Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staggered out of his bedroom the other morning, rubbing his eyes to wipe away the queer apparitions of early awakening, it dawned upon Edwin R. (call me Mickey) Rooney, Jr. '46 that he was sharing his suite with some real strangers...
Homer Macauley (Mickey Rooney) is a 14-year-old Postal Telegraph boy, "the fastest-moving thing in San Joaquin valley." He supports his fatherless family, runs the 220 low hurdles in school, is fresh to his history teacher and fights with a snob, one Hubert Ackley III. After school, Homer learns to be a man. His teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short...
...Saroyan touch leaves nothing ordinary; the film is electric with the joy of life. It gets this quality partly from the acting of Mickey Rooney, who, despite some persistent Andy Hardy mannerisms, is for once something besides a showoff. But the real star of The Human Comedy is five-year-old Jack Jenkins. When he startles a bearded scholar in the town library by suddenly poking his freckled, wistful face before the man's eyes, the film sings. Best scene is the one in which he learns the meaning of "I'm afraid." A human advertising robot...
Elsewhere in Wonderland arose the question of cinemacting's importance in total war. Raising the question was Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, who appealed the i-A draft classification of Mickey Rooney-first such appeal made by the industry. Grounds: he is an essential worker in an essential industry. Rooney's mother made it plain that her son was not doing the appealing himself. "It is true that he is only five feet tall, and has been bothered with heart flutter and high blood pressure," said she, "but Mickey wouldn't try to dodge his classification." Said Mickey...
Veteran Cinejuvenile Mickey Rooney, 22, and Wife Ava, 19, separated for the second time in 13 months of marriage...