Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Movie exhibitors reported that the cinemactor who had made them the most money in 1942 was a team: (Bud) Abbott & (Lou) Costello. The boisterous comics shouldered out boisterous Mickey Rooney, who slipped to fourth in the poll after leading it for three years. Second biggest moneymaker has been in the Army five months-Clark Gable, one of the top ten ever since the poll was first taken eleven years ago. Gary Cooper ran third. Newcomer to the golden gang: golden Betty Grable, who ran eighth...
...recent years he gave Mickey Rooney and Olivia de Havilland their start in the motion picture "The Midsummer Night's Dream," which he directed, and has since sent many young actors and actresses on the road to stardom...
First-Class Business. This windfall comes smack atop the biggest year in U.S. cinema history. The stampede to spend new-found cash and forget the war with Mickey Rooney or Hedy Lamarr has shoved movie attendance to almost 100,000,000 weekly, 15% above last year. Around war plants the flickers play to standees at every show, theater walls fairly bulge with ogling patrons. Result: total box-office take of 16,500 U.S. cinemansions this year will hit a record $1.3 billion-20% above the peak year...
...notable job. Kelly, who made a Broadway hit winter before last in Pal Joey, has flashes of acting intuition which should rate him a special berth, or perhaps a drawing room, in Hollywood. Bony-faced Judy Garland is already well-graduated from a sort of female Mickey Rooney into one of the more reliable song pluggers in the business. She also begins to show symptoms of dramatic sensitiveness, discipline and talent...
Domestic Relations Bureau: Ava Gardner, 19-year-old actress wife of Mickey Rooney since January, dropped her divorce suit, announced things were going to be patched up. From Rooney, still home with mother, came silence...