From Andy Hardy to Night at the Museum, we look back at the career of the prolific performer who died yesterday
Video: Mickey Rooney: a life in film
Born Joseph Yule in 1920, Rooney apparently first trod the boards as a toddler, before becoming part of this parents' stage act before he was two years old.
Rooney was one of the last living connections to the silent movie era, which abruptly vanished at the end of the 1920s when synchronised movie soundtracks became widely available. Rooney got the lead role of Mickey McGuire in a low budget comedy serial based on Fox Fontaine's Toonerville Folks comic strips. Very much a Little Rascal's kind of thing, here's Rooney at seven years old in Mickey's Pals, from 1927.
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Video: Mickey Rooney: a life in film
Born Joseph Yule in 1920, Rooney apparently first trod the boards as a toddler, before becoming part of this parents' stage act before he was two years old.
Rooney was one of the last living connections to the silent movie era, which abruptly vanished at the end of the 1920s when synchronised movie soundtracks became widely available. Rooney got the lead role of Mickey McGuire in a low budget comedy serial based on Fox Fontaine's Toonerville Folks comic strips. Very much a Little Rascal's kind of thing, here's Rooney at seven years old in Mickey's Pals, from 1927.
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- 4/7/2014
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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