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emma_in_dream) wrote2014-04-07 07:17 pm
emma_in_dream) wrote2014-04-07 07:17 pm
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It is with great sorrow that I read that Mickey Rooney has passed on. While every other girl in my school was obsessing over teen bands, I loved a series on SBS called ‘Mickey, Judy and Friends’ which showed movies starring child stars of the 30s and 40s. I even wrote to the director and got some artwork of the them beaming at each other in defiance of the Great Depression and the war.
I love the simplicity of the Andy Hardy movies, I love his bad boy act in *National Velvet* (1944), and, of course, *Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry* (1937) is the slashiest movie ever made.
Mickey Rooney may not have been the greatest actor in the world, but he had a lot of pep. And let us not forget that cinema was his second career (spanning the 1920s to 2011). He started out in vaudeville.
· Starring Mickey Rooney *and* Judy Garland *and* Freddie Bartholomew.
I love the simplicity of the Andy Hardy movies, I love his bad boy act in *National Velvet* (1944), and, of course, *Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry* (1937) is the slashiest movie ever made.
Mickey Rooney may not have been the greatest actor in the world, but he had a lot of pep. And let us not forget that cinema was his second career (spanning the 1920s to 2011). He started out in vaudeville.
· Starring Mickey Rooney *and* Judy Garland *and* Freddie Bartholomew.