Mickey Rooney – photos and quotes

Mickey Rooney

“If one critic says I over-act, and 15,000 fans say it’s okay, I’m gonna study Andy Hardy again so I can keep on muggin’.”Mickey Rooney

Source: Robbin Coons (1938)

"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 (Bizarre Los Angeles)

“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

 

On the set with Judy Garland and George Seitz in 1940.

 

 

Ciros restaurant - Ava Gardner & Mickey Rooney with young Paramount Studios starlet Ann Harris. Photo by JOSEPH JASGUR. Bizarre Los Angeles.“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 Mickey Rooney Esther Williams Lewis Stone

Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942). With Esther Williams and Lewis Stone.

 

Mickey Rooney and Clark Gable. (Bizarre Los Angeles)

With Clark Gable.

 

 

Mickey Rooney

“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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