Billy the Kid on Film, 1911-2012
Johnny D. Boggs
“I''m not sure exactly what they paid the other Roy Rogers,” Rogers said, “but he walked away a happy man; and I walked away with a whole new identity.”75 Rogers, of course, went on to become the King of the Cowboys, supplementing his $150-a-week Republic salary with evening performances at theaters for $150 a night. His celebrity status grew so much that he was one of many actors invited to the White House for the March of Dimes Ball on President Franklin D. Roosevelt''s ...