Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haven't seen "Boom Town" back home, it's worth a trip downtown to find out what MGM can do with a super-budget, four stars, and a plot about oil. The oil proves to be the most savory ingredient in the mixture. It leads Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, two wildcatters, on an exciting chase from Oklahoma and the tropics, to California, from poverty to wealth, back to poverty more times than you can count. The details of a raw, booming oil town, Burkburnett, are interesting and well-handled: the oil fever, the gushers, the fires, and above...
Frequent visitor to Mickey and the Pankeys is Mom's ex-husband, Mickey's father, Joe Yule, with whom Mickey sometimes goes to the fights. Mickey had little trouble persuading MGM to hire his father for pictures after Joe Yule had been hoofing at a downtown Los Angeles burlesque house, billed as "See Mickey Rooney's Father." By hiring his father, the studio also hoped to end Mickey's backstage visits to the burlesque house...
...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...
...Yule is remarried too. and the somewhat jumbled Yules and Pankeys have great times together. Accountant Pankey is reported to make out Joe Yule's pay check over at MGM. Mickey's step father does Joe Yule's boy a good turn too sometimes, by driving the 40-mile round trip to Pasadena, picking up Mickey's dates for him when Stepson Rooney is too busy...
Last week Mickey got new fame and a new name when MGM released his most important picture to date - Young Tom Edison...