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Death. Rogers died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, on April 21, 1999, at the age of 94 of natural causes, and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Cathedral City, near Palm Springs. [11]
Apr 22, 1999 · Buddy Rogers, the silent screen matinee idol and bandleader who spent half his life tending the lady and legend known as America’s Sweetheart and the world’s first real movie star, Mary Pickford,...
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Apr 22, 1999 · TIMES STAFF WRITER. Buddy Rogers, the silent screen matinee idol and bandleader who spent half his life tending the lady and legend known as America’s Sweetheart and the world’s first real movie...
He was married to Mary Pickford for forty-two years, until her death, and adopted two children. He appeared as a secondary character in scores of movies, and later became a frequent guest star on TV. Rogers died at age ninety-two in California.
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- Olathe, Kansas, USA
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- Rancho Mirage, California, USA
Charles (Buddy) Rogers, handsome leading man and band leader who starred in Wings (1927), first film to win an Academy Award, and who later married Mary Pickford, dies at 94; photos (M)
Both children married in their late teens, and Ronnie became so troubled that he once attempted suicide. Pickford went to see him in the hospital, complaining that he had interrupted a...
Bow spent her last years in Culver City, under the constant care of a nurse, Estalla Smith, living off an estate worth about $500,000 at the time of her death. [145] In 1965, at age 60, she died of a heart attack, which her autopsy attributed to atherosclerosis.
