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Rooney's mellow reprise of his 1965 autobiography LE., with the last quarter century taking up the last quarter of the book. Rooney's record: eight wives, nine children, 63 inches, 210 movies, one billion bucks, and a lot of ups and downs. He's been spared alcoholism; as a teen-ager some champagne proved to him that he was allergic to alcohol. He was allergic to pills too, but they got him anyway, as they did his best buddy and partner at MGM, Judy Garland. Rooney's earliest days, going onstage with his vaudevillian parents at 18 months, are still phenomenal, including his first movie role in 1926 (he was five but playing a much older midget), then his 50 or so Mickey McGuire shorts (1927-1934), then his boffo stage role in Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed by the film version, in which his fantastic elf with a heehaw bray stole every honor. Signing on with MGM at 14 (he'd already been written off as a has-been) was the biggest break of his life, leading to dramatic roles such as Boys' Town, the marvelous Garland-Rooney musicals, and the million-dollar millstone of the Andy Hardy series. The postwar years put him in the doldrums, as did his disastrous marriage to Ava Gardner. A later marriage produced four children but ended with his wife's adultery and murder by her suicide-lover. Says Rooney: "I'd had a couple of brief affairs, nothing serious, during my years with Barbara. . .Dick Quine used to say women wanted me because of my energy. I doubt that. Women liked me because I made them laugh. What is an orgasm, after all, except laughter in the loins?" On Barbara's death: "Something like a steel band seemed to encircle my chest. And I didn't take a full breath for three years." Later, there were more doldrums, then a surprise Oscar nomination for The Black Stallion, and an oil well in Broadway burlesque, Sugar Babies. Also, he's become a fairly spiritual guy. Bouncy! with long dribbles downhill, then amazingly bigger bounces. (Kirkus Reviews)
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An autobiography of Mickey Rooney, dancer, comedian and dramatic actor. A famous child star, hit the big time with his portrayal of Andy Hardy. By 1939, he had taken over from Shirley Temple as America's No 1 Box Office attraction.
Rooney's mellow reprise of his 1965 autobiography LE., with the last quarter century taking up the last quarter of the book. Rooney's record: eight wives, nine children, 63 inches, 210 movies, one billion bucks, and a lot of ups and downs. He's been spared alcoholism; as a teen-ager some champagne proved to him that he was allergic to alcohol. He was allergic to pills too, but they got him anyway, as they did his best buddy and partner at MGM, Judy Garland. Rooney's earliest days, going onstage with his vaudevillian parents at 18 months, are still phenomenal, including his first movie role in 1926 (he was five but playing a much older midget), then his 50 or so Mickey McGuire shorts (1927-1934), then his boffo stage role in Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed by the film version, in which his fantastic elf with a heehaw bray stole every honor. Signing on with MGM at 14 (he'd already been written off as a has-been) was the biggest break of his life, leading to dramatic roles such as Boys' Town, the marvelous Garland-Rooney musicals, and the million-dollar millstone of the Andy Hardy series. The postwar years put him in the doldrums, as did his disastrous marriage to Ava Gardner. A later marriage produced four children but ended with his wife's adultery and murder by her suicide-lover. Says Rooney: "I'd had a couple of brief affairs, nothing serious, during my years with Barbara. . .Dick Quine used to say women wanted me because of my energy. I doubt that. Women liked me because I made them laugh. What is an orgasm, after all, except laughter in the loins?" On Barbara's death: "Something like a steel band seemed to encircle my chest. And I didn't take a full breath for three years." Later, there were more doldrums, then a surprise Oscar nomination for The Black Stallion, and an oil well in Broadway burlesque, Sugar Babies. Also, he's become a fairly spiritual guy. Bouncy! with long dribbles downhill, then amazingly bigger bounces. (Kirkus Reviews)
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An autobiography of Mickey Rooney, dancer, comedian and dramatic actor. A famous child star, hit the big time with his portrayal of Andy Hardy. By 1939, he had taken over from Shirley Temple as America's No 1 Box Office attraction.
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