Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this picture starts a new trend, I shall expect to see Lincoln acted by Robert Taylor (without makeup), Bell by Mickey Rooney, Washington by Shirley Temple, and Charlie McCarthy by Edgar Bergen's other puppet with the unpleasant face...
...Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto the Pup the success of Walt Disney's first full-length feature picture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was a blow. It meant that henceforth they would play second fiddle in the animated cartoon kingdom. For Cartoonist Disney, Snow White grossed $4,677,863 in 1938-39, jumped his net to a record $1,250,130 for 1939, launched him on a new kind of business with new problems: big-time feature production...
...Mickey, where are the shows of yesteryear? Once you seemed to combine the talent of a Huey Long and a Father Coughlin; but last night at Sanders Theatre you were a dud. You had heard that the Student Union was going to present a play entitled "Waiting for Lefty". Someone had told you--for it's not likely that you read any contemporary drama but your own--that it was a leftist play. You sallied forth to go through your usual paces. This time, though, you looked off form. No one laughed. No one pledged you his vote for next...
...manlier kid than any other who ever 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...
Some time ago a studio visitor asked him if he was as tough offstage as on. "Sir," said Mickey, "I am an actor...