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Word: mickey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, Mickey Rooney was no brat to some 24,000 movie exhibitors who (in the annual Fame-Motion Picture Herald poll) voted him the man whose pictures kept their houses best filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Mickey Rooney was no brat either to thousands of movie-goers who had already mightily plumped for him in the solid form of dimes and quarters at those theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Mickey Rooney seem a brat to his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for whom in 1939, he grossed a box-office total of $30,000,000. They saw Mickey Rooney in bread & butter terms, and as such he was the biggest actor of the year in pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Mickey Rooney began as small as an actor can be. And to get where he has gotten took Actor Rooney a lot of time, a lot of talent, a lot of brass, a lot of luck, and a lot of names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Sonny. Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. some 19 years ago on the present site of the Brooklyn Telephone Company building. His mother, née Nell Carter, was a small-time Kansas City vaudevillian when she met up with dancing Joe Yule shortly before World War I, married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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