Will Rogers was Hollywood's highest-paid actor but preferred cowboy life, great-granddaughter says

Will Rogers was Hollywood's highest-paid actor in the '30s but preferred cowboy life over fame, according to his great-granddaughter, Jennifer Rogers-Etcheverry of Oklahoma.

"He never forgot where he came from in Oklahoma. He never forgot being a cowboy."

"And he was contracted with Fox to make several movies, which he did not get to finish his contract, but he would crank them out just so he could go travel, go right on the ranch, go play polo, go do something."

Rogers owned a 186-acre ranch in the Pacific Palisades, California, that burned down in January in the Los Angeles fires.