Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yank at Eton (M.G.M.). Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head...
Through this misguided effort to effect Union Now by means of a boys' book, Mickey Rooney romps, yawps, mugs and clowns at such characteristic par that those fleecing moments when he is in repose have the surprise value of a Second Coming. Ian Hunter and Freddie Bartholomew, the Englishmen most painfully implicated, are more polite about it than there is any reason to expect of them. Tim's sister, Juanita Quigley, a fat little colleen with remarkable eyes, will bear watching...
...Coca-Cola, Monday evenings; the Jack Benny program while Benny is in New York; the Chesterfield program, three times weekly. He has also pocketed a juicy Hollywood contract, has played in two Class B pictures and. next January, will be featured in M.G.M.'s Girl Crazy with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. This year James has broken every record on every job he has played. Examples: for San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater he grossed $41,000 in seven days (previous record was Sammy Kaye's $35,000); at Manhattan's Astor Roof he grossed...
Sued for Divorce. Joe Yule Jr. ("Micky Rooney"), 21, veteran cine juvenile; by Ava Gardner, 19-year-old Hollywood newcomer from North Carolina; after eight months of marriage; in Los Angeles. "I just wasn't happy married to him," she explained. He said nothing. She said he earned $5,000 a week, asked a share in joint property she estimated at $200,000, plus "reasonable alimony...
Vaudeville's veteran Funnyman Pat Rooney II, 62, got a license to marry blonde Actress Janet Reade, onetime member of Eddie Cantor's Whoopee, one time wife of Funnyman Pat's son, Pat Rooney III. Said Pat Rooney II of Pat Rooney III: "I haven't seen him for some years." Said Actress Janet Reade: "I haven't seen him either. Anyway I like his father better. He's a funny little guy but I love...