TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birnes,William J.
AU  - Lertzman,Richard A.
TI  - The life and times of Mickey Rooney
SN  - 9781501100963 (hardback)
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Gallery Books
KW  - Rooney, Mickey.
KW  - Actors
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-570) and index; Foreword / by Roger Kahn -- Introduction / by Jeanine Basinger -- Prologue: The last movie -- Born in a trunk -- Mickey McGuire -- Ma Lawlor and Universal Studios -- Selznick rescues Mickey : the start at MGM -- A midsummer night's dream -- The gates of hell -- Mickey and the Lion -- The make-believe world of Andy Hardy's America -- Mickey and Judy and the MGM backyard musicals -- Mickey goes wild -- Ava -- The first divorce -- Mickey and the pit bull -- Greetings -- Rooney Inc. -- The Lion strikes back -- The Mick, the Duke, and the deuce in the coconut -- Bigamy and Barbara Ann -- The Mickey jinx and the murder in Brentwood -- Career swings -- The seventies: aftermath of tragedy -- Escape from Los Angeles -- Sugar babies -- Mickey's back : the Oscars, and the Emmys, and Bill -- Going ungently into that good night -- Time may lie heavy between -- The last years -- His revels are now ended -- It's a wrap -- Afterword / by Paul Petersen -- Appendix: Mickey Rooney filmography and credits (in chronological order)
N2  - "A definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on exclusive interviews with those who knew him best"--
ER  -