Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life are mostly tight-lipped about their memories. Back home in North Carolina, a boy who used to squire her will only say that she was a nice little country girl with a better-than-average figure. Husband No. 1, brash little Mickey Rooney, declares stiffly: "I have a code of ethics, and it doesn't include talking about my ex-wives." Husband No. 2, Bandleader Artie Shaw, says: "She is a nice girl. I feel complete detachment." Potential Husband No. 3, Crooner Frank Sinatra (now on the hunt for a divorce), is on record as saying only that...
...they find one they like, Feuer & Martin conceived the idea for the Bolger show (a musical version of Charley's Aunt), built it from the ground up. Inspired by the late Damon Runyon's raffish fables, they did the same with Guys and Dolls. Except for Pat Rooney Sr., who last appeared in a Manhattan playhouse in 1918, none of the new show's principals has ever played in a Broadway musical before. But Guys and Dolls, three months old, will recoup its $177,000 investment before the end of March, send out a touring company this...
Hollywood home life was having its usual ups & downs. After another spat with Martha Vickers, his third wife, quick-tempered Mickey Rooney, 30, huffed off to live with his mother for a while. After seven months of marriage, Elizabeth Taylor, 18, and Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 23, decided to try a separation test...
Favorite exhibit on a floating waxworks plying the rivers and canals of Belgium and France: a Pullman car scene, labeled "Honeymoon in Arizona," with Mickey Rooney in an upper berth, Judy Garland in a lower, both gazing at some painted Indians...
...Robinson's puberty-conscious son, Peter, Andy Hardy has a British accent and a British jalopy. Peter's romantic embarrassments are lighter than Hardy's, but a Rooney adolescent in middle class England seems a bit implausible...