February movies
Movies show daily at Will Rogers Memorial Museum
Will Rogers starred in 21 20th Century Fox movies, was the hero in 50 silent films and was the top box office star of his time. Many of his movies have reference to his Rogers County and Cherokee heritage.
Will’s movies are shown continuously in the Will Rogers Museum Mini Theater during open hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Spend an enjoyable hour or so in the Museum watching the funny antics of Will Rogers.
You have an extra day in February (this is leap year with a February 29). Put it on your calendar now to spend at the Museum watching Will cast as an Oklahoman razor-blade king in “Business and Pleasure.”
Released in 1932, one of the co-stars is Joel McCrea, who became a great friend of Will Rogers and a frequent visitor to the Claremore Museum.
As Earl Tinker, Will, his wife and daughter are on a cruise ship enroute to buy the secret of Damascus steel. Crossing the Atlantic, Olivia (the daughter) meets Lawrence Ogle (McCrea), and a romance develops.
The real story is the interference of a scheming foreigner, trying to find out just what Tinker intends to do with the steel. It backfires when he hides behind a beard and moustache.
The movie is adapted from Booth Tarkington’s “The Plutocrat.”
