RIP Mickey Rooney

[Chip R]

https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/mickey-rooney-dead-legendary-tv-film-star-dies-032000226-us-weekly.html;_ylt=AwrBTzsoGkJT6RMAAwVXNyoA;_ylu=X3o DMTB0Y3RxaGtoBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTM4O V8x

[757690]

The memorial service will be held in the barn. We can get our classmates to sing in the chorus, my dad can lead the service, my sister can decorate the barn, my mom can make the refreshments, we'll invite the whole town and all towns around us... I think we can do this!

[RBA]

In the 70s, Once you overloaded on cartoons on Saturday mornings, a Mickey Rooney movie would come on. RIP.

[Ravenlord]

he's been in a few of my favorite comedies ever. RIP.

[GAC]

I loved the Andy Hardy movies

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZFMDtYf5iwk/UFjOT_YrmbI/AAAAAAAAAaU/PKS4wWNAq0U/s400/AndyHardyLoveFindsGirls.JPG

As one writer appropriately put it - he was the Justin Bieber of his time.

RIP Mickey

[redsmetz]

The memorial service will be held in the barn. We can get our classmates to sing in the chorus, my dad can lead the service, my sister can decorate the barn, my mom can make the refreshments, we'll invite the whole town and all towns around us... I think we can do this!

Here's the NY Times' obit: http://nyti.ms/1qdIrZn and here's my comments I wrote when I shared this on Facebook:

An extraordinary career - films in ten different decades, he made his first movie before my folks were born. This decade alone, he made eight movies and three more filming or in pre-production. A very talented man. I imagine he and Judy Garland already have a show going in some barn in the great beyond.

[SunDeck]

I loved the Andy Hardy movies

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZFMDtYf5iwk/UFjOT_YrmbI/AAAAAAAAAaU/PKS4wWNAq0U/s400/AndyHardyLoveFindsGirls.JPG

As one writer appropriately put it - he was the Justin Bieber of his time.

RIP Mickey

From what I read about him, Mickey's smiling in that picture because of what he's planning to do with the ladies after the photo shoot. Of course, this absolutely ruined the image I had of him from his movies...

[Raisor]

Finally his reign of terror is over.

8 wives in 90 something years. A good run.

[Sea Ray]

Finally his reign of terror is over.

8 wives in 90 something years. A good run.

And almost all of them were models...not bad for a guy who was 5'3"

[westofyou]

Fascinating character he was, I love the golden age of the motion picture industry, he was such a big part of the movies I saw growing up on TV late in the afternoon or on Sunday

[Roy Tucker]

I really felt a sense of loss at this news. Rooney was such a touch point for so many films going so far back. There aren't many of his generation left and we're losing them rapidly.

Was he at this years Oscars? Seems like I "saw" him recently.

[Rojo]

Brought to mind Tom Hatten's Family Film Festival, which many So Cal people may remember. I just looked it up and Tom Hatten is still with us.

I wasn't a fan of the Andy Hardy movies, thought they were corny when I was eight.

Did like him as Bill.

[westofyou]

Brought to mind Tom Hatten's Family Film Festival, which many So Cal people may remember. I just looked it up and Tom Hatten is still with us.

I wasn't a fan of the Andy Hardy movies, thought they were corny when I was eight.

Did like him as Bill.

Bill was awesome

[cumberlandreds]

The only thing I knew him as was the voice of Santa Claus in Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. I don't know or remember watching a movie he was in. I do know he had a bunch of wives and probably a ton of alimony payments.

[Ohayou]

Yeah, he had quite a life, and would tell you all about it at length.

There aren't many of those stars left.

[Sea Ray]

The only thing I knew him as was the voice of Santa Claus in Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. I don't know or remember watching a movie he was in. I do know he had a bunch of wives and probably a ton of alimony payments.

He was also Santa in the Year Without a Santa Claus with the Miser Brothers and all. He played a jockey in a Twilight Zone. I got the impression from a later interview that he thought Twilight Zone was beneath him but whatever

I saw an interview on TCM with Robert Osborne and Rooney nearly hit him. He seemed very emotionally unstable then

[GAC]

I got an interesting tale...

Back in the mid-60s, when his career was kinda "Blah", he was performing for the Kenley Players (out of Dayton). My grandmother had an ice cream store in a small village (Harmony) located between Springfield and Columbus (right on National Road/ Rte 40). My Mom, and her sisters, would help grandma run the store. One day this beat up station wagon pulls in and a group get out, come to the window and order food. They're sitting on the back tailgate of the station wagon eating when my Mom recognizes one of them as Mickey Rooney. They go up to the car and are talking with them. Mickey and "company" had just finished in Dayton and were heading for Columbus.

[Kingspoint]

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As one writer appropriately put it - he was the Justin Bieber of his time.

RIP Mickey

What an insult to Mickey Rooney. Rooney took over after Shirley Temple as the #1 Box Office attraction in the World. Bieber is famous for spanking his monkey.

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Sunday, beginning at 6:00 a.m., TCM will show 24 hours of Mickey Rooney movies.

[Kingspoint]

Sunday, beginning at 6:00 a.m., TCM will show 24 hours of Mickey Rooney movies.

[Kingspoint]

My favorite Mickey Rooney movies (in chronological order):

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

Captains Courageous (1937)

Boys Town (1938)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)

Young Tom Edison (1939)

National Velvet (1944)

The Big Wheel (1949)

The Black Stallion (1979)

Bill (1981)

[RedTeamGo!]

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Bieber is famous for spanking his monkey.



Def don't mean to defense Justin Bieber :barf: but I would say he is famous for singing terrible pop songs, not for masturbating.

[757690]

I got an interesting tale...

Back in the mid-60s, when his career was kinda "Blah", he was performing for the Kenley Players (out of Dayton). My grandmother had an ice cream store in a small village (Harmony) located between Springfield and Columbus (right on National Road/ Rte 40). My Mom, and her sisters, would help grandma run the store. One day this beat up station wagon pulls in and a group get out, come to the window and order food. They're sitting on the back tailgate of the station wagon eating when my Mom recognizes one of them as Mickey Rooney. They go up to the car and are talking with them. Mickey and "company" had just finished in Dayton and were heading for Columbus.

Great story. Thanks :)
Looks like it was 1975.

Here's a list of all the Kenley Players shows and "stars." I remember seeing Fonzie in "Room Service" in 1976

http://www.kenleyplayershistory.com/dayton.htm

[Kingspoint]

Top-Grossing Actors/Actresses by year **:

1932-33 Marie Dressler
1934 Will Rogers
1935-38 Shirley Temple
1939-41 Mickey Rooney (1939 is considered the best year ever for movies, and Rooney was #1 in box office receipts)
1942 Abbott & Costello (WWII saw numerous stars enlist...everything changed)
1943 Betty Grable
1944-48 Bing Crosby
1949 Bob Hope
1950-51 John Wayne
1952 Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
1953 Gary Cooper
1954 John Wayne
1955 James Stewart
1956 William Holden
1957 Rock Hudson (First Actor to be #1 after never being in the Top-10 any previous year)
1958 Glenn Ford
1959 Rock Hudson (From 1957-64, Rock Hudson was less than #3 only once, and that was #5 in 1958)
1960 Doris Day
1961 Elizabeth Taylor
1962-64 Doris Day
1965 Sean Connery
1966-67 Julie Andrews
1968 Sidney Poitier
1969-70 Paul Newman


** Quigley's Annual "Top Ten MoneyMakers Poll" has been conducted every year since 1932 and is based on a yearly survey of motion picture exhibitors. The survey asks the exhibitors to vote for the ten stars who generated the most box-office revenue for their theatres that year. Though it doesn't reflect actual box-office receipts, the Quigley poll has long been regarded as a reliable indicator of a star's box-office draw. It is published annually in the International Motion Picture Almanac (New York: Quigley Publications).

When looking over the lists below, keep in mind that (especially in the earlier years) a star's ranking was frequently influenced by major blockbuster movies of their career, but not always in the year of the film's official release. This is because under the old method of distributing films, it often took a movie many months after its premiere to reach theatres throughout the United States. In the days of single-screen theatres (as opposed to today's multiplexes), films were not released simultaneously in hundreds of theatres across the country the way they are now. Instead, movies opened in a few large theatres of major metropolitan cities before gradually working their way into the smaller theatres and cities as the larger theatres chose to showcase new films. The more successful a film was, the longer it played in the big theatres, and the longer it took for people in the smaller cities to get to see it. Thus, individual films continued to generate box-office revenues for several years, spreading out the impact of their success on the annual ranking of their stars.

[Kingspoint]

Judy Garland places her handprints at Grauman's:



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[Kingspoint]

Def don't mean to defense Justin Bieber :barf: but I would say he is famous for singing terrible pop songs, not for masturbating.

I'm sure you didn't...just the writer suggesting any connection. Bieber abused his monkey by abandoning it in Germany. About the only way he can get in the news is to do something stupid.

[Rojo]

I'm sure a lot of you have seen: his estate was $18K! He was worth less than me.

What's the lesson here kids? Don't get married.

[Kingspoint]

I'm sure a lot of you have seen: his estate was $18K! He was worth less than me.

What's the lesson here kids? Don't get married.
Or, don't outlive your retirement.

(Just watched "Revolutionary Road".)

[Chip R]

On a Reds related note, I remember an episode of Conan back in 1994 when Pete Rose and Mickey Rooney were guests and Rooney was acting very bizarre. Pete looked like he thought Rooney was high or drunk.

[cumberlandreds]

He was also Santa in the Year Without a Santa Claus with the Miser Brothers and all. He played a jockey in a Twilight Zone. I got the impression from a later interview that he thought Twilight Zone was beneath him but whatever

I saw an interview on TCM with Robert Osborne and Rooney nearly hit him. He seemed very emotionally unstable then

Right after I posted I saw him in an episode of Night Gallery on METV. He must have done some acting in these types of shows quite a bit late in his career. Guess he able to make a couple of alimony payments that way.

[Raisor]

One role I wish he hadn't taken was for Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Great movie, but sheesh.

[redsmetz]

Great story. Thanks :)
Looks like it was 1975.

Here's a list of all the Kenley Players shows and "stars." I remember seeing Fonzie in "Room Service" in 1976

http://www.kenleyplayershistory.com/dayton.htm

The list says he also did a show there in 1967. What a line-up of actors through all those years.

[RichRed]

I'm sure a lot of you have seen: his estate was $18K! He was worth less than me.

What's the lesson here kids? Don't get married.

Or if you're going to do it, keep your number of wives to seven or fewer.