Word: cooganing
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...Mickey Rooney the typical American Boy. Mom welcomes any pretext to show admirers Mickey's baby clothes, his first shoes and rubbers, which she has kept carefully all these years. She also keeps carefully the half of all Mickey's earnings which (by California's Jackie Coogan law) goes to her. Three years ago, Mom remarried-dark-haired, good-looking Fred Pankey, an accountant at MGM, who also lives at the Rooney home-El Ranchito...
...achieved stardom, his passage into maturity may not, as it has to others, mean his passage into professional oblivion. It is not conceivable that Jackie Cooper or Freddie Bartholomew might bloom into a Spencer Tracy. It is conceivable that Mickey might. If he does avoid the fate of Jackie Coogan, et al., he will have his Mom and the old theatrical trunk in which he was raised to thank, as well as his rough-&-tumble personality and physique. In fact, he does not like so much attention to be paid to his personality...
...film Starlet Lana Turner, 20 (he for the third time, she for the first); at 4 a.m., in Las Vegas, Nev. Surprised were Los Angeles Attorney Gregson Bautzer, who was engaged to Starlet Turner and Musicomedienne Betty Grable. who was gossiped to be waiting for her divorce from Jackie Coogan to marry Artie Shaw. Said she: "It must have come on him very suddenly...
Feeling like a kid at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, Actor Jackie Coogan gave an affable bookie calling himself "Colonel Hunt" $500 to bet on the nose of a long shot, King Cotton. King Cotton won, paid off at $12.40 for $2 on the mutuel machines. Bookmakers do not operate at the New Orleans Fair Grounds...
Divorced. Betty Grable, 22, muffin-pretty, blonde cinemactress; from Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, 24, once famed child cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty...