Legendary Actor Mickey Rooney Dies at 93 (Report)

Aw. A true Legend. He will be missed by generations of people he gave so much to.

R.I.P. Micky :heart::tears:
 
Awww....and the world just got a little dimmer today.... :(
 
Love him. He starred in a very underrated/never shown/isn't even on DVD for sale (just VHS) Christmas movie called It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - one of my favorites...RIP Mr. Rooney...
 
He was great in Babe 2: Pig in the city. Al Jazeera America just reported that he turned down the role of Archie Bunker.
 
My Mickey Rooney favorites are Little Lord Fauntleroy and National Velvet. DH and I saw Mickey with Ann Miller in the musical review Sugar Babies at the Fisher Theatre (Detroit) when the show was touring nationally in late '70s/early '80s. :rose:
 
I love all the Andy Hardy movies. Never tire of watching them. Yeah, they're corny...but so am I.
 
More articles:

Legendary actor Mickey Rooney dies at 93
By Alan Duke and Todd Leopold, CNN
updated 2:33 PM EDT, Mon April 7, 2014


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The diminutive 5-foot, 2-inch Rooney began his acting career shortly after his first birthday, appearing on vaudeville stages with his parents. He was born Joseph Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York.

His parents split when he was young, but spurred by his mother, he soon found himself in Hollywood. Before he was 10, he was a star, appearing in dozens of shorts based on the popular "Mickey McGuire" strip

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/07/showbiz/mickey-rooney-obit/
 
Mickey Rooney, with gumption and grit, put on a show
By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic
April 7, 2014, 4:00 a.m.


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Rooney seems to have come by his trademark industriousness and resilience honestly. He was born Joe Yule Jr., the son of two vaudevillians who took constant movement and hard knocks as a matter of course. He began his stage career as a toddler and his first film role came in 1926 when, at age 6, he apparently played a midget in something called "Not to Be Trusted."

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http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...-rooney-appreciation-20140408,0,4196162.story
 
I love all the Andy Hardy movies. Never tire of watching them. Yeah, they're corny...but so am I.


:seeya: Totally agree -- about the Andy Hardy movies !

:loveyou: those movies !
 
Yes, he was making silent movies in the 1920s and films in the 2010s so he appeared in movies in 10 different decades.

Strangely, I only have one Mickey Rooney movie on DVD and I just happened to watch it last night before I heard that he had died. It's a 1950 crime film entitled Quicksand that he made when he was 29 or 30. The movie isn't a comedy as you might suspect from Mr. Rooney and is actually quite good.

Ava was some dish.

R.I.P. Mickey
 
He was married 8 times which tied him with bandleader Artie Shaw, Lana Turner, Larry King and Elizabeth Taylor, although some say she should tally 7.5 since she wed Richard Burton twice. All are behind Zsa Zsa Gabor with 9.

Ava Gardner was married to both Rooney and Shaw.
 
He was married 8 times which tied him with bandleader Artie Shaw, Lana Turner, Larry King and Elizabeth Taylor, although some say she should tally 7.5 since she wed Richard Burton twice. All are behind Zsa Zsa Gabor with 9.

Ava Gardner was married to both Rooney and Shaw.

Make that 7.5 for Turner and King also since they remarried ex-spouses.

Broadway composer Alan Jay Lerner also married 8 women.
 
EXCLUSIVE - A tearful last message of love to the wife 'he was kept from' and a vicious family war over his cash: The wretched last days of screen legend Mickey Rooney who died 'choking on his food'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-away-wife-family-wages-war-star-funeral.html

The clash over money was between his stepsons, where were his biological children? Boohoo for the stepson owing Mickey $75k after he spent a few of Mickey's millions. Was never crazy about MR (probably mostly saw him in Breakfast at Tiffany's and he was terribly miscast) but what a sad end.
 
Mickey Rooney's will details final wishes

ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP
15 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mickey Rooney signed his last will just weeks before death, leaving a modest estate to a stepson who had been his caretaker, but the actor had no intention of ending his Hollywood career anytime soon, his attorney said Tuesday.

Rooney's death Sunday occurred after the actor began to have difficulty breathing during an afternoon nap, attorney Michael Augustine said. The actor had been in good spirits and was looking forward to continuing to appear in movies after filming a scene for the upcoming installment of the "Night at the Museum" franchise.

Augustine said Rooney, 93, passed a physical required before he could start filming and his death was due to natural causes, including complications related to diabetes...

...Rooney's will was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. It was signed by Rooney on March 11 and called for his stepson Mark Rooney and his wife to be the sole beneficiaries of the actor's estate, which is valued at only $18,000...

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20140409/US-Mickey-Rooney/
 
Mickey Rooney (1920 - 2014)

Mickey Rooney was a little man who enjoyed a big career and a larger-than-life persona. Born into a family of vaudeville performers, he was pushed on stage before he could talk and never let up, appearing in hundreds of movies, TV shows, plays, casinos and gossip columns. He had a hunger for life and work that belied his small stature, marrying eight times, earning and losing millions of dollars on several occasions, and seemingly accepting any invitation to perform, whether it was a dinner theater or the Academy Awards. Outliving most of his Golden Age contemporaries, he carved out a unique place in show business history that spanned generations of fans. And even though his career reached its peak in the 1930s with his onscreen partnership with Judy Garland, he continued to win awards and accolades well into the 21st century...

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/971479|0/Memorial-Tribute-to-Mickey-Rooney-4-13.html

The Courtship of Andy Hardy is featured this afternoon (Saturday) at 4:00PM (EDT) on TCM.
 
What horrible people surrounded him. People should be in prison for what they've done.
 

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