Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's concrete Uline Arena some 4,000 screaming rug-cutters watched Eleanor Roosevelt slice a 6-ft. birthday cake, distribute chunks to Rosalind Russell, Gene Autry, more than a dozen other cinema stars. Newlywed Actor Mickey Rooney crammed down five slices, mugging for cameramen, before Mrs. Roosevelt gave up. At one of Washington's smaller private parties in the Willard Hotel ballroom, Production Boss Donald Nelson tried to take the private elevator, was told by the operator: "Sorry, sir, but this is only for movie stars and big shots...
Babes on Broadway (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Even in Hollywood, the custom among the males is to grow up first, and then get married. Against-the-grain Mickey Rooney, 21, got married last week to 19-year-old Hollywood Newcomer Ava Gardner. That adulthood is something he has yet to attain as an actor, Babes on Broadway makes uncomfortably plain. Miss Gardner, fresh from easygoing North Carolina, may have a maturing, decelerating effect on her breathless mate; in that case the future may be worth hanging around...
...Mickey Rooney, who would rather be caught dead than underplaying, has his hands full when he encounters bright-eyed Judy Garland. He is one of a trio of hopeful hoofers billed as The Three Balls of Fire. She is a would-be singer. Their careers are joined when he offers to produce a show for the benefit of some settlement children who need a month in the country; they are jolted when his professedly philanthropic activities (the show is for his benefit, too) cease to remind her of Lincoln freeing the slaves...
Married. Cinemactor Joe Yule Jr. (Mickey Rooney), 21; and North Carolinian Ava Gardner, 19, Hollywood newcomer; in Ballard, Calif...
...real criticism is that everything in the picture is an excuse for something else that doesn't quite happen. The director spends half an hour of action and dialogue working up to a point where he can get Judy Garland seated at a piano and Mickey Rooney saying. "Oh, even if you can't, let me hear you just for the fun of it," and then she is forced to warble a flock of notes that the Hollywood songwriters bunched together between floor shows at the Brown Derby. Virginia Wilder doesn't help. Well, there is no use in going...