Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haunting the cameras of Hollywood for the last few years has been an impish and rather repulsive face with a decided inclination towards mugging and hogging. That face is Mickey Rooney's gargoyle and exhibitionist extraordinary. True to form, Rooney has mugged and hogged his way through his latest picture. "Babes in Arms," but what is not in the least true to form, he's good! With only Judy Carland and Charles Winninger to help him drag a so-so cast through the script, he has taken the show on his own Napoleonic shoulders and carried it through to Garcia...
...What A Life," with Jackie Cooper, is an unsuccessful small-town drama which might have gone over with a better script, faster-paced direction, fewer cliches, and Mickey Rooney...
...Cadet out," scoffed Huey, "you're Rooney Maupin about like a killjoy. Put that drink Downing the Hatch, and don't spill it on your Frontezak. You Cantabs your mind made up. Huey says Harvard 7, Army...
...starting lineups: HARVARD ARMY MacKinney, l.e. l.e., Yeager Miller, l.t. l.t., Michel Peabody, l.g. l.g., Murphy Ayres, c. c., Gillis Pfister, r.g. r.g., Rooney Healey, r.t. r.t., Stella Lovett, r.e. r.e., Adams Coleman, q.b. q.b., Evans Spreyer, l.h. l.h., Hatch Lee, r.h. r.h., Dubuisson Heiden, f.b. f.b., Frontezak
...Mickey Rooney's father gave him his start, aged three, in the Yule family vaudeville act, and the two played together in silent comedies when Mickey was billed as Mickey McGuire. Divorced from Mickey's mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey...