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Rogers returns to accept award
University Daily Kansan, October 8, 1984
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
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Fifty-eight years after the silver screen beckoned him, Charles "Buddy" Rogers returned to his alma mater to accept the first Life Achievement OZZI award given by the Kansas Film Institute.
Looking dapper in a blue blazer with gold buttons, the 1928 KU graduate received the award last night during the final day of the Kansas Film and Video Festival, began Friday in Dyeh Audiotourism.
After receiving the award, Rogers attended an invitation-only reception at the residence of Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
ROGERS, WHOSE FILM career spanned 31 years, said he had never dreamed of becoming a movie star* But at his father's urging, he made a screen test for Paramount Pictures while enrolled at the University of Kansas.
His first love was music, however,
and Rogers mixed it with his film
career. For instance, in 1936 he
appeared with his orchestra, the California Cavaliers, in a film titled "Pirate Party of Catalina Isle."
Rogers still practices various musical instruments at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
"I still do jam sessions," he said night before. He was one of his 187 guests. "My Best Girl," My Best Girl
About 50 people attended the movie last night. Rogers greeted young and old admirers and signed several autographs.
Rogers, now a silver haired 80,
made his first film in 1926 for
Paramount. Starring roles in 52 more
films followed.
"I NEVER THOUGHT of acting on campus," said Rogers, who is an alumnus of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
"I didn't want my fraternity brothers to know I was going to be an actor so I kept it kind of quiet." Rogers, the Olathe native, said.
But America couldn't keep his stardom quiet for long. Dubbing him "America's Boyfriend," the media portrayed him as a boy in 1937, he married "America's Sweetheart," Mary Pickford. Pickford died in 1979
of a stroke at their mansion,
"Pickfair."
The same year he made "My Best Girl" with Pickford, Rogers starred with Clara Bow and Gary Cooper in "Wings," which won the first Academy Award for best picture.
"Wings" will be shown at 10:30 a.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas University. Rogers will make a personal appearance.
AS FILMING OF "Wings" progressed in San Antonio, Texas, word spread that Al Jolson spoke and sang in another film, "The Jazz Singer," the first "talkie" that sent shock waves through the film industry, Roers said.
"Jolson was making one and it was on everyone's mind," he said. "We were worried about the voices."
But actors and actresses embraced the "talkies," he said.
Now Rogers, who remarried in 1981, doesn't concern himself with the fast-paced life of a Hollywood movie star, he said. He devotes his time to charitable causes and takes in an occasional movie.
"I'm not a critic," he said. "I go to see the pictures. I watch them. I enjoy them."
Charles "Buddy" Rogers stands in front of a scene from a 1936 movie called "The Pirate Party of Catalina Isle," in which he and his orchestra appeared. Rogers accepted the Life Achievement OZZI award last night in Dyche Auditorium. The Olathe native had starring roles in 53 movies and is one of the few movie stars from Kansas.
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