Jan Rooney, Mickey Rooney and Lauren Hutton at the opening of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' exhibition "The More the Merrier: Posters from the Best Picture Nominees, 1936-1943" on Friday, January 22, 2010. The exhibition features posters from 80 movies and is currently being held at the Academy's Wilshire Grand Lobby in Beverly Hills. Among the represented films are Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth, Howard Hawks' Sergeant York, William Wyler's The Little Foxes, and Sam Wood's The Pride of the Yankees.
Mickey Rooney, who'll turn 90 next September, was featured in three Best Picture Oscar nominees from that period: Victor Fleming's Captains Courageous, starring Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew; Norman Taurog's Boys Town (1938), opposite Tracy; and Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943). Rooney was nominated for two best actor Oscars as well: for Babes in Arms (1939) and The Human Comedy.
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