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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Mickey Rooney has grown into a performer of considerable skill. In times past, he has been one of Hollywood's biggest box-office attractions. But he obviously cannot go through life playing Andy Hardy. (Says Mickey: "Let's face it. ... I'm practically an old roué.") Since his release from the Army two years ago, Mickey's future as a movie star has been problematical...
...give the story "stark realism," CBS called in two ex-newspapermen as writers: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, once of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (more recently of the Satevepost and M-G-M), and Richard Carroll, once of the New York Daily News. Their job is to make Shorty's episodes self-sufficient, but with enough continuity to hold listener interest over a week-long intermission...
...show closed with Shorty soliloquizing: "I guess that's what they call experience. Gettin' your teeth kicked in like that by a guy you've always looked up to. Now I'm really learning what life is like. . . . Well, nuts to 'em all. I can play it rough if that's the way they want it. And it looks from here like it's gonna be rough...
Around the Hollywood studios, everyone used to call quiet André Previn "the kid." But not any more: all of a sudden he had grown up. Last week, just before his 19th birthday, M-G-M assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 musical...
...Berlin, he learned about the old masters. In Los Angeles he heard a jazz record by famed Pianist Art Tatum and "went on a mad Tatum kick for four years." José Iturbi heard Andre playing boogie, got him to arrange the boogie pieces for his Holiday in Mexico. M-G-M signed Andre just after he graduated from high school, put him on studio chores- everything from playing the piano for rehearsals to "watching sink" (synchronizing the film with the soundtrack...