Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Annie Rooney (Small; United Artists) is that old rug-cutter Shirley Temple, now 13, brown-haired, weighing 102 lb., standing a fraction over five feet, and desperately trying to maneuver through girlhood without losing her cinemappeal. It is tough sledding. Shirley Temple fans will have to suffer such inanities as Annie Rooney until she gets her growth...
...picture is a swing version of the Little Annie Rooney that curly-locked Mary Pickford played to the last tear drop 17 years ago. Shirley is a modern jitterbug from the other side of the tracks. Her talents so stun a rich Manhattan youngster (Dickie Moore) that he invites her to his socialite birthday party. Clad in a glistening, gold-spangled evening dress, Cinderella Temple jitterbugs her way into the Social Register hearts of her boyfriend's parents...
...accuse poor Mr. DeMille of doing its casting; thirty minutes of this opus will convince anyone that its parts were dished out by either the neighborhood horsedoctor or Mickey Rooney. Paulette Goddard, whom we recall quite pleasantly as a sweater-girl from her native Bronx, is made-up into a Southern belle with absolutely ghastly effect. John Wayne plays the dumb-but-honest-lug-who-goes-wrong--a part admirably in-harmony with his facial expressions; and Ray Milland, completing the triangle, is thoroughly helpless with lines that no Booth could have carried...
Star of the serial is brassbound Mickey Rooney. In Courtship, Mickey is a big boy now, working, paying for his board, enjoying his father's (Lewis Stone's) adult confidence. Somewhat subdued, Mickey acts his age, cuts his mugging and scene swiping to a pardonable minimum...
...Mickey Rooney's bride of five weeks, Ava Gardner, had out her appendix in Hollywood, in a hurry...