Buddy Rogers

This Buddy Rogers should not be confused with the professional wrestler of the same name, the one who was known as the original "nature boy." Not that the performer Buddy Rogers -- a vocalist, musician, big band leader, and actor -- had anything to complain about. In fact, the wrestler was probably jealous that he wasn't the other Buddy Rogers, who among other things got to marry gorgeous starlet Mary Pickford. Talent was also something that the non-wrestling Rogers was said to have had a great deal of; among other things, he was known to be the only big band leader able to play every instrument in the orchestra. Rogers began his performing career as a musician, but for awhile managed to keep both an acting and a music career going strong and on parallel tracks.



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