Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House was debating the 1954 appropriations bill for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments last week, Brooklyn's fiery Representative John Rooney came forward with a surprise proposal. Said Democrat Rooney: the House should deny the heads of the three departments the right to fire civil servants without hearing...
...Limits (Paramount) casts durable Funnyman Bob Hope as a prizefight manager turned military policeman. Hope tangles with a frozen-faced sergeant (Eddie Mayehoff) and an apoplectic general, gets seasick watching his protege, MP Mickey Rooney, box on board a battleship, masterminds a championship fight via walkie-talkie and falls for Rooney's beautiful aunt (Marilyn Maxwell), easily the best-looking aunt of the year. Making brief personal appearances in the picture: Bing Crosby, Jack Dempsey, ex-Footballer Tom Harmon. The result, though no main movie event, is a fairly entertaining, lightweight preliminary...
Chick Chandler lost a hard-fought 8 to 4 decision to Edwin Rooney of Syracuse. Who went on to win the 157 pound divisional title...
...Ashore (Columbia) is an amiable little cinemusical with pretty girls, Technicolored scenery, several jingly songs-and practically no screenplay. The slapdash script follows three sailors (Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Ray McDonald) through their shore leave at Catalina. By the fadeout, at a lavish Polynesian beach party, they have each found a girl (Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrence, Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls...
...Mickey Rooney...