Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First-Class Business. This windfall comes smack atop the biggest year in U.S. cinema history. The stampede to spend new-found cash and forget the war with Mickey Rooney or Hedy Lamarr has shoved movie attendance to almost 100,000,000 weekly, 15% above last year. Around war plants the flickers play to standees at every show, theater walls fairly bulge with ogling patrons. Result: total box-office take of 16,500 U.S. cinemansions this year will hit a record $1.3 billion-20% above the peak year...
...Kelly do a notable job. Kelly, who made a Broadway hit winter before last in Pal Joey, has flashes of acting intuition which should rate him a special berth, or perhaps a drawing room, in Hollywood. Bony-faced Judy Garland is already well-graduated from a sort of female Mickey Rooney into one of the more reliable song pluggers in the business. She also begins to show symptoms of dramatic sensitiveness, discipline and talent...
Domestic Relations Bureau: Ava Gardner, 19-year-old actress wife of Mickey Rooney since January, dropped her divorce suit, announced things were going to be patched up. From Rooney, still home with mother, came silence...
...first long hours of travel were monotonous, then: "As we near our goal we ascend to our designated altitude," reported A.P.'s Edward Kennedy. "We all look a little like Mickey Mouse in the black snouts which are oxygen masks. It is cold up here and I see that a fly which came with us has expired for lack of air. It will not be long...
...other camp. Huckleberry Mickey Fenn, the Cambridge Comet, proclaims his charges in superb shape for the tussle. Studded with power is the CRIMSON eleven, from J. Robert Mosking of Leverett House (I think) on one end to Finely Corliss Lament Van Vent far out on the other...