Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King of the Roaring Twenties (Allied Artists) is a B that doesn't bumble-thanks to a tight script, sharp direction, and neat performances by the biggest cast of big-name players ever cornered for a quickie. Among those present: Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney. Keenan Wynn, Joseph Schildkraut. Dan O'Herlihy, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors, Mickey Shaughnessy. William Demarest and David (Richard Diamond) Janssen...
...with the Devil. At ten. Arnie is running his own crime syndicate on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At 20, he is running a bucket shop. Soon he sets up a gambling house, and moves in on the horse parlors. But after fingering a little punk (Rooney) who has served him loyally, the rat (as he did in real life) catches a fatal dose of lead poisoning in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel...
Neat as it is, the show would be eminently missable except for one thing: Rooney. Twenty years of anticlimax have strung hard lines across the famous baby face. With his porky jowls and rathskeller neck and jutting nose. Rooney at 38 resembles an enraged pygmy rhino, a pint-pot Wallace Beery. His talent resembles Beery's, too, in its sock-simple vulgarity, its feisty fecundity. He is one of the great hams of the age, and life seems to have smoked him ripe...
...adventure series with Powell as host and occasional star. Tonight he is the inevitable gumshoe, trying to figure out who killed a young model, suspecting all ten of his guest stars: Nick Adams, Ralph Bellamy, Edgar Bergen, Lloyd Bridges, Jack Carson, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Ronald Reagan, Mickey Rooney and Kay Thompson...
...Lawford will play a British commando leader,*Richard Todd a British major, and William Holden will be U.S. Lieut. Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort. Henry Fonda will be General James Gavin, now U.S. Ambassador to France (as a private little joke among peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play a young Resistance heroine. She already has a proper military attitude: "All I can think of is to make...