Mickey Rooney Articles
GONE WITH THE WIND vs. MELODY RANCH: The Unreliability of Box Office Polls
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind Sandra Bullock: Top Box Office Star Gone with the Wind opened in late December 1939. Boom Town became one of the biggest hits of 1940.Both movies starred Clark Gable, who kept himself quite busy by also starring in Comrade X and Strange Cargo. The biggest box-office star of 1940, according to Quigley’s exhibitors’ poll? Mickey Rooney. [...]
Charles Chaplin’s THE CIRCUS, ALADDIN, EASY RIDER Screenings
Among the upcoming screenings in the November film series of the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va., are vehicles for just about everyone, from Charles Chaplin to Dennis Hopper; from Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland to Robin Williams‘ voice. I’ve never seen Disney’s Aladdin, though I know it was a big hit when it came out. Robin Williams was [...]
Mickey Rooney Keeps Busy
"Retire? Why? Why is it everyone wants me to retire? Who cares about age? I don’t need to retire." That’s Mickey Rooney, 87, voted by film exhibitors the top box-office star in the United States for three years in a row, 1939–1941. Why such an enormous success? Well, pictures like Babes in Arms (opposite Judy Garland, and for which he received a best actor Oscar [...]