Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hara followed the suit of Brenda Marshall and William Holden, had her appendix taken out... Deanna Durbin got laryngitis...Ralph Bellamy and Pat O'Brien helped two lifeguards struggling with a riptide rescue a foundering swimmer.... Under serious consideration as a new comedy team: Greta Garbo and Mickey Rooney....Back from summer barnstorming, Luise Rainer emoted to Manhattan reporters: "I saw cows . . . and then I knew that all my life I had been longing to see cows with bells around their necks again...
...showed themselves at Los Angeles' "Moon Festival" for United China Relief, but it was silken-banged Anna May Wong who rode in the parade with Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Supporting cast of more than 100 in the charity festival included Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney. Result: for China's sufferers, roughly...
Durable Spencer Tracy (Father Flanagan) splashes through this pail of tears with an undampened performance. Kazoo-voiced Mickey Rooney (the mayor) very nearly drowns. The paying customers, unfortunately, are not provided with rain checks...
...Mickey Rooney is still Mickey-Rooney, but his clowning and wise antics in "Andy Hardy's Private Secretary" are still packing the house regardless of the size of the Cambridge delegation. Few class presidents ever had as much trouble graduating from high school as activities man Rooney has when an English exam throws him. But helped in a cram session by the two talented lads and sweetheart Judy Garland as Polly, he pulls the coals out of the fire, and now Andy Hardy fans are impatiently awaiting his choice of a college...
...mumbles his lines in his gullet or grimaces slightly to keep pace with his blind eye and scarred forehead. Miss Leigh changes the key completely by winking, pouting and fanning the air like a signalman. Her dramatic progress has left her only a gender's distance from Mickey Rooney. The picture provides the sort of lethargic Mother Goose history which does not make movies, just monumental boredom...