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Mickey Rooney could do anything. Thanks for the memories.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
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RIP His was a great talent.
Thanks for those clips Mark, what a sweet and innocent start to the day .
Thanks for those clips Mark, what a sweet and innocent start to the day .
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Thought he had already died. R.I.P.
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MICKEY ROONEY
Peace at Last?
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Mickey Rooney(1920-2014) was an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He died yesterday.
He received multiple awards, including a Juvenile Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. Working as a performer since he was a child, he was a superstar as a teenager for the films in which he played Andy Hardy, and he has had one of the longest careers of any actor, spanning 92 years actively making films in ten decades, from the 1920s to the 2010s. For a younger generation of fans, he gained international fame for his leading role as Henry Dailey in The Family Channel's The Adventures of the Black Stallion.
He was married 8 times, had 9 kids, and appears to have never found peace maritally; on his death he was separated from with his last marital partner of 46 years. Rooney had 19 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. You can read the details of his life-narrative at Wikipedia.
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The year 1937 was a big one for Rooney. That year he was selected to portray Andy Hardy in A Family Affair.Rooney's role was to provide comic relief. The film was an unexpected success, and led to 13 more Andy Hardyfilms between 1937 and 1946. Rooney also received top billing, that same year, as "Shockey Carter" in Hoosier Schoolboy. Rooney made his first film alongside Judy Garland in 1937 with Thoroughbreds Don't Cry. It was here that Rooney came into the life of my family. The year 1937 was a big one in the history of a Cause I have been associated with now for more than 60 years.(1)
I won't give you chapter and verse of Rooney's life and the many ways in which a certain synchronicity played itself out between his life, my life, and the lives of my parents. In 1944, the year I was born, Rooney enlisted in the United States Army. His first television series, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, appeared on NBC television for 32 episodes between August 28, 1954 and June 4, 1955. My mother, thinking TV would have a bad effect on my studies, sold our television shortly after this series, but I remember Rooney even though I was only eleven in 1955. He is even more in my memory-bank since I was not to have a TV in my home again until 1977 during my second marriage when I was in my 30s.
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What a roller-coaster ride
your life was, Mickey!!. I
only saw you occasionally
after those TV episodes in
the 1950s; you popped-up
in all sorts of movies & TV
programs before and after I
retired. Now you are gone!!(2)
I wish you well in that Land
of Light which I'm told is a
better place than this one in
which one suffers the slings
and arrows of an outrageous
fortune and, sometimes, takes
arms against a sea of troubles.
To die, to sleep, as the Bard
put it, to end the heartache &
the 1000 natural shocks that
flesh is heir to. Mickey, 'tis a
consummation to be wished.(3)
1 In 1937 the North American Baha'i community launched a series of teaching and consolidation, service and social activism plans which I have been associated with now for more than 60 years.
2 I retired in 1999 after a 50 year student and employment life: 1949 to 1999, and slowly reinvented myself as a writer and author, poet and publisher, online blogger and journalist. Rooney died 15 years into my retirement. I was age 70; he was 93.
3 Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene I, in the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
Ron Price
7 April 2014.
Peace at Last?
Part 1:
Mickey Rooney(1920-2014) was an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He died yesterday.
He received multiple awards, including a Juvenile Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. Working as a performer since he was a child, he was a superstar as a teenager for the films in which he played Andy Hardy, and he has had one of the longest careers of any actor, spanning 92 years actively making films in ten decades, from the 1920s to the 2010s. For a younger generation of fans, he gained international fame for his leading role as Henry Dailey in The Family Channel's The Adventures of the Black Stallion.
He was married 8 times, had 9 kids, and appears to have never found peace maritally; on his death he was separated from with his last marital partner of 46 years. Rooney had 19 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. You can read the details of his life-narrative at Wikipedia.
Part 2:
The year 1937 was a big one for Rooney. That year he was selected to portray Andy Hardy in A Family Affair.Rooney's role was to provide comic relief. The film was an unexpected success, and led to 13 more Andy Hardyfilms between 1937 and 1946. Rooney also received top billing, that same year, as "Shockey Carter" in Hoosier Schoolboy. Rooney made his first film alongside Judy Garland in 1937 with Thoroughbreds Don't Cry. It was here that Rooney came into the life of my family. The year 1937 was a big one in the history of a Cause I have been associated with now for more than 60 years.(1)
I won't give you chapter and verse of Rooney's life and the many ways in which a certain synchronicity played itself out between his life, my life, and the lives of my parents. In 1944, the year I was born, Rooney enlisted in the United States Army. His first television series, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, appeared on NBC television for 32 episodes between August 28, 1954 and June 4, 1955. My mother, thinking TV would have a bad effect on my studies, sold our television shortly after this series, but I remember Rooney even though I was only eleven in 1955. He is even more in my memory-bank since I was not to have a TV in my home again until 1977 during my second marriage when I was in my 30s.
Part 3:
What a roller-coaster ride
your life was, Mickey!!. I
only saw you occasionally
after those TV episodes in
the 1950s; you popped-up
in all sorts of movies & TV
programs before and after I
retired. Now you are gone!!(2)
I wish you well in that Land
of Light which I'm told is a
better place than this one in
which one suffers the slings
and arrows of an outrageous
fortune and, sometimes, takes
arms against a sea of troubles.
To die, to sleep, as the Bard
put it, to end the heartache &
the 1000 natural shocks that
flesh is heir to. Mickey, 'tis a
consummation to be wished.(3)
1 In 1937 the North American Baha'i community launched a series of teaching and consolidation, service and social activism plans which I have been associated with now for more than 60 years.
2 I retired in 1999 after a 50 year student and employment life: 1949 to 1999, and slowly reinvented myself as a writer and author, poet and publisher, online blogger and journalist. Rooney died 15 years into my retirement. I was age 70; he was 93.
3 Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene I, in the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
Ron Price
7 April 2014.
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No arguing the man was a legend and his passing is something that should be acknowledged. Personally, I always thought he was overrated as an actor, but he was a Hollywood icon who had an amazing career. His work as Andy Hardy and his films with Judy Garland were enough to earn him icon status alone. RIP, Mr. Rooney.
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It's been several months since I was last here and it's been more than 5 months since Rooney's passing. I found it interesting, indeed, quite sad, that Rooney signed his will several weeks prior to his death. In 2011, about 3 years before his death, Rooney learned that basically everything he had worked for since the age of two was gone. At the time of his death his estate was worth a mere US $18,000. He left his estate to stepson Mark Rooney. Mark had been Mickey's son, confidant,caregiver and friend since Mark was a child and they always had a special bond, Rooney was quoted as saying. Mark added Rooney to his name at Mickey's request and agreed out of respect to both fathers. Shortly after Mickey's death his estranged children and wife bitterly contested the will freezing its assets. His wife, Jan Rooney is receiving Mickey's pensions of US $8,400 per month as well as Rooney's social security benefits and is living with her son Chris Aber, who Rooney had previously accused of elder abuse and fraud." There is more at Wikipedia, FYI, at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rooney#Marriages
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No arguing the man was a legend and his passing is something that should be acknowledged. Personally, I always thought he was overrated as an actor, but he was a Hollywood icon who had an amazing career. His work as Andy Hardy and his films with Judy Garland were enough to earn him icon status alone. RIP, Mr. Rooney.
Rooney was a good actor, and was doing stagework on Broadway at certain points in his life. He had chops, see The Black Stallion, see Bill.
Was going to hit quote button and I accidentaly pos repped that Rooney was a good actor, and was doing stagework on Broadway at certain points in his life. He had chops, see The Black Stallion, see Bill.
Rooney was a good actor, and was doing stagework on Broadway at certain points in his life. He had chops, see The Black Stallion, see Bill.
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It's been 7 months since Rooney's passing and I think a word is apt about his legacy before we put him to bed for good, at least on this thread. I often follow actors from a personal perspective and, in the process, try to connect them with important aspects of my life. For this I rely on the indulgence of readers for whom my personal experience will not really be that relevant.-Ron Price, Australia
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Rooney was one of the last surviving actors of the silent picture era. His movie career spanned 88 years, from 1926 to 2014. During his peak years from the late 1930s to the early 1940s, when I was born, Rooney was among the top box-office stars in the United States. He co-starred with other leading actors of the time, including Judy Garland, Wallace Beery and Spencer Tracy. Between the age of 15 and 25 he made forty-three pictures. By 1945 and with those 43 pictures behind him, I was one year old and, of course, knew nothing about him or much else for that matter.
Among those 43 films, his role as Andy Hardy became one of "Hollywood's best-loved characters," with Marlon Brando calling him "the best actor in films." For his acting the part in fifteen Andy Hardy films, he received an honorary Oscar in 1938 for "bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth" and for "setting a high standard of ability and achievement." By 1938 a Teaching Plan, one that I have been associated with now for more than 60 years, was in its infancy, was one year old.
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Rooney became an MGM standard, a success vehicle for MGM. He was noted for his ability to act, sing, dance, clown, and play various musical instruments, most of which he did with apparent ease and raw talent. "There was nothing he couldn't do," said actress Margaret O'Brien. MGM boss Louis B. Mayer treated him like a son and saw in Rooney "the embodiment of the amiable American boy who stands for family, humbug, and sentiment," writes critic and author, David Thomson. By the time Rooney was 20 in 1940, his consistent portrayals of characters with youth and energy suggested that his future success was unlimited. Thomson also explains that Rooney's characters were able to cover a wide range of emotional types, and gives three examples where "Rooney is not just an actor of genius, but an artist able to maintain a stylized commentary on the demon impulse of the small, belligerent man:"
Rooney's Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), which came out as the Baha's of North America were putting together their first systematic teaching plan, is truly inhuman, one of cinema's most arresting pieces of magic. . . . His toughie in Boys Town (1938) struts and bullies like something out of a nightmare and then comes clean in a grotesque but utterly frank outburst of sentimentality in which he aspires to the boy community. . . . His role as Baby Face Nelson (1957), the manic, destructive response of the runt against a pig society.
It's been 7 months since Rooney's passing and I think a word is apt about his legacy before we put him to bed for good, at least on this thread. I often follow actors from a personal perspective and, in the process, try to connect them with important aspects of my life. For this I rely on the indulgence of readers for whom my personal experience will not really be that relevant.-Ron Price, Australia
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Rooney was one of the last surviving actors of the silent picture era. His movie career spanned 88 years, from 1926 to 2014. During his peak years from the late 1930s to the early 1940s, when I was born, Rooney was among the top box-office stars in the United States. He co-starred with other leading actors of the time, including Judy Garland, Wallace Beery and Spencer Tracy. Between the age of 15 and 25 he made forty-three pictures. By 1945 and with those 43 pictures behind him, I was one year old and, of course, knew nothing about him or much else for that matter.
Among those 43 films, his role as Andy Hardy became one of "Hollywood's best-loved characters," with Marlon Brando calling him "the best actor in films." For his acting the part in fifteen Andy Hardy films, he received an honorary Oscar in 1938 for "bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth" and for "setting a high standard of ability and achievement." By 1938 a Teaching Plan, one that I have been associated with now for more than 60 years, was in its infancy, was one year old.
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Rooney became an MGM standard, a success vehicle for MGM. He was noted for his ability to act, sing, dance, clown, and play various musical instruments, most of which he did with apparent ease and raw talent. "There was nothing he couldn't do," said actress Margaret O'Brien. MGM boss Louis B. Mayer treated him like a son and saw in Rooney "the embodiment of the amiable American boy who stands for family, humbug, and sentiment," writes critic and author, David Thomson. By the time Rooney was 20 in 1940, his consistent portrayals of characters with youth and energy suggested that his future success was unlimited. Thomson also explains that Rooney's characters were able to cover a wide range of emotional types, and gives three examples where "Rooney is not just an actor of genius, but an artist able to maintain a stylized commentary on the demon impulse of the small, belligerent man:"
Rooney's Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), which came out as the Baha's of North America were putting together their first systematic teaching plan, is truly inhuman, one of cinema's most arresting pieces of magic. . . . His toughie in Boys Town (1938) struts and bullies like something out of a nightmare and then comes clean in a grotesque but utterly frank outburst of sentimentality in which he aspires to the boy community. . . . His role as Baby Face Nelson (1957), the manic, destructive response of the runt against a pig society.
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