- Publicist before he entered films, his firm, Rogers, Cowan & Jacobs, represented Judy Garland, David O. Selznick, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, Richard Burton, James Stewart, Gregory Peck and the Principality of Monaco.
- He had suffered a severe heart attack four years before he had another, dying in his sleep at home.
- He was a chain smoker and heavy drinker who never took exercise, ate indiscriminately and worked long hours at a frantic pace. He was once described as "a heart attack waiting to happen", and did die of a heart attack at only 51.
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