Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoosier Schoolboy (Monogram). Anne Nagel, as the new school teacher, humoring Mickey Rooney...
...locker, pointed the bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney), held the wheel against the ruffian mutineers. At St. Helena, Mate Thompson, with the gallows in his mind, planned to destroy evidence by linking the slaves' fetters to the anchor chain and dropping anchor. In a free-for-all, Skipper Lovett freed most of the blackbirds, shot Thompson...
...brutalities. Sometimes its violence is shrewdly planned and powerful; sometimes, particularly when Director Tay Garnett uses for comedy the same form of physical surprise which a moment earlier he was using for horror, it is inept. But the action is generally lusty and well-integrated. Best minor role: Mickey Rooney as the resolute, bewildered cabin boy whose loyalty veers hazardously between the brutal mate and the romantic skipper...
...Boom de-ay"--"The Bowery"--"The Sidewalks of new York" "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"--Daisy bell" ("A Bicycle Built for Two")--"Comrades"--"Little Annie Rooney"--"She May Have Seen Better Days"--"The Band Played On"--"After the Ball"--"A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
Lionel Barrymore in "A Family Affair" is the second feature, the first, "A Star Is Born" having been reviewed yesterday. It tells the story of an honest old judge in a small town--his troubles and his triumph--the picture rolls along pleasantly enough. Mickey Rooney handles most of the comedy and turns in an excellent performance, although his girl friend is pretty terrible to lok at. At times this picture borders on the hilarious, but towards the end it gets pretty well tied up in the predicaments Mr. Barrymore must face in order to ensure the welfare...