Lost Mickey Rooney Film Is Found and Set for Preservation 'Mickey's Circus,' a 1927 comedy featuring the actor in his first starring role, is among dozens of early American silent films to be ...

Rooney’s first film appearance came in 1926. The following year he made the first of 78 black-and-white short comedies in the role of Mickey McGuire, based on Fontaine Fox’s Toonerville ...

Then, in 1932, Rooney broke out of his Mickey McGuire box and became Midge in the film Fast Companions. But it was his work as Andy Hardy in the 1937 film A Family Affair that shot him into stardom.

From 1937 to 1946, Mickey Rooney played clean-cut, wide-eyed Midwestern teenager Andy Hardy 15 times in a series of films that proved instrumental (along with his Judy Garland musicals) in making ...

Mickey Rooney was the original Hardy boy. His 200-plus film credits notwithstanding, ... 1920, Rooney made his first stage appearance at 17 months as part of his comic father and dancer mother's ...

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney sparked an unlikely friendship after they starred in 10 films together. When Garland passed ...