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 ...

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, the pint-sized actor who was one of MGM’s giant box office attractions in the late ’30s and early ’40s, died on Sunday at his home in North Hollywood. He was 93.

Actor Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood’s brightest stars in the 1930s and 1940s, died Sunday, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said. ... He made his first film, ...

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.

Rooney had been under contract to MGM since 1934, when he was thirteen, with big parts in prestige films like Captains Courageous, Boys Town, and the soon-to-be-released Young Tom Edison.

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

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 ...

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland both dealt with addiction after MGM loaded them up with pills in their youth. ... Rooney appeared in his first film role at 6 in the short film Not to be Trusted.