Posted on 04/06/2014 7:48:53 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
Mickey Rooney, who spent nearly his entire life in the show business, died today. He was 93.
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Thanks for the memories, Young Tom Edison. RIP
I’m sure TCM will be showing his movies in tribute. I’ll be watching. Rest in peace sir.
Is that the episode when he had three wishes and was tired of being a nobody and wanted to be big,big,BIG!?
True Way back as a kid actor in silents he was “Mickey McGuire” kind of a precursor to Our Gang
Yes .
One wish . Hears a voice speaking to him from his own mind .
He was a one man show in that episode.
RIP Mickey. Great talent, and I think you are finally reuniting with your one true love.
RIP
Thanks for the memories
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/06/08/doris-day-and-mickey-rooney-remember-ronald-reagan/
"And I came down and I saw this wonderful looking gentleman, very nice, and he said to me, who are you? I said, I'm Mickey Rooney. Who are you? He says, I'm Ronald Reagan.
I said, I'm very happy to know you, Mr. Reagan. And at that time, there was a dog that came out of the - out onto the street in front of the apartment house, and he got hit, he wasn't killed, thank God, and I grabbed him and I brought him back in. And I said, we've got to get him to a veterinarian right away. And he said, Mickey, you're a real humanitarian. And that's the way we started. Of course, he invited me over to Warner Brothers and we had lunch and I met a lot of wonderful people there."
RIP
So who’s left out of the comedians/actors who appeared in It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World?
He did some great stuff - what a talent....but....of all of the autobiographies I’ve ever read, his was the one I wish I hadn’t. He was such a perv.
I would say he didn’t live a dull life, a rather prolific one I would think!
“Rooney was married eight times. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was often the subject of comedians’ jokes for his alleged inability to stay married. At the time of his death, he was married to Jan Chamberlin, although they were then separated. He had a total of nine children, as well as 19 grandchildren[27] and several great-grandchildren.”
To answer my own question (it looks like all of the principle actors are gone, with Sid Caesar also recently taking a bow):
Stan Freberg
Carl Reiner
Jerry Lewis
are among those who remiain
Now THAT was a movie!!!
With a cast that can never be duplicated by brilliance and star power and sheer Hollywood legacy!
Even after his supernatural experience with the busboy and his professing of the Christian faith he was still rather blunt about his previous perspective. And he did write that Ava Gardner had the most beautiful breasts he had ever seen. Douglas MacArthur’s hero father Arthur MacArther always told his famous story of a Louisiana bribe attempt involving a woman offered to him as “the second most beautiful woman I have ever seen” due to his wife’s presence...”my father was no fool”.
Wow.
One of the few great, great, greats.
R.I.P. Mickey, and thanks for countless hours of top-flight entertainment - if ever an actor earned a berth in heaven, you did.
I remember seeing Mickey on Art Linkletter’s old House Party show. He got a question about why he always married taller women. He laughed and said he always gets questions about his wives but he loved them all.
There are not too many women in show biz that are shorter than Mickey.
My Uncle OT was among the many GIs that saw Mickey in Europe during the WWII. Everybody just loved that “little sawed-off soldier”.
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