- Full second cousin to actor Humphrey Bogart; her grandmother and his grandfather were brother and sister.
- Sister of writer Bogart Rogers.
- Great-great grandmother of actress Kaylin Stewart and actor Riley Thomas Stewart.
- Mother of producer Richard R. St. Johns.
- American journalist, novelist and screenwriter who wrote scores of screenplays for silent movies. Later in life, she appeared with other early 20th-century figures as one of the "witnesses" in Warren Beatty's epic film Reds (1981).
- Best remembered for her groundbreaking exploits as a "girl reporter" during the 1920s and 1930s, she got her first job at age 19 working as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.
- Daughter of a prominent Los Angeles criminal lawyer Earl Rogers, she published "Final Verdict" (1962), a biography of her father.
- Among her most notorious subjects: the controversial Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney "long-count" fight in 1927; the treatment of the poor during the Great Depression; the 1935 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for kidnapping and murdering the son of Charles Lindbergh; her coverage of the assassination of Senator Huey Long in 1935; the abdication of King Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) in 1936; and the Democratic National Convention of 1940.
- Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 756-758. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1999).
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6424 Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- Following her death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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