on May 25, 1965, age 82. Selected bibliography 1914 When to Lock the Stable 1918 How Motion Pictures Are Made 1918 Boone Stop 1920 Turkey Bowman 1923 West of the Water Tower (made into the lost 1923 silent film West of the Water Tower) 1924 R.F.D. No. 3 1926 They Had to See Paris (made into Will Rogers' first sound film They Had to See Paris in 1929) 1929 Coney Island 1932 Headed for Hollywood 1938 Sixteen Hands (made into the 1939 film I'm from Missouri) 1942 Family Honeymoon 1947 Corn Country 1949 Jesse James Was My Neighbor 1952 He Hanged Them High 1953 Our Will Rogers 1959 Star Maker: The Story of D.W. Griffith Selected motion picture credits 1932 Down to Earth (co-screenplay with Edwin J. Burke; a follow-up to They Had to See Paris) 1933 The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (one of five credited screenwriters) 1936 The Harvester (one of four credited screenwriters) See also Lee Shippey, with whom Croy roomed in Paris during World War I References External links University of Missouri biography MSN Filmography Article by Croy about Will Rogers Contemporary Anthology of Croy's best Midwestern Nonfictions 1883 births 1965 deaths People from Maryville, Missouri Novelists from Missouri American humorists 20th-century American novelists American autobiographers American male screenwriters American male novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American biographers American male biographers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers Screenwriters from Missouri 20th-century American screenwriters