going to improve her career unless she could participate in feature films. She discovered that working in feature films was more tedious. She played John Wayne's leading lady in the 1936 full-length motion picture Conflict and co-starred with Boris Karloff in the crime drama Night Key the following year. During the 1940s, Rogers appeared only in feature films, including The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940) with Lloyd Nolan, Viva Cisco Kid (1940) with Cesar Romero as the Cisco Kid, Design for Scandal (1941) with Rosalind Russell and Walter Pidgeon, Whistling in Brooklyn (1943) with Red Skelton, A Stranger in Town (1943) with Frank Morgan, Backlash (1947), and Speed to Spare (1948) with Richard Arlen. Still, she was unhappy with the studios, possibly because she was relegated to B-movie productions on a lower salary. She decided to freelance with companies such as 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Her last appearance was in a supporting role in the suspense film The Second Woman, made in 1950 by United Artists. Later life Rogers married Dan Winkler in 1943 after she was dropped by MGM. She continued freelancing until retiring in 1951. Because she starred mainly in low-budget films, she was never a top star. In a 1979 interview, she explained what it was like and why she decided not to play Dale Arden in the third Flash Gordon serial. Rogers was a lifelong Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election and a practicing Lutheran. She died in Sherman Oaks in 1991 at the age of 74 following surgery. She was later cremated and her ashes returned to her family. Selected filmography Footlight Parade (1933) as Chorus Girl (uncredited) Eight Girls in a Boat (1934) (with Dorothy Wilson) as School Girl (uncredited) Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) as Dancer (uncredited) Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934) as Radio Fan (uncredited) Dames (1934) as Chorus Girl (uncredited) Manhattan Moon (1935) (with ZaSu Pitts) as Joan Lady Tubbs (1935) as Debutante (uncredited) His Night Out (1935) as Information (uncredited) Stormy (1935) as Kerry Dorn Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935, Serial) (with Noah Beery, Jr.) as Betty Lou Barnes Fighting Youth (1935) as Blonde Student The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936 serial) (with Donald Briggs) as Elsie Belwood Don't Get Personal (1936) as Blondy Flash Gordon (1936, Serial) (with Buster Crabbe) as Dale Arden Spaceship to the Unknown (1936, edited serial)