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The life and times of Mickey Rooney / William Birnes and Richard Lertzman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2015Description: xx, 601 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781501100963 (hardback)
  • 1501100963 (hardback)
  • 1501100971
  • 9781501100970
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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).
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on exclusive interviews, and with those who knew him best, including his heretofore unknown mistress of sixty years.

"I lived like a rock star," said Mickey Rooney. "I had all I ever wanted, from Lana Turner and Joan Crawford to every starlet in Hollywood, and then some. They were mine to have. Ava [Gardner] was the best. I screwed up my life. I pissed away millions. I was #1, the biggest star in the world."

Mickey Rooney began his career almost a century ago as a one-year-old performer in burlesque and stamped his mark in vaudeville, silent films, talking films, Broadway, and television. He acted in his final motion picture just weeks before he died at age ninety-three. He was an iconic presence in movies, the poster boy for American youth in the idyllic small-town 1930s. Yet, by World War II, Mickey Rooney had become frozen in time. A perpetual teenager in an aging body, he was an anachronism by the time he hit his forties. His child-star status haunted him as the gilded safety net of Hollywood fell away, and he was forced to find support anywhere he could, including affairs with beautiful women, multiple marriages, alcohol, and drugs.

In The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney , authors Richard A. Lertzman and William J. Birnes present Mickey's nearly century-long career within the context of America's changing entertainment and social landscape. They chronicle his life story using little-known interviews with the star himself, his children, his former coauthor Roger Kahn, collaborator Arthur Marx, and costar Margaret O'Brien. This Old Hollywood biography presents Mickey Rooney from every angle, revealing the man Laurence Olivier once dubbed "the best there has ever been."

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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).

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