“How’d I get in pictures? Well, I won a contest for a tough kid. They picked me out as the toughest, but I’m really not so tough.” — Mickey Rooney
Source: 1935
“Why couldn’t he be tall, dark and handsome like Clark Gable?” — Ava Gardner on her first husband Mickey Rooney.
Photo: Josesh Jasgur (1942). Rooney, Gardner are at Ciro’s Restaurant along with Ann Harris.
Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942). With Esther Williams and Lewis Stone.
“Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter – it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story.” — Mickey Rooney
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