Mickey Rooney passed away today at the age of 93. His health had been failing for quite awhile.Mickey Rooney's parents were a comedian and a chorus girl who played on vaudeville, and he made his first appearance on the stage with them aged only seventeen months. He was a scrappy kid in the silent-era Mickey McGuire shorts (1927-1933), then played "lead character as a boy" roles - such as in The World Changes (1933) and Manhattan Melodrama (1934) - and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935). A star turn as a good-natured, trouble-prone teen in A Family Affair (1937) led to a long series of folksy Andy Hardy pictures that represented MGM head Louis B. Mayer's ideal of the United States. This was followed by energetic musical teamings with fellow MGM property Judy Garland in Babes in Arms (1939) and Babes on Broadway (1941). He won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor...
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