RIP Mickey Rooney

[robkelk]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/mickey-roon ... -1.2600540

Quite the career - he was acting in movies before the "studio system" started, and was still acting in movies after the system ended.
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Rob Kelk
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[ordnance11]

An 80 year career..quite remarkable.
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And the devil will burn!
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[Bob Schroeck]

Tell me about it. I have a copy of the original first edition of Louis Untermeyer's A Treasury of Laughter, published some time in the early 1940s (and still available on Amazon 70 years later); one of the pieces in it is an essay written a decade or so earlier than that, and which starts with words to the effect of "I have just come back from seeing the film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a talented young fellow named Mickey Rooney in the role of Puck". That role was in 1935, when he was 15 -- and counting voice work and shorts (and excluding "as himself" roles), he'd already done more than a hundred films before that!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Pyeknu]

Sad loss . . .