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Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns (May 20, 1894 – August 10, 1988) was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She wrote a number of screenplays for silent movies, but is best remembered for her groundbreaking exploits as "The World's Greatest Girl Reporter" during the 1920s and 1930s and her celebrity interviews for Photoplay magazine.
Mar 22, 2016 · When she was involved in a brawl outside the New York bar Bill’s Gay Nineties in the summer of 1937, TIME identified Adela Rogers St. Johns as a “ Cinemauthor “—a portmanteau that demonstrated...
Aug 6, 2024 · Adela Rogers St. Johns (born May 20, 1894, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died Aug. 10, 1988, Arroyo Grande, Calif.) was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter best known as a reporter for Hearst newspapers and for her interviews of motion picture stars.
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Aug 11, 1988 · Adela Rogers St. Johns, the veteran reporter and best-selling author whose colorful career spanned more than six decades and took her among the leading news makers of several eras, died...
Aug 11, 1988 · Adela Rogers St. Johns, the journalist, author and screenwriter, died yesterday morning in the South County Convalescent Hospital in Arroyo Grande, Calif., her grandson, George St. Johns, said....
Adela Rogers St. Johns, born Adela Rogers in Los Angeles, California, in 1894, was the daughter of Earl Rogers and Harriet Greene Rogers. An avid reader and writer from childhood on, she published her first story in the Los Angeles Times in 1903, at age nine.
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Oct 19, 2022 · After meeting Jane Murfin in last month’s column and hearing about her contribution to What Price Hollywood? (1932), it is time to meet that film’s co-writer: Adela Rogers St. Johns.
