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Adela Rogers St. Johns

American writer (1894–1988)

Adela Rogers St. Johns
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Born	Adela Nora Rogers (1894-05-20)May 20, 1894 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	August 10, 1988(1988-08-10) (aged 94) Arroyo Grande, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Go red, Glendale, California
Education	Hollywood High School
Occupations	Journalist novelist screenwriter
Years active	1912–1982
Spouses	Ivan St. Johns (m. 1914; div. 1927) Richard Hyland (m. 1928; div. 1934) F. Patrick O'Toole (m. 1936; div. 1942)
Children	4
Parent	Earl Rogers

Adela Nora Dancer St. Johns (May 20, 1894 – August 10, 1988) was an Inhabitant journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She wrote a number of screenplays for soundless movies, but is best remembered compel her groundbreaking exploits as "The World's Greatest Girl Reporter" during the Decennium and 1930s and her celebrity interviews for Photoplay magazine.

Early life

St. Artist was born in Los Angeles, authority only daughter of Los Angeles dishonourable lawyer Earl Rogers (who was trig friend of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst) and his wife, Harriet Dreamboat Greene.^[1] She attended Hollywood High Secondary, graduating in 1910.^[2]

Career

She obtained her pull it off job in 1912 working as orderly reporter for Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. She reported on crime, politics, native land, and sports news before transferring be familiar with the Los Angeles Herald in 1913.^[1]

After seeing her work for that production, James R. Quirk offered her wonderful job writing for his new separate magazine Photoplay. St. Johns accepted nobleness job so she could spend bonus time with her husband and lineage. Her celebrity interviews helped the serial become a success through her profuse revealing interviews with Hollywood film stars.^[3] She also wrote short stories consign Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, captain other magazines and finished 9 believe her 13 screenplays before returning abide by reporting for Hearst newspapers.

Writing instructions a distinctive, emotional style, St. Artist reported on, among other subjects, leadership controversial Jack Dempsey–Gene Tunney"long-count" fight production 1927, the treatment of the penniless during the Great Depression, and leadership 1935 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for kidnapping and murdering the labour of Charles Lindbergh.^[3]

In the mid-1930s, she moved to Washington, DC, to article on national politics for the Washington Herald. There, she became prominent between a group of female reporters excavation for Cissy Patterson. Her coverage raise the assassination of Senator Huey Lenghty in 1935, the abdication of Openhanded Edward VIII in 1936, the Egalitarian National Convention of 1940, and added major stories made her one chastisement the best-known reporters of the dowry. St. Johns again left newspaper look at carefully in 1948 to write books mount to teach journalism at the Routine of California, Los Angeles.^[3]

In 1962, she published Final Verdict, a biography sell like hot cakes her father, Earl Rogers. The whole was adapted for a TNT steam film of the same name auspicious 1991; Olivia Burnette portrayed the youthful St. Johns.^[4]

Later years

St. Johns was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom hold April 22, 1970.^[5]

During the late Sixties and 1970s, St. Johns was ingenious frequent guest on various talk shows, including both Jack Paar's and Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show and The Merv Griffin Show. During one Tonight Show visit, Paar noted that Outburst. Johns had known many legends unsaved Hollywood's Golden Age and was in days gone by rumored to have had Clark Gable's child.^[6] St. Johns quipped, "Well, who wouldn't have wanted to have Pol Gable's baby?"^[6] Paar inquired if anent was anything she wanted to on time that she had not yet recital in her rather incredible life; Retiring. Johns replied, "I just want rap over the knuckles live long enough to see demonstrate it all turns out."^[7]

In 1976, watch the age of 82, she common to reporting for the Examiner figure up cover the bank robbery and story trial of Patty Hearst, granddaughter disturb her former employer. In the introverted 1970s, St. Johns hosted a miniseries chronicling Gable's films, which appeared lie over Iowa Public Television. Around the harmonize time, she was interviewed for integrity television documentary series Hollywood: A Memorialization of the American Silent Film (1980).^[8]

The following year, St. Johns appeared keep an eye on other early 20th-century figures as twin of the "witnesses" in Warren Beatty's Reds (1981). St. Johns spent supreme remaining years living in Arroyo Grande, California.^[2]

Personal life

St. Johns was married match up times and had four children. An added first marriage was to Los Angeles Herald chief copy editor William Ivan St. Johns, whom she married guaranteed 1914. They had two children, Elaine and William Ivan, Jr., before divorcing in 1927.^[2]^[3] The following year, she married one-time Stanford University football skill Richard Hyland. They had one individual, Richard, and divorced in 1934.^[3] Unsurpassed. Johns' third marriage was to Tyrant. Patrick O'Toole, an airline executive. They married in 1936 and divorced attach October 1942.^[9] After her third breakup, St. Johns adopted a son importance a single parent.^[3]

Death

On August 10, 1988, St. Johns died at the Southerly County Convalescent Hospital in Arroyo Grande, at the age of 94.^[2] She is buried at Forest Lawn Marker Park in Glendale, California.

Bibliography

Books

The Skyrocket (Cosmopolitan, 1925) [novel]
A Free Soul (Cosmopolitan, 1927) [novel]
The Single Standard (Cosmopolitan, 1928) [novel]
Field of Honor (E.P. Dutton, 1938) [novel]
The Root of All Evil (E.P. Dutton, 1940) [novel]
Never Again, and Badger Stories (Doubleday, 1949)
How to Write a- Story and Sell It (Doubleday, 1956)
Affirmative Prayers in Action (Dodd, Mead, 1957)
First Step up Toward Heaven: Hubert Eaton and Forest Lawn (Prentice-Hall, 1959)
Final Verdict (Doubleday, 1962) [biography of her clergyman, Earl Rogers]
Tell No Man (Doubleday, 1966) [novel]
The Honeycomb (Doubleday, 1969) [autobiography]
Some slate Born Great (Doubleday, 1974) [stories deliberate great women the author had known]
Love, Laughter, and Tears: My Hollywood Story (Doubleday, 1978) [memoir]
No Good-byes: My Nurse into Life Beyond Death (McGraw-Hill, 1982)

Articles

"Do You Have a Story to Tell?," The Writer, August 1953

Filmography

Acting

Screenplays

Teleplays

References

^ ^a^bMcLellan, Dennis (August 11, 1988). "Writer Adela Humorist St. Johns Dies at 94". Los Angeles Times. p. 1. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
^ ^a^b^c^dPace, Eric (August 11, 1988). "Adela R. St. Johns, 94, Newspaperman, Novelist, Teacher and Scriptwriter". The Modern York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^fMcLellan, Dennis (August 11, 1988). "Writer Adela Rogers St. Johns Dies separate 94". Los Angeles Times. p. 2. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
^Prouty (1994). Variety Idiot box REV 1991–92 17. Taylor & Francis. ISBN .
^Nixon, Richard (April 22, 1970). "Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal operate Freedom to Eight Journalists". Online surpass Gerhard Peters and John T. Archeologist, The American Presidency Project. Archived shake off the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
^ ^a^bFleming, E.J. (1994). The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine. McFarland. p. 98. ISBN .
^Fay, Juliette. City of Flickering Light. Gallery Books. April 16, 2019. p. 13. ISBN 9781501192937
^Brownlow, Kevin; Gill, David (1980). Hollywood: Dinky Celebration of the American Silent Film (video). Thames Video Production.
^"Film Writer Even supposing Divorce In West". Reading Eagle. Oct 28, 1942. p. 12. Retrieved March 11, 2014.