http://m.tmz.com/#Article/2014/04/06/mickey-rooney-dead

Inevitable, but he sure did bring much to the entertainment industry.

RIP!

Think I'm gonna watch Boys Town! Tearjerker if I've ever seen one!

Mickey was quite a character, not to all tastes, but when he was at his peak he had true star quality. You couldn't take your eyes off him. He represented the typical American boy to many in the public in those years. An idealized, aw-shucks one, but one that the country needed at the time.

I enjoyed his movies with Judy Garland. They worked well together and they were kindred spirits - they were never allowed to be children, and as a result I'm not sure either of them ever got to grow up.

The whole "hey kids, let's put on a show!" will forever make me smile, back before musicals started taking themselves a little too seriously.

It's too bad his final years were said to be unhappy. I believe he accused his caregiver of abuse. Not sure of the exact details.

RIP

Oh my Lord, we were JUST talking about him yesterday in rehearsal. "The biggest star in the worrrllld..." May he rest in peace.

One of those people you think of as being around forever, as impossible as that is, it's just something you believe. May he rest in peace.

It's too bad his final years were said to be unhappy. I believe he accused his caregiver of abuse. Not sure of the exact details.

RIP

His final years were unhappy, but Mickey's treatment of some of his children long before he became ill was equally heinous!

Jeanine Basinger's wonderful book The Star Machine has a lot in it about the progression and evolution of not only Mickey Rooney as a juvenile star but also the Andy Hardy films, IIRC - that's sort of a lost art in films today, following a family through the years, film after film. In a way it's a side-set to soap opera, although the Andy Hardy films were of course very traditional and cossetted in their worldview. I still see that family saga model from time to time in some very popular foreign film series in Asia, but over here that basic outline in mostly relegated to Adam Sandler ATM-hit comedies today. It's too bad.

I know Rooney these days mostly from his work when he was very young. It's impossible not to remember him best, though, with Judy Garland

He did an episode of The Golden Girls playing Sofia's boyfriend.

He did an episode of The Golden Girls playing Sofia's boyfriend.

Yes, and had all of that money. That was a great eppy

Jeanine Basinger's wonderful book The Star Machine has a lot in it about the progression and evolution of not only Mickey Rooney as a juvenile star but also the Andy Hardy films, IIRC - that's sort of a lost art in films today, following a family through the years, film after film. In a way it's a side-set to soap opera, although the Andy Hardy films were of course very traditional and cossetted in their worldview. I still see that family saga model from time to time in some very popular foreign film series in Asia, but over here that basic outline in mostly relegated to Adam Sandler ATM-hit comedies today. It's too bad.

I know Rooney these days mostly from his work when he was very young. It's impossible not to remember him best, though, with Judy Garland

It was fairly rare for American films even then. I guess MGM was its own bubble.

No one today would try that type of project, sadly.

RIP

There aren't that many of the old Hollywood stars left now.

TCM remembers Mickey Rooney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCC7ax92Yoo

On Sunday they are showing his movies starting at 6am:

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/movie-news.html?id=971487&name=April-Schedule-Change-for-Mickey-Rooney-Tribute