst's self-heralded "Monarch of the Dailies". As a cub reporter working her way up the ranks, she covered everything from crime and sports to politics and high society.

She quit the newspaper racket in the early part of The Roaring Twenties to became a freelance writer. During the halcyon years of The Jazz Age, she made her living interviewing celebrities for "Photoplay Magazine", the prem

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Adela Rogers Bounce. Johns

American essayist (–)

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Born	Adela Nora Rogers ()May 20, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	August 10, () (aged&#;94) Arroyo Grande, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Creep Memorial Afterglow, Glendale, California
Education	Hollywood High School
Occupations	Journalist novelist screenwriter
Years&#;active	–
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Children	4
Parent	Earl Rogers

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Early life

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