Legendary Actor Mickey Rooney 1920-2014

[Dianne3]

Mickey's 8 surviving children (one son is deceased) are better of finacially than Mickey was and 18,000 is not a lot to split between them.

Did you know that one is his wives, his 5th, was murdered in a murder/suicide by her boyfriend? Apparently the guy was afraid she was going to reunite with Mickey. Then out of grief, Mickey married her best friend, his 6th, a marriage that only lasted 100 days.

[AB]

Such a fine actor, may he rest in peace.

[Zoneboy]

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Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to Mickey Rooney, who passed away April 6 at age 93, with a 24-hour marathon of his movies.

The marathon will begin Sunday, April 13, at 6 a.m. Eastern time with the 1933 film "Broadway to Hollywood."

Other films in the marathon will include "A Family Affair" and "You're Only Young Once," the first two movies in the Andy Hardy series; "Babes on Broadway," one of Rooney's many pairings with Judy Garland"; and "The Human Comedy," for which Rooney earned an Oscar nomination for best actor.


The same day, the TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles will feature a newly added screening of the 1944 Rooney film "National Velvet," to be followed by a conversation by Rooney's close friend and fellow screen star Margaret O'Brien.

TCM host Robert Osborne said in a statement, "Mickey Rooney was easily one of the most talented people in American show business. Actor, singer, dancer, musician — he did it all. And what's truly remarkable is that he did it so well for so long."

[Vahan]

April 13. That is one day before the 20th anniversary of TCM.

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by Janice

Sorry I was wrong. It was $18,000, which is a paltry amount considering the long career he had.

He once stated that he lost $2.00 at his first horse race and he'd been trying to win it back ever since!

[Zoneboy]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

He once stated that he lost $2.00 at his first horse race and he'd been trying to win it back ever since!

Horse-doping doesn't help matters any.


Mickey Rooney as Michael Grady in The Twilight Zone episode "The Last Night of a Jockey".

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by Zoneboy

Horse-doping doesn't help matters any.


Mickey Rooney as Michael Grady in The Twilight Zone episode "The Last Night of a Jockey".

No it doesn't!

[Penny Lane]

He made a Christmas movie "It Came Upon Midnight Clear" in 1984. Mickey Rooney plays Mike Halligan, a retired cop from Manhattan living in California with his family who decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But he dies from a sudden heart attack in which Halligan makes a deal with the Archangel of Heaven to return to Earth for a week until Christmas and show his grandson the seasonal glories of New York City.

I have the dvd

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

He made a Christmas movie "It Came Upon Midnight Clear" in 1984. Mickey Rooney plays Mike Halligan, a retired cop from Manhattan living in California with his family who decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But he dies from a sudden heart attack in which Halligan makes a deal with the Archangel of Heaven to return to Earth for a week until Christmas and show his grandson the seasonal glories of New York City.

I have the dvd

He was also in the 1991 Christmas movie Silent Night Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker.