# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-rodgers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:20:45.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-rodgers"
name: "Mary Rodgers"
slug: "mary-rodgers"
description: "Mary Rodgers was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the 1972 novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions. Her best-known musicals were Once Upon a Mattress and The Mad Show, and she contributed songs to Marlo Thomas' successful 1972 children's album Free to Be... You and Me."
tagline: "American composer, screenwriter, children's writer (1931–2014)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gwYhUhQ6Y7SeG05XFyG6stuoL1Y.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-01-11"
deathDate: "2014-06-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.93
  momentum:             15.00429368827823
  historical:           14.28388
  currentAttention:     8.8
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734742/"
    handle:    "nm0734742"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ماري رودجرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارى رودجرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "مری راجرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%92'%D7%A8%D7%A1"
    title: "מרי רוג'רס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "మేరీ రోడ్జెర్స్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rodgers"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81"
    title: "Мері Роджерс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435135"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1485215"
    title: "Mary Rodgers"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump