Mickey RooneyFilmography

Born:: September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Joe Yule, Jr.
Biography:: A versatile American screen actor and former juvenile star who made up in energy what he lacked in height, Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920, in Brooklyn, NY. The son of vaudevillians, Rooney first became a part of the family act when he was 15-months-old, and was...Read More

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Lost Stallions: The Journey Home

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Jan Chamberlin, Roger Willie, Megan Blake, Alex Hugh

Synopsis: The popular Lost Stallions series continues with this story about a troubled teenager attempting to cope with the recent death of his father, and the bond he forms with a rebellious stallion that is acting out after losing his mother. Ever since Jake Gattison (Alex Hugh)'s father died, the Read More

2008
The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond

Synopsis: This documentary takes an in-depth look at the cultural phenomenon of The Wizard of Oz, following the original L. Frank Baum story from its initial publication, through a number of adaptations to both the stage and screen, including the classic 1939 film starring Judy Garland, and the wildly Read More

2008
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams

Actors: Julian Adams, Gwendolyn Edwards, Eric Holloway, Amy Redford, Nelson McCord

Synopsis: A man finds himself torn between the love of his homeland, the love of his family, and the love of a woman in this period drama based on a true story. Robert Adams (Julian Adams) is a Southern gentleman who is helping to run the plantation run by his grandfather (Weston Adams) as the Civil War Read More

6/8/07
The Greatest Show Ever

2007
Night at the Museum

Actors: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams

Synopsis: The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a Read More

12/22/06
To Kill a Mockumentary

2006
Judy Garland: Judy Duets

Actors: Judy Garland

Synopsis: Judy Garland: Duets collects several television appearances by the singer in which she performs with fellow celebrities. The release includes collaborations with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bobby Darin, and Lena Horne. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2005
The Happy Elf

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr., Kevin Michael Richardson

Synopsis: One of Santa's little helpers learns that even spreading Christmas cheer can be quite a chore in this animated holiday adventure featuring the voice and music of Harry Connick, Jr. Few elves display half the Christmas cheer of Eubie, and when the grumpy town of Bluesville refuses to celebrate the Read More

2005
A Christmas Too Many

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney (B.J. Lang Presents, Curse of the Red Baron) and {$Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes) co-star in the family-oriented, direct-to-video holiday comedy A Christmas Too Many (2005). This farce concerns an aging Hollywood actress who invites her eccentric and nutty family to stay with her Read More

2005
Illusion Infinity

Actors: Dee Wallace Stone, Mickey Rooney, Barbara Carrera, Martin Kove

Synopsis: A successful Las Vegas singer who lost everything when her casino mogul husband dropped dead of a heart attack gets a second shot at happiness after leaving town in the middle of the night and encountering a spiritual guide who shows her just what she's been missing all these years. Patricia Read More

2004
The Fighting Temptations

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Beyoncé Knowles, Melba Moore, Mike Epps, Shirley Caesar

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Lynn followed up the surprise hit The Whole Nine Yards with this musical comedy starring Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Gooding plays Darrin, a shallow New York advertising executive, who travels to a small town in the deep south upon receiving word that his aunt has Read More

9/19/03
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure

Actors: Scott Wolf, Alyssa Milano, Chazz Palminteri, Jeff Bennett, Jodi Benson

Synopsis: Disney's 1955 classic Lady and the Tramp is revisited in this new animated family video. The story finds Lady and Tramp the proud parents of a litter of pups that includes three well-behaved girls and one rambunctious boy puppy named Scamp (voiced by Scott Wolf). In search of adventure and a Read More

2001
Stories From My Childhood Vol. 1

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Laura San Giacomo, Kathleen Turner, Mickey Rooney

1999
The First of May

Actors: Julie Harris, Dan Byrd, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Its titled derived from a circus term describing an inexperienced performer in his first season, director Paul Sirmons film is adapted from author Gail Radley's popular novel of the same name. The story centers on the friendship between an eleven year old foster child named Cory (Dan Byrd) and an Read More

1999
Babe: Pig in the City

Actors: Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell, Mary Stein, Mickey Rooney, Julie Godfrey

Synopsis: The 1995 Academy award-winning film Babe was Australian-made and featured the latest in talking animal anima-tronics. It told the heart-warming story of a sheepherding pig named Babe and his rise to community fame. The film was a tremendous hit, both financially and critically. Babe: Pig in the Read More

11/25/98
Michael Kael Contre La World News Company

Actors: Benoit Delepine, Marine Delterme, Victoria Principal, Mickey Rooney, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: Christophe Smith made his directorial debut with this media satire, set on December 14, 1999, about a TV news network in cahoots with Washington on Operation Crazy Guru -- a plan to get a U.S. president re-elected for a third term. Griffith (Mickey Rooney), head of the Miami-based international Read More

1998
ER: Exodus

Synopsis: A toxic benzine spill in the ER waiting room forces the evacuation of all the patients. With Weaver (Laura Innes) suffering the ill effects of the spill, Carter is placed in charge of the "exodus." Meanwhile, Corday (Alex Kingston) goes on an EMT ridealong, ultimately risking her life to treat Leo Read More

1998
Boys Will Be Boys

Actors: Randy Travis, Julie Hagerty, Jon Voight, Michael DeLuise, Catherine Oxenberg

Synopsis: In this family-oriented action adventure, two bickering brothers settle their differences long enough to stop the crooked business rivals who are trying to destroy their father's career. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Animals (And The Tollkeeper)

Actors: Tim Roth, Mili Avital, Rod Steiger, Mickey Rooney, John Turturro

Synopsis: Michael Di Jiacomo made his directorial debut with this allegory that opens with a 12-minute black-and-white prologue about three French filmmakers who encounter the tuba-playing Tollkeeper (Mickey Rooney) on a silent stretch between two ghost towns in the Utah desert. In NYC, an armed thief (John Turturro Read More

1997
Killing Midnight

Synopsis: A mystery writer's life is turned upside down when a series of killings start to mimic the plot of his first novel. Trouble starts when a neighbor of novelist William Rhodes (Ryan Alosio) is found dead near his boat in the same fashion as a murder described in Rhodes' book "Killing Midnight." Soon Read More

1997
Judy Garland's Hollywood

Synopsis: Though many fans will always fondly recall Judy Garland's wonderful portrayal of young Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Garland herself was apparently most proud of the role she played in A Star Is Born. In this film, which opened in 1954, Garland portrayed an actress who sees her career blossom as Read More

1997
Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM

Synopsis: This is a documentary film about the work of a legendary producer of musicals. After winning his laurels in 1939 as the assistant producer of The Wizard of Oz, MGM set up a whole studio for Arthur Freed. He began his career as a singer/songwriter and as an actor, (he appeared with the Marx Brothers Read More

1996
Private Screenings: With Mickey Rooney

Actors: Mickey Rooney

1996
Remember When... A Sentimental Journey Back in Time

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney hosts this memorable look at the "good old days" -- and some places where the vestiges of simpler times still exist. Icons of America's golden days, from Howdy Doody to Norman Rockwell paintings on the cover of Life magazines, are recalled with fondness. The viewer then travels to Read More

1995
Outlaws: The Legend Of O.B. Taggart

1994
Revenge of the Red Baron

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Tobey Maguire, Laraine Newman, Cliff De Young, Ronnie Schell

Synopsis: In this "sequel" to Roger Corman's 1971 Von Richtofen and Brown (produced by Corman himself), a toy World War I plane belonging to a young boy (Tobey Maguire) is possessed by the spirit of the deceased Red Baron. The possessed plane begins killing people with real bullets from a toy machine gun. Read More

1994
Jonathan Winters: The Madman of Comedy

1994
Full House: Arrest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Synopsis: Racing against time to exchange a gift they'd bought for Danny (Bob Saget), Jesse (John Stamos) and Michelle (the Olsen twins) are placed under "house arrest" on Christmas Eve by curmudgeonly toy store owner Mr. Dreghorn (Mickey Rooney). As it turns out, old man Dreghorn isn't nearly as nasty as Read More

1994
That's Entertainment! III

Actors: June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Lena Horne, Howard Keel, Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: In 1974, MGM Studios released its first compilation of musical highlights from 45 years of Hollywood extravaganzas. Entitled That's Entertainment!, it was a big box-office hit and inspired a second compilation two years later. Eighteen years went by before MGM tried again. The third installment of Read More

1994
Murder, She Wrote: Bloodlines

Synopsis: In 1944, Angela Lansbury and Mickey Rooney both appeared in the classic racetrack film National Velvet. The two veterans are reunited in this story, which appropriately enough revolves around a thoroughbred horse, and two families who have staked everything in an upcoming race. When her old Read More

1993
La Vida Lactea

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Marianne Sägebrecht, William Hootkins, May Hatherley, Emma Suarez, Michel McKaine

Synopsis: Reviewers agreed that this cinematic disaster deserves an "A" for effort, at the very least, and also deserves its place on the shelves beside such astonishingly awful films as Plan 9 From Outer Space. In the story, the aged millionaire Barry Reilly (Mickey Rooney) lives on a huge estate in Read More

1993
Wolf Mountain

Synopsis: Craig Clyde, the filmmaker behind The Long Road Home, helms another family adventure with this story of three rambunctious youngsters who are accidentally kidnapped by a pair of bumbling crooks. Successfully driving the bad guys up the wall, the kids are eventually dropped off and left to fend for Read More

1993
The Legend of Wolf Mountain

Actors: Bo Hopkins, Mickey Rooney, Robert Z'Dar, David Shark, Don Shanks, Matthew Lewis

Synopsis: This family adventure film focuses on the struggles of a trio of schoolchildren (Nicole Lund, Matthew Lewis and Jonathan Best) taken hostage by a pair of escaped convicts. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

11/20/92
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

Actors: Gabriel Damon, René Auberjonois, Mickey Rooney, Danny Mann, Laura Mooney

Synopsis: Adventure is only limited by imagination in this exciting animated fantasy from The Goonies writer Chris Columbus. Warmly welcomed to the Kingdom of Slumberland by the king himself, young Nemo is christened heir to the throne and given a magical key that will open any door in the kingdom. Though Read More

8/21/92
The Adventures of the Black Stallion: Season 03

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Richard Ian Cox, Marianne Filali, David Taylor

1992
Maximum Force

Actors: Richard Lynch, Sherrie Rose, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: This crime thriller concerns three cops (Jason Carver, Sam J. Jones, Sherrie Rose) and their quest to stop a criminal kingpin (Richard Lynch) and the corrupt chief of police (Mickey Rooney). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Sweet Justice

Actors: Marc Singer

Synopsis: Suzanne is a crooked small-town mayor who pockets illegal money and looks the other way while a local manufacturer dumps industrial waste into an abandoned mine shaft. Unfortunately, she discovers that her partner has also been illegally dumping dangerous toxic substances and that they are Read More

1992
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Balthazar Getty, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Julie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl (Tess Harper) Read More

3/1/91
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

Actors: Gene Barry, James Drury, Doug McClure, Rick Rossovich, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western diehards as the best. This time, gambler Brady Hawkes is en route to a high-stakes poker game in San Francisco. His travelling companions are a trouble-prone frontier Romeo (Rick Rossovich Read More

1991
The Adventures of the Black Stallion: Season 02

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Richard Ian Cox, Marianne Filali

1991
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker

Actors: Brian Bremer, Jane Higginson, William Thorne, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In this horror film, malicious toymaker Joe Petto (Mickey Rooney) and his creepy son, Pino (Brian Bremer), terrorize the residents of a small town with the deadly toys they create. After her husband is killed by one of Petto's toys, Sarah (Jane Higginson) and her troubled son Derek (William Read More

1991
Mickey Rooney on Acting

1991
The Black Stallion

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Richard Ian Cox, Marianne Filali

Synopsis: Experience the magic of author Carroll Ballard's timeless tale all over again as screen star Mickey Rooney returns to the role that earned him his fourth Academy Award nomination, and follow the further adventures of the Black Stallion as based on Walter Farley's continuation of the series. Read More

1990
The Adventures of the Black Stallion: Season 01

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Richard Ian Cox, Michelle Goodger, Virginie Demians, Jean Paul Solal

1990
Home for Christmas

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Home for Christmas is a made-for-television film about a young girl who wants a grandfather for Christmas. She chooses an elderly, homeless ex-con (Mickey Rooney) as her pseudo-grandfather and he teaches her and her family--as well as his long-estranged son--the true meaning of Christmas in this Read More

1990
Erik the Viking

Actors: Tim Robbins, Gary Cady, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones

Synopsis: An unusually principled young Viking becomes increasing uncomfortable with all the killing and plundering that goes with the job, and sets out on a magical journey in order to bring about world peace. Former Monty Python member Terry Jones attempts to have his story of Erik's seemingly hopeless Read More

9/22/89
Ronnie Dearest: The Lost Episodes

1988
Bluegrass

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Brian Kerwin, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Andrews, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Bluegrass was a two-part TV movie that resurrected virtually every "racetrack" cliche known to man. Widowed Cheryl Ladd heads to Kentucky to start up a horse farm. Her wicked neighbor is Wayne Rogers who seeks Ladd's downfall. Faithful farm manager Brian Kerwin won't let Rogers stand in the way of Read More

1988
Lightning: The White Stallion

Actors: Isabel Lorca, Mickey Rooney, Susan George, Billy Wesley

Synopsis: In this drama, Barney Ingram (Mickey Rooney) is a gambler who's lost his money, only to discover his favorite horse Lightning has been stolen. A young woman with severe vision problems named Stephanie (Isabel Lorca) is the only one able to ride Lightning to a sure victory. A group of tough-talking Read More

10/17/86
The Spencer Tracy Legacy

1986
Little Spies

Synopsis: Originally telecast as a two-hour episode of ABC's Wonderful World of Disney anthology, Little Spies gets under way when a bunch of kids lose their adopted dog to the mean owner of a puppy kennel. Enter Jimmy the Hermit (Mickey Rooney), a reclusive WW2 hero who takes a shine to the youngsters. Read More

1986
The Care Bears Movie

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Georgia Engel, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In a film designed to bring smiles to the post-toddler set on up to perhaps their seven-year-old siblings, this animated story by Arna Selznick (only the third woman in cinematic history to direct a full-length animated feature) is about the popular Care Bears. These loving creatures inhabit a Read More

1985
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney stars in this made-for-TV holiday effort as an angel who refuses to renege on his promise to spend one final Christmas with his grandson (Scott Grimes). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Bill: On His Own

Actors: Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Bill: On His Own is the laudable made-for-TV sequel to the Emmy-winning 1981 film Bill. Mickey Rooney once more shines as Bill Sackter, a mentally-retarded adult struggling to survive in the mainstream. The owner of a coffee kiosk at the University of Iowa, Bill becomes disoriented when his friend Read More

1983
Hollywood Outtakes and Rare Footage

Synopsis: Rather than a compilation of a series of hilarious bloopers, plus scenes of current stars never-before shown to the public, this collection of film clips focuses on a Hollywood of long ago. Stars from Warner Bros. in the 1930s and '40s are shown in out-takes that mainly illustrate their short Read More

1983
La Traversée de la Pacific

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Starr, Anick, Guy Hoffman, Jean-Louis Roux

Synopsis: A potentially moving story about a Cambodian orphan and his quest to return home is trivialized by overacting and exaggeration in this fantasy tale meant for family fare. Toby (Jonathan Starr) and Liz (Anick) live with their aunt and uncle in bucolic happiness, and one day a Cambodian orphan Read More

1982
Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July

Synopsis: Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July is an animated feature where Santa Claus must rescue Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman from a cruel wizard who has stranded the beloved characters on a sunny seashore. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Hollywood's Children

Actors: Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Directed in 1982 by Gene Feldman, this acclaimed documentary examines the emotional price child actors pay for being Hollywood stars. Narrated by Roddy McDowall, who was himself a child star, this program also looks at how well child stars have made the transition to adulthood. The program Read More

1982
Senior Trip

Synopsis: The final made-for-TV movie of the calendar year 1981 (it was originally telecast on December 30), Senior Trip combines music, comedy and pathos to tell the story of a group of graduates from a staid Ohio high school. Though tightly chaperoned on their titular trip to New York City, the kids Read More

1981
Bill

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: This Emmy-winning made-for-TV movie, based on a book by Oscar-winning screenwriter Barry Morrow (from his true story), stars Mickey Rooney in the title role of a mentally-challenged adult who has spent his life holed up in a bleak institution. When documentary filmmaker Morrow (Dennis Quaid) and Read More

1981
Leave 'em Laughing

Crew: Singer

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney stars in this made-for-TV docudrama as circus clown Jack Thum, who aids his wife (Anne Jackson) in raising dozens of orphans; despite learning he is dying, Jack still struggles to earn money to support his growing brood. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Treasure Train

Synopsis: In this drama, an elderly engineer living in an empty railway station takes in three homeless children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Misunderstood Monsters

Synopsis: A delightful feature that tells how a young boy learns about inner feeling and their importance. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1981
The Fox and the Hound

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: The Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound tells the story of a friendship between traditional enemies. Tod is a fox whose parents have died. His best friend is a hunting dog named Copper. As Copper grows up, he learns that it is his job to hunt foxes. Tod's caretaker Widow Tweed takes Tod Read More

1981
My Kidnapper, My Love

Synopsis: Actor Sam Wanamaker directed this made-for-television drama about an abduction with a twist. When a disabled news vendor kidnaps a wealthy girl in an effort to get ransom money, he unexpectedly finds the emotionally disturbed young woman falling in love with him. The film was adapted from Oscar Read More

1980
The Magic of Lassie

Actors: James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Pernell Roberts, Stephanie Zimbalist, Michael Sharrett

Synopsis: This first Lassie film in nearly three decades (discounting the various feature-length compilations of Lassie TV episodes) is worth watching for its veteran cast. Lassie is legally wrested from freckled-faced Michael Sharrett by evil Pernell Roberts, who hopes that the kid's grandpa Jimmy Stewart Read More

1979
The Black Stallion

Actors: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse, Hoyt Axton

Synopsis: This beautifully mounted adaptation of Walter Farley's story for children tells the tale of Alec (Kelly Reno), a young boy touring the world with his adventurous salesman father (Hoyt Axton). While travelling back to the United States by ship, Alec discovers a wild, beautiful Arabian stallion Read More

1979
Arabian Adventure

Actors: Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Puncet Sira

Synopsis: A valiant prince battles an evil sorcerer to rescue his true love in this colorful fantasy, which features high adventure and plenty of special effects. The hero must overcome a number of dangers, along the way receiving help from a beautiful street urchin and a magical rose. ~ Judd Blaise, All Read More

1979
Donovan's Kid

Actors: Shelley Fabares

Synopsis: Set in 1900s San Francisco, Donovan's Kid stars Darren McGavin as pugnacious Irishman Timothy Donovan. Together with his sidekick Old Bailey (Mickey Rooney), Donovan attempts to rescue his wife and daughter from the autocratic rule of his wife's uncle. Shelley Fabares and Murray Hamilton costar in Read More

1978
Pete's Dragon

Actors: Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Based on a story by Hollywood old-timers Seton I. Miller and S. S. Field, Pete's Dragon divides its time between its flesh-and-blood characters and an animated blue dragon. Pete (Sean Marshall), a lonely orphan boy in turn-of-the-century Maine, runs away from his abusive foster family. He stumbles Read More

1977
The Domino Principle

Actors: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert

Synopsis: Stanley Kramer directed this paranoid thriller involving a murderer who is inexplicably released from prison by a mysterious organization. Gene Hackman is Roy Tucker, serving time in San Quentin when he's busted out by a secret organization in return for having to assassinate an unnamed person. Read More

1977
Hooray for Hollywood

Synopsis: Screen veteran Mickey Rooney narrates Hooray for Hollywood, a new home-video release offering those film buffs nostalgic for the golden era of Tinseltown a trip through virtually every American genre of the 1930s. Included are precious clips from dozens of Hollywood's most acclaimed motion Read More

1975
Rachel's Man

Synopsis: The great Biblical romance between Jacob and Rachel provides the basis of this costume drama. The trouble begins when the young woman's stern father demands that they wait seven years before they wed. On the blessed day the wedding occurs and that night the union is consummated. The next day Read More

1975
Ace of Hearts

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney stars in The Ace of Hearts as a zillionaire who offers a fortune to have himself killed. Down-at-heel Chris Robinson takes the job. Is that all there is to it, or is Rooney up to something? The plot isn't bad, but production values are spotty. Ace of Hearts was filmed partly on Read More

1975
Bons Baisers de Hong Kong

Actors: Les Charlots, Mickey Rooney, David Tomlinson, Clifton James

Synopsis: Les Charlots, a French comedy/music troupe, caper through this James Bond spoof. Responding to news that the real James Bond is dead, the French offer the services of the inept foursome, members of France's secret service. The British Queen (Huguette Funfrok) has been kidnapped and taken to Hong Read More

1975
Find the Lady

Actors: John Candy

Synopsis: A pre-stardom John Candy first teamed with John Dane in the wacky Canadian comedy-melodrama It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. Playing the same characters--a pair of incompetent cops--Candy and Dane reunited for Find the Lady. Alas, even Candy's considerable comic gifts couldn't save this Read More

1975
That's Entertainment!

Actors: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Peter Lawford

Synopsis: It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off artifacts from past movie triumphs, enjoyed one of its biggest box-office hits with That's Entertainment, a compilation of musical highlights from the studio's golden days. Read More

1974
The Year without a Santa Claus

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Shirley Booth

Synopsis: In Jules Bass' puppet-animated A Year Without A Santa Claus, an elf and a young boy have to rescue Santa from the evil Heat Meiser and Snow Meiser. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Women's Prison Escape

Synopsis: In this exploitation adventure, four female inmates bust out and head for the Everglades, where they face untold dangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Godmothers

Crew: Screenwriter

1973
Richard

Synopsis: This prescient satirical drama (it came out before Watergate) takes a harsh look at Richard Nixon. His rise to political power is chronicled from his boyhood to his first go at becoming a Congressional candidate to his involvement with three devilish advisers. Later after suffering a series of Read More

1972
Pulp

Actors: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Nadia Cassini

Synopsis: A year after Get Carter (1971), director Mike Hodges and star Michael Caine reunited for this comic crime thriller. Caine stars as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels, living in Rome and cranking one noir book after another. King is approached by Ben Dinuccio (Lionel Stander) Read More

1972
B.J. Lang Presents

Synopsis: This cheapo melodrama was filmed in 1971, long before Mickey Rooney's celebrated comeback via The Black Stallion. Rooney plays a looney film director who acts out his fantasies before an audience of one: an ingenue whom he has kidnapped and spirited away to a deserted movie warehouse. "B"-film Read More

1971
Journey Back to Oz

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In this animated follow-up to the classic fantasy The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy (voiced by Liza Minnelli, whose mother Judy Garland played the same role in the 1939 film) decides to return to the land of Oz to pay a visit to her good friend The Scarecrow (voice of Mickey Rooney). However, shortly Read More

1971
Evil Roy Slade

Actors: Edie Adams, John Astin, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson, John Ritter, Dick Shawn, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Penny Marshall, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Overlooked when it first aired February 18, 1972, the made-for-TV Evil Roy Slade has gained a loyal and protective cult following in the past 20 years. The film was the second pilot for a never-sold TV western spoof created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, Sheriff Who?. Actually, it was the Read More

1971
The Manipulator

Synopsis: A film-industry makeup man (Mickey Rooney) goes crazy in Manipulator, kidnapping an actress and holding her hostage on a back lot. The film is R-rated for violence and nudity. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

Actors: Dan Blocker, Nanette Fabray, Jim Backus, Wally Cox, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Charley (Dan Blocker) is the kindly but simple-minded blacksmith who sends a year's earnings back East for a mail-order bride. When he and the town turn out for the woman's arrival at the train station, he is embarrassed when she never appears. The saddened giant plans to leave town. The Read More

1970
Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Actors: Keenan Wynn, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: The story of how Santa Claus came to be is brought to life through the magic of stop-motion animation in this Christmas-themed production for the family. A friendly postman (voiced by Fred Astaire) explains how friendly Kris Kringle (voice of Mickey Rooney), a foundling taken in by a family of Read More

1970
Hollywood Blue

Actors: Mickey Rooney, June Wilkerson

Synopsis: Hollywood Blue is a compilation of scenes taken from cinematic pornography over the years. Mickey Rooney and June Wilkerson are interviewed and give their thoughts about the late Jane Mansfield. Supposedly, Marilyn Monroe is the subject of one film where the female writhes on the floor in her Read More

1970
A Woman for Charlie

Synopsis: In this comedy western, a town rallies together to help a heart-broken blacksmith find new love after his mail-order-bride is a no show. They end up pairing him with a dance hall girl. The story is also called Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1969
The Comic

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, Cornel Wilde, Nina Wayne

Synopsis: In The Comic, Dick Van Dyke plays Billy Bright, silent-era film comedian. The opening scene is at his funeral in which his sidekick Cockeye (Mickey Rooney) honors his partner's last request by hitting the preacher in the face with a pie. Van Dyke's voice then narrates the life story of the comic Read More

1969
80 Steps to Jonah

Actors: Wayne Newton, Jo Van Fleet, Keenan Wynn, Diana Ewing, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Wayne Newton is the hero of the warm-hearted family feature 80 Steps to Jonah. The piping-voiced Newton is accused of car thievery, but who could doubt the sincerity of that angelic face? On the lam from the cops, he takes a job at a summer camp for blind children. Passing himself off as the new Read More

1969
The Extraordinary Seaman

Actors: David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda, Mickey Rooney, Jack Carter

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directed this tepid World War II comedy set in the Philippines. When four American soldiers -- Lieutenant Morton Krim (Alan Alda), Cook 3rd Class W.J. Oglethorpe (Mickey Rooney), Gunner's Mate Orville Toole (Jack Carter), and Seaman 1st Class Lightfoot Star (Manu Tupou) -- are Read More

1969
Skidoo

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this notorious comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays Tony, a mid-level gangster and former hired killer not very happy with his life. He bickers a lot with his wife Flo (Carol Read More

1968
L'Arcidiavolo

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Mickey Rooney, Claudine Auger, Annabella Incontrera

Synopsis: This mild comedy finds two envoys from Hell sent to Earth to cause trouble. Relfagor (Vittorio Gassman) and his faithful sidekick Adramalek (Mickey Rooney) start out by disintegrating the peace soon to take place between Rome and Florence. While traveling, they manage to seduce the wife of an Read More

12/21/66
The Fugitive: This'll Kill You

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney guest stars as Charlie Paris, a former standup comedian and Syndicate bookie who has "gone straight" and is running the Yonkers laundromat where Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is presently employed. Unfortunately, some gamblers who knew Charlie back in his mob days have come to town Read More

1966
Ambush Bay

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney, James Mitchum, Peter Masterson, Harry Lauter

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, a unit of Marines have 96 hours to make it through the dense Philippine jungle and locate a Japanese-American girl who has information needed to plan the invasion of the Japanese-occupied island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
24 Hours to Kill

Synopsis: 24 Hours to Kill is an all-star crime caper filmed as an apparent tax write-off in Europe and Lebanon. Mickey Rooney plays an American airline purser whose greed gets the better of him. During a 24-hour layover in Beirut he transports a cache of stolen goods, which brings him to the attention of Read More

1966
The Lucy Show: Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Steven Marlo

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney shows up at the bank, hoping to float a loan from Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) to set up an acting school. The Mick gets the dough, only to find out that his first pupils are none other than Mr. Mooney and a certain redhead named Lucy (Lucille Ball). Suffice to say that the two would-be Read More

1966
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

Actors: Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton, Beverly Adams

Synopsis: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is considered to be the strangest of the "Beach Party" movies. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is off in the navy, serving in the South Pacific, and nervous about all of the guys that will be hitting on Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) back at the beach. He makes a deal with an Read More

7/14/65
Combat!: Silver Service

Synopsis: While stopping at a rest camp, Kirby (Jack Hogan) is shaken out of his temporary complacency by a surprise German attack. Making his escape, Kirby teams up with Harry White (Mickey Rooney), a pugnacious truck driver who jealously guards the locked duffel bag in the back of his vehicle. It turns Read More

1964
The Secret Invasion

Actors: Stewart Granger, Mickey Rooney, Edward Byrnes, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Producer/director Roger Corman briefly abandoned Edgar Allan Poe for The Secret Invasion, a commendable attempt to make a war epic on a "B" budget. The story is a scaled-down precursor to The Dirty Dozen: Five criminals are given a chance at a pardon by agreeing to participate in a suicide Read More

1964
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the Read More

11/7/63
The Twilight Zone: The Last Night of a Jockey

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier Alcoa/Goodyear Theater episode "Eddie," Mickey Rooney delivers a tour de force solo performance in the Twilight Zone playlet "The Last Night of a Jockey." Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady (Rooney) boozily expresses the wish to escape his Read More

1963
Requiem for a Heavyweight

Actors: Muhammad Ali, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris, Stanley Adams

Synopsis: One of the most memorable sports dramas because of its strong character development, Requiem for a Heavyweight is carried by Anthony Quinn as the washed-up boxer Mountain Rivera, and Jackie Gleason as his sleazy manager, Maish Rennick. In the opening scenes, Cassius Clay -- before he became Muhammad Ali Read More

1962
King of the Roaring '20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein

Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Mickey Shaughnessy, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: David Janssen is hardly perfect casting for the role of 1920s gambling king Arnold Rothstein (Rod Steiger or Gene Barry may have been better choices), but the sure-handed direction of Joseph Newman smooths over all the rough spots in this fanciful biopic. Set up in the gambling business by crooked Read More

1961
Who Killed Julie Greer?

1961
Everything's Ducky

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jackie Cooper, Joanie Sommers, Roland Winters

Synopsis: This fantasy-comedy is directed by Don Taylor whose specialty is horror and action flics, and clearly not talking ducks and children's tales. Beetle McKay (Mickey Rooney) and Admiral John Paul Jones (Buddy Hackett) are two wacky sailors who make friends with a talking duck, a verbose avian that Read More

1961
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a Read More

1961
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

Crew: Director

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Mamie van Doren, Fay Spain, Mel Tormé, Martin Milner

Synopsis: This parody of Genesis caused an uproar before and during its release (the final version was reworked and cut) though its routine or worse cinematic level would not encourage large audiences. The story begins with a busload of men and women with hang-ups in the romance department, all heading for Read More

1961
Platinum High School

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea, Conway Twitty, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: This is a low-budget, standard drama by Charles Haas (his last film) in which a father investigates the mysterious death of his son in a military school. Steven Conway (Mickey Rooney) never knew his son who was raised by the ex-Mrs. Conway after their divorce. The son had been enrolled in a Read More

1960
The Last Mile

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Clifford David, Harry Millard, John McCurry, Ford Rainey

Synopsis: A late '50s upgrade of the 1931 film by the same title, this version of trouble on death row by Howard Koch is more violent than its predecessor -- a hint of the trend toward shock for its own sake that would one day dominate action films and thrillers. The setting is a cell block of nine inmates Read More

1959
The Big Operator

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Danton

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney plays labor racketeer Little Joe Braun in this fast-paced and surprisingly violent drama about one man's determination to clean up his union. Bill Gibson (Steve Cochran) is Little Joe's nemesis and is one of the men who can testify that he saw the labor boss in an incriminating Read More

1959
Andy Hardy Comes Home

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Sara Haden, Frank Ferguson

Synopsis: With Andy Hardy Comes Home, Mickey Rooney hoped to revive the character -- and the movie series -- that had brought him fame and fortune back in the 1930s and 1940s. Returning to his home town of Carvel after several years absence, lawyer Andy Hardy (Rooney) brings his wife Jane (Patricia Breslin) Read More

1958
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

Synopsis: In this comedy, an auto mechanic and a horse trainer successfully steal $30,000 from a bank and squander it. They buy a race horse with the remainder, but need money to train it, so they rob another bank and are caught this time. The bank takes over ownership of the horse, which becomes a big Read More

1958
Operation Mad Ball

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Grant, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Rooney, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: In this frantic service comedy, a group of bored-to-tears American GI's stationed at a medical facility in France would like nothing more than to have a big party to let off steam -- except for the possibility of having a big party with some of the nurses they work with. However, it seems that the Read More

1957
Baby Face Nelson

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Christopher Dark, Leo Gordon, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the unflinching, trigger-happy member of the infamous Dillinger gang that besieged the Midwest circa 1933. Rooney is Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis and Carolyn Jones his gun Read More

1957
Playhouse 90: The Comedian

Synopsis: Rod Serling wasn't telling whom he based the leading character of his TV play The Comedian upon, but sharp-eyed viewers could detect traces of everyone from Milton Berle to Red Buttons. Mickey Rooney stars as a top-rated television comedian who is all love-and-kisses when before the cameras but a Read More

1957
Pinocchio

Actors: Mickey Rooney

1957
Magnificent Roughnecks

Actors: Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney, Nancy Gates, Jeff Donnell, Myron Healey

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney and Jack Carson make an offbeat but somehow endearing team in the comedy-adventure Magnificent Roughnecks. Set in South American, the story concerns the exploits of oilmen Frank Sommers (Rooney) and Bix Decker (Jack Carson). The two brawling buddies come to blows over the affections Read More

1956
Jaguar

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sabu, Chiquita, Barton MacLane, Jonathan Hale

Synopsis: Though Mickey Rooney is listed as coproducer of Jaguar, the star of the proceedings is East Indian actor Sabu, here cast as a young South American. Though raised in a civilized atmosphere, Juano (Sabu) cannot quite shake the savage instincts of his jungle-bred forefathers. When he is falsely Read More

1956
The Bold and the Brave

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, Don Taylor, Nicole Maurey, John Smith

Synopsis: Bold and the Brave traces the destinies of three American soldiers stationed in Italy during World War II. Wendell Corey is top-billed as an idealistic soul who doesn't believe in killing. Don Taylor portrays a religious bigot, who can't see anything in terms other than Good and Evil. The most Read More

1956
Francis in the Haunted House

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Virginia Welles, James Flavin, Paul Cavanagh, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: Though both star Donald O'Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the "Francis the Talking Mule" series, Universal-International wasn't about to give up on so valuable a property. Thus, Francis in the Haunted House starred Mickey Rooney, with Charles Barton calling the shots. Likewise Read More

1956
The Twinkle in God's Eye

Crew: Producer, Songwriter

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Coleen Gray, Hugh O'Brian, Joey Forman

Synopsis: Twinkle in God's Eye, Mickey Rooney's second personal production for Republic Pictures, is at the very least an improvement upon the first (The Atomic Kid). More subdued than usual, Rooney stars as Rev. Macklin, a greenhorn clergyman who tries to spread the Good Word to a rowdy western town. Read More

1955
The Atomic Kid

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Davis, Bill Goodwin, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: The Atomic Kid strives mightily to wring laughs from the otherwise humorless topic of atomic radiation. Mickey Rooney (who also produced the film) and Robert Strauss play a couple of brainless prospectors who stumble upon a A-bomb testing site. Led to believe that the area is rich with uranium, Strauss Read More

1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Actors: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by James Michener, this film stars William Holden as Harry Brubaker, a former military pilot who served in World War II. When he's called back into duty during the Korean conflict, Brubaker is angry, believing he's already served his country and needs to devote himself to his Read More

1954
Drive a Crooked Road

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly, Harry Landers

Synopsis: Auto mechanic and wannabe race-car driver Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) allows himself to be led perilously astray in Drive a Crooked Road. Responding to the come-hither looks of sexy Barbara Mathews (Dianne Foster), Eddie is inveigled into participating in a bank heist. Things then go from bad to Read More

1954
A Slight Case of Larceny

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart, Marilyn Erskine, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: "Slight" is right: this harmless comedy programmer is as inconsequential as it is enjoyable. It's the tale of two Army buddies: go-getter Geechy Cheevers (Mickey Rooney) and sedate family man Freddie Clopp (Eddie Bracken). Inveigling his way into Freddie's household, Geechy drives everyone bonkers Read More

1953
Off Limits

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie Mayehoff, Stanley Clements

Synopsis: At age 50, Bob Hope was getting a bit too long in tooth for frenzied farces like Off Limits, but his surplus of energy makes up for his chronological unsuitability. Hope plays the manager of boxing champ Stanley Clements, who has just received his draft notice. Gangster Marvin Miller strong-arms Read More

1953
All Ashore

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald, Barbara Bates

Synopsis: Co-written by director Richard Quine and Blake Edwards, All Ashore has so many excellent individual components that one wishes the sum total was better than it is. Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes and Ray McDonald play a trio of eternally broke sailors, on shore leave at Catalina Island. Because of his Read More

1953
Sound Off

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Anne James, Sammy White, John Archer, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: Sound Off stars Mickey Rooney as Mike Donnelly, a brash, obnoxious nightclub entertainer who is taken down a peg or two when he's drafted into the army. When not crossing swords with tough sergeant Crockett (Gordon Jones), Mike has to contend with the poison-pen vitriol of columnist Barney Fisher (Arthur Space Read More

1952
The Strip

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig, Kay Brown

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip. Rooney is cast as Stanley Maxton, an aspiring drummer who has the misfortune to fall within the orbit of bookie Sunny Johnson (James Craig). Out of the goodness of his heart Read More

1951
My True Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Helen Walker, Willard Parker, Elizabeth Risdon, Emory Parnell

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney made his directorial debut with My True Story. Per its title, the film is based on an article which first appeared in the pages of True Story magazine. Jewel thief Ann Martin (Helen Walker) is paroled thanks to some string-pulling by criminal boss George Trent (Wilton Graff). Ann Read More

1951
My Outlaw Brother

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Carlos Muzquiz

Synopsis: This medium-budget western is also known as My Brother, the Outlaw and Outlaw Brother. Mickey Rooney plays an Eastern dude who heads westward to visit his brother Robert Stack. When ranger Robert Preston informs Rooney that Stack is a wanted outlaw, the Mick refuses to believe it. But when Read More

1951
The Fireball

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney is The Fireball in this independently produced sports film. The sport in this case is roller-skating, which was enjoying a resurgence of popularity in 1950 thanks to the various "Roller Derby" telecasts. Rooney plays Johnny Cesar, an orphan kid who rises to fame and fortune on the Read More

1950
Quicksand

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney, with his kid roles and musicals behind him, went for a major change of image in this harrowing film noir. He gives what many consider to be the best performance of his career as Danny Brady, a well-meaning grease monkey whose life is destroyed in less than a week. Danny finds Read More

1950
He's a Cockeyed Wonder

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, William Demarest, Charles Arnt, Ross Ford

Synopsis: He's a Cockeyed Wonder stars Mickey Rooney as the title character. Try as he might, Freddy Frisby (Rooney) can't succeed at anything. Things take an upward turn when Freddy inherits the estate of his uncle, a famed magician. Armed with all sorts of legerdemain, Freddy begins giving shows at local Read More

1950
The Big Wheel

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Michael O'Shea, Spring Byington, Mary Hatcher

Synopsis: In The Big Wheel, Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy, a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion race-car driver. On the way to the top, he steps on friends and foes alike. He even manages to briefly alienate his saintly mother (Spring Byington). The cocky Coy eventually kills another racer Read More

1949
The Sun Comes Up

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Claude Jarman, Jr., Percy Kilbride

Synopsis: In this drama, an embittered widow, a former concert singer, can't help but blame Lassie for her son's death. Needing help with her chores, she hires an orphan from the local home. At first she remains aloof towards the charming lad who quickly bonds with the collie dog, but as time passes she Read More

1949
Words and Music

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Perry Como, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: The life stories of Broadway tunesmiths Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are prettified for the screen in MGM's Words and Music. Billed fourth, the colorless Tom Drake plays Rodgers, but never mind that: the film belongs to Mickey Rooney, as the dynamic, self-destructive Lorenz Hart. Read More

1948
Summer Holiday

Actors: John Alexander, Mickey Rooney, Gloria de Haven, Walter Huston, Ruth Brady, Virginia Brissac, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Summer Holiday is a musical remake of the 1935 MGM comedy-drama Ah, Wilderness!, which in turn was adapted from the play by Eugene O'Neill. Mickey Rooney (who played a supporting role in the 1935 film) stars as O'Neill's alter ego Richard Miller, a young man coming of age in early 20th century New Read More

1948
Rusty Leads the Way

Actors: Ted Donaldson, Sharyn Moffett, John Litel, Ann Doran, Paula Raymond

Synopsis: Columbia's dog-and-boy "Rusty" series galloped ever forward with Rusty Leads the Way. This time, young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson) and his canine pal Rusty (played by "Flash") befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt (Penny Waters). Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her Read More

1948
Force of Evil

Actors: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Roy Roberts, Beatrice Pearson

Synopsis: John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned his scruples in favor of monetary reward. Morse now represents the interests of crime boss Ben Tucker (Roy Roberts), who plans to take over the numbers racket in New York. Read More

1948
Killer McCoy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn, Tom Tully

Synopsis: In one of his first "adult" roles (he made his last Andy Hardy vehicle only a year earlier), Mickey Rooney plays Tommy McCoy, a dancer who performs in a going-nowhere nightclub act with his alcoholic father, Brian (James Dunn). Johnny Martin (Mickey Knox), a lightweight boxing champ who is Read More

1947
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Bonita Granville, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Lina Romay

Synopsis: For his first post-WWII starring film, 26-year-old Mickey Rooney returned to familiar territory in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy. In true Art-Imitates-Life fashion, Rooney plays returning GI Andy Hardy, who arrives in his home town of Carvel to the open arms of his family: Father Judge Hardy (Lewis Read More

1946
National Velvet

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to Mickey Rooney in the showier role of Mike Taylor, a headstrong English ex-jockey. Soured on life by a serious accident, Mike plans to steal from the country family that has Read More

1944
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Sara Haden, Herbert Marshall

Synopsis: College boy Andy continues his studies in this comedy. Well, at least he should be studying. Unfortunately, he seems to be more interested in the pretty co-eds, especially the rambunctious Wilde twins. They cause poor Andy so much trouble that he begins plotting to drop out of school. Fortunately Read More

1944
Girl Crazy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland

Synopsis: This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and princess Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. The 1932 version of Girl Crazy de-emphasized the main plot, building up the comic subplot involving a timorous temporary sheriff and a Read More

1943
Show Business at War

1943
The Human Comedy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, Fay Bainter, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Ray Collins, Van Johnson

Synopsis: Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator Ray Collins is dead before the film begins; thus he is able to provide an all-seeing overview of the tiny community of Ithaca, California. The principal character, played by Mickey Rooney Read More

1943
Thousands Cheer

Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Mickey Rooney, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Red Skelton, Mary Astor, John Boles, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, José Iturbi

Synopsis: Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his fellow serviceman. Along the way, Eddy falls in love with Kathryn Jones (Kathryn Grayson), the daughter of Colonel William Jones (John Boles). End of story. The principal Read More

1943
A Yank at Eton

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter, Freddie Bartholomew, Marta Linden

Synopsis: MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle thrown in. This time it's Mickey Rooney as the cocky young American who is shipped off to England to complete his education. Upon his arrival in the hallowed halls of Eton Read More

1942
The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Actors: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Donna Reed, Fay Holden, William Lundigan, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: MGM's "Andy Hardy" series continued to rake in the bucks with its 12th entry, The Courtship of Andy Hardy. The story takes off when Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) tackles an unpleasant divorce case. Feeling that the root of the estranged couple's problem is the debilitating shyness of their daughter Read More

1942
Andy Hardy's Double Life

Actors: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's Double Life. Just as he did at Carvel High School, Andy majors in "girls" at college, at one point finding himself engaged simultaneously to two different coeds. On a more Read More

1942
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden, Kathryn Grayson

Synopsis: Andy is ready to graduate from high school, and, trying to be a big man, he hires a pretty woman to be his social secretary. When he fails his finals, he gets help from a kindly faculty member. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1941
Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Actors: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy Hardy. Upon his graduation from high school, Andy (Mickey Rooney) decides to seek his fortune in New York City without benefit of a college education, much to the consternation Read More

1941
Men of Boys Town

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Lee J. Cobb, Larry Nunn, Bobs Watson, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1938 boxoffice hit Boys Town, Spencer Tracy repeats his Oscar-winning role of Father Flanagan, with Mickey Rooney likewise reprising his characterization of reformed hoodlum Whitey Marsh. Still operating on the theory that "No boy is bad, if given a chance", Father Flanagan Read More

1941
Babes on Broadway

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Richard Quine, Virginia Weidler, Fay Bainter, Ray McDonald

Synopsis: Advertised as a sort of sequel to MGM's Babes in Arms (1939), Babes on Broadway reunites the two stars of the earlier film: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Rooney is the guiding force of a group of young showbiz hopefuls who are trying to make it on Broadway. When things look darkest, he goes into Read More

1941
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Judy Garland

Synopsis: The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the real-life wife of William Powell). It all comes about when Andy accompanies his dad Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) to New York. Plunging into the Manhattan social whirl, Andy is Read More

1940
Strike up the Band

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Preisser, William Tracy

Synopsis: Hey, gang! Let's put on a swell show and call it Strike Up the Band! Yes, it's the irrepressible Mickey Rooney, teamed up again with Judy Garland to show the grownups how to do things right. This time, Rooney wants to organize a high-school band. He hopes to enter a competition being held in Read More

1940
Young Tom Edison

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: This film follows the teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison (Mickey Rooney) as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1940
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, Rex Ingram, Lynne Carver

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney may have been born to play Mark Twain's legendary hellraiser Huck Finn, but 1939's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is so MGM-ized that Rooney seems to be sedated. Otherwise, this is a slick retelling of the Twain classic, with Huck escaping both the oppressive kindliness of the Read More

1939
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: This sixth installment in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series is among the best, thanks in great part to the breezy direction of "Woody" Van Dyke. In this outing, teenaged Andy (Mickey Rooney) develops a crush on his high-school drama teacher Rose Meredith (Helen Gilbert). Andy's dad Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone Read More

1939
Mickey the Great

Synopsis: Mickey the Great was a fast-buck 1938 concoction designed to capitalize on the popularity of Mickey Rooney. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the pre-teen Rooney had starred in a series of cheap short subjects based on Fontaine Fox's comic strip tough kid Mickey "Himself" McGuire. In true Our Gang Read More

1939
The Hardys Ride High

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs. The complacently middle-class family (middle class by Hollywood standards, that is!) inherits a large estate, compelling them to move in different social circles. Judge Read More

1939
Judge Hardy and Son

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of MGM's "Hardy Family" series, the kindly Judge (Lewis Stone) wrestles with two problems. He must rescue an elderly couple from eviction, and he must cope with his wife's (Fay Holden Read More

1939
Babes in Arms

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser

Synopsis: This fun-filled spin-off of the Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical by the same name, features Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as two young children of vaudevillian parents who aren't included in their parents travels, so they set out to produce a show of their own. Rooney's the driver here and he's up Read More

1939
You're Only Young Once

Actors: Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Frank Craven

Synopsis: The sequel to the first Andy Hardy picture, A Family Affair, this light comedy stars Mickey Rooney in the role that would bring him his greatest fame. Judge Hardy's role is no longer played by Lionel Barrymore, as in the original, but by Lewis Stone. Fay Holden is his loyal wife, and Cecilia Parker Read More

1938
Boys Town

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Addison Richards, Gene Reynolds

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to the real Father Flanagan out of gratitude. The priest's philosophy that no boy will grow up bad if given a chance in life culminates in his formation of Boys Town in Omaha Read More

1938
Love is a Headache

Actors: Franchot Tone, Mickey Rooney, Ralph Morgan, Jessie Ralph, Barnett Parker

Synopsis: Love may be a headache, but without it, how would MGM programmers like this one ever have been made? Franchot Tone is cast as Winchellesque radio commentator Peter Lawrence, who becomes the unexpected savior of fading Broadway favorite Carlotta Lee (Gladys George). Suffering from a string of bad Read More

1938
Lord Jeff

Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Charles Coburn, Herbert Mundin, Gale Sondergaard, Terry Kilburn, Peter Lawford

Synopsis: Director Sam Wood always seemed most comfortable with cozy family-oriented films like Lord Jeff. Freddie Bartholomew plays Geoffrey Braemer, a basically good kid who falls in with bad company. The orphaned Geoffrey is being used as part of jewel-theft scheme masterminded by his so-called aunt Read More

1938
Stablemates

Actors: Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, Arthur Hohl, Margaret Hamilton, Minor Watson

Synopsis: Stablemates is a typically treacly vehicle for Wallace Beery, who goes through his usual slobbery paces as an eternally inebriated ex-veterinarian named Tom Terry. Aspiring jockey Mickey (Mickey Rooney) idolizes Tom, who reciprocates by passing along horsemanship advice to the boy. The film's Read More

1938
Hold That Kiss

Actors: Maureen O'Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mickey Rooney, George Barbier, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Hold That Kiss is a cute story cutely played by the irresistably cute Maureen O'Sullivan. She plays working girl June Evans, who meets handsome Tommy Bradford (Dennis O'Keefe) at a society wedding. June assumes that Tommy is wealthy, and Tommy assumes same about June. Both keep up the artifice Read More

1938
Judge Hardy's Children

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Betty Ross Clarke

Synopsis: The Hardys are off to Washington DC in this third entry in MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has been appointed chairman of a special committee, and on occasion offers a subtly "liberal" political observation that the writers have slipped by MGM's ultra-conservative head man Louis B. Mayer Read More

1938
Love Finds Andy Hardy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden

Synopsis: The third of MGM's Andy Hardy series (discounting the "pilot" film, A Family Affair) stars, as ever, Mickey Rooney as the teenaged protagonist. Andy finds himself in dutch with girlfriend Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) when he agrees to escort his best friend's gal, Cynthia Potter (Lana Turner). Read More

1938
Out West with the Hardys

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: The title tells the story in this fourth of MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) takes his family to the Wide Open Spaces when a friend has legal difficulties over water rights. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) thinks he can pass as a westerner, which results in saddle sores for the Read More

1938
Slave Ship

Actors: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders

Synopsis: This period adventure drama was directed by Tay Garnett and adapted from a story by William Faulkner. The skipper of a slave trading vessel operating along the West African coast in 1860, Captain Jim Lovett (Warner Baxter) is troubled by his flesh-peddling trade. He's marrying the beautiful Nancy Read More

1937
Live, Love and Learn

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, Helen Vinson, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with Rosalind Russell, an heiress who's gone "slumming" in Greenwich Village. Russell becomes Montgomery's patroness as well as his wife, urging him to make his paintings more Read More

1937
Hoosier Schoolboy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Anne Nagel, Frank Shields, William Gould

Synopsis: Hoosier Schoolboy was the second 1937 release of the newly reorganized Monogram Pictures. Mickey Rooney (borrowed from MGM) has the title role in this easygoing rural drama. Young Rooney idolizes his father, a shell-shocked war veteran who has lately turned to drink. The boy must protect his dad Read More

1937
A Family Affair

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden, Mickey Rooney, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: Based on Aurania Rouveyrol's Broadway play Skidding, A Family Affair is a gentle comedy/drama centering around the Hardy family of Carvel (a small, idealized American town). Judge Hardy (Lionel Barrymore) hopes to be re-elected, but his campaign is put in jeopardy by his opposition of a wasteful Read More

1937
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Actors: Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Sophie Tucker, C. Aubrey Smith, Ronald Sinclair

Synopsis: Young Roger Calverton (Ronald Sinclair) and his uncle Sir Peter Calverton (Sir C. Aubrey Smith) bring their prize race-horse The Pookah to America, hoping to win a major purse and save their impoverished family estate. They cross paths with Tim Donahue (Mickey Rooney), one of the top young jockeys Read More

1937
Captains Courageous

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. Young Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is the working definition of a spoiled brat; the only child of a wealthy widowed businessman, Harvey Read More

1937
The Devil Is a Sissy

Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter, Peggy Conklin

Synopsis: The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s: Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew. Bartholomew is a wealthy young English boy attending a New York "magnet" school, whose students are drawn from all Read More

1936
Down the Stretch

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Patricia Ellis, Dennis Moore, Willie Best, Gordon Hart

Synopsis: In this drama, a teen is adopted from a reform school by a wealthy couple. They own horses and the boy becomes a jockey. His father was also a rider, but he got involved with crime. The young rider soon finds himself being framed by gamblers who are using his father's reputation against him. Read More

1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Actors: C. Aubrey Smith, Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of bringing the "classics" to the screen. Adapted by Hugh Walpole from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy is set in the late 19th century. After Read More

1936
The Healer

Synopsis: A pre-stardom Mickey Rooney earned top billing when this minor medical drama was re-released in 1939 as Little Pal (Rooney by then having become the nation's top box-office draw). Ralph Bellamy stars as Dr. Holden, aka "The Healer," a medical doctor operating a charity camp at a mineral spring in Read More

1936
The County Chairman

Actors: Will Rogers, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Louise Dresser, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: George Ade's turn-of-the-century stage success The County Chairman was retailored as a Will Rogers vehicle in 1935. Set in 1904, the film casts Rogers as Jim Hackler, political-party chairman of Tomahawk County, Wyoming. At rise, Hackler is running for county prosecutor against his old political Read More

1935
Ah, Wilderness!

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, Cecilia Parker, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad Eric Linden, whose knowledge of the ways of the world has come from French novels, is anxious to taste life to the fullest. Linden's father Lionel Barrymore sternly advises Read More

1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: James Cagney, Ian Hunter, Grant Mitchell, Olivia de Havilland, Mickey Rooney, Victor Jory, Ross Alexander, Joe E. Brown, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dick Powell

Synopsis: Max Reinhardt's legendary Hollywood Bowl production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was transferred to the screen by Warner Bros. in 1935. Like most of Shakespeare's comedies, the story contains several seemingly unrelated plotlines, all tied together by a single unifying event, in this Read More

1935
Reckless

Actors: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Rosalind Russell, Ted Healy, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible for the celebratedBombshell (itself a film à clef loosely based on Clara Bow) -- with the added appeal of William Powell. One can readily see the chemistry between the two Read More

1935
Riff Raff

Actors: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel, Joseph Calleia, Victor Kilian, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie (Jean Harlow). Their happiness is marred by Dutch's egomania, which results in the loss of his job and the alienation of his friends. Eventually he deserts Hattie, but she Read More

1935
Manhattan Melodrama

Actors: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered the years as one of MGM's finest examples of pure storytelling. The pageant-like story begins in 1904, when the excursion steamer "General Slocum" blows up and burns in the Read More

1934
The Lost Jungle

Actors: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Sid Saylor, Warner P. Richmond, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: The Lost Jungle is a feature-length version of the 12-episode Mascot serial of the same name. Legendary animal trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself, while Cecilia Parker portrays Beatty's screen sweetheart Ruth Robinson. When Ruth and her father are lost in the African jungle during a scientific Read More

1934
Blind Date

Actors: Ann Sothern, Neil Hamilton, Paul Kelly, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Charters

Synopsis: The all-purpose title Blind Date was trotted out in 1934 for this romantic trifle. Poor Kitty Taylor (Ann Sothern) just can't choose between wealthy Bob Hartwell (Neil Hamilton) and unwealthy mechanic Bill (Paul Kelly). When Kitty gets a modelling job thanks to Bob, she feels beholden to him, even Read More

1934
Beloved

Actors: John Boles, Gloria Stuart, Albert Conti, Dorothy Peterson, Morgan Farley

Synopsis: Apparently inspired by Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet, Beloved is a lush, lachrymose musical romance set in Vienna, South Carolina and New York City. John Boles stars as Austrian composer Carl Hausmann, whose musical career is very nearly cut short during the 1848 revolution. Carl is whisked off by Read More

1934
Chained

Actors: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained. Crawford plays Diane Lovering, the mistress of prominent Manhattan businessman Richard Field (Otto Kruger). Though she really isn't in love with him, she feels obligated to Read More

1934
Death on the Diamond

Actors: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a championship season. The arrival of hotshot pitcher Larry Kelly (Robert Young) coincides with an apparent plot to sabotage the Cards' chances of making it to the World Series. Read More

1934
Upper World

Actors: Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, Andy Devine, Dickie Moore

Synopsis: Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander Stream (Warren William) is neglected by his social-climbing wife Mary Astor. Quite unintentionally, through a chance encounter, he strikes up a reasonably chaste friendship Read More

1934
Hide-Out

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Patterson, Whitford Kane, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with Maureen O'Sullivan, who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by O'Sullivan's Read More

1934
Love Birds

Actors: George "Slim" Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Mickey Rooney, Frederick Burton, Emmett Vogan

Synopsis: Birdlike ZaSu Pitts and gangly Slim Summerville are together again in the Universal programmer Love Birds. The stars are cast respectively as schoolmarm Araminta Tootle and chicken farmer Henry Whipple, both of whom are sold the same abandoned ranch by the same fast-talking con artist. Neither Read More

1934
The Lost Jungle [Serial]

Actors: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Sid Saylor, Warner P. Richmond, Wheeler Oakman

1934
Half a Sinner

Actors: Sally Blane, Joel McCrea, Gay Seabrook

Synopsis: Half a Sinner is the first film version of the 1925 John E. Hymer-LeRoy Clemens play Alias the Deacon. Berton Churchill re-creates his stage role as an indigent cardsharp who poses as a deacon to fleece the countryside. While going about his business in a small town, he helps straighten out the Read More

1934
I Like It That Way

Actors: Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor, Marian Marsh, Shirley Grey, Lucille Gleason

Synopsis: In this musical, an insurance agent falls in love with a pretty girl. When the self-righteous agent discovers that she is a cabaret singer, he dumps her. Soon after, his sister quits her telephone operator's job to become a chorine. Songs include: "Blue Sky Avenue", "Let's Put Two and Two Read More

1934
The World Changes

Actors: Paul Muni, Mary Astor, Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great Depression. Most of the tale centers on a young Dakota farm boy whose grand schemes and ambition lead him on a cattle drive to Texas. From there he hooks up with the owner of a Read More

1933
Officer 13

Actors: Charles Delaney, Robert Ellis, Frances Rich, Joseph W. Girard, Jackie Searl

Synopsis: Police officer Tom Malone is the only honest man left who can salvage his crooked city after his partner is killed on his motorcycle by a wealthy playboy on a careless joyride. With criminals and crooked city officials at every turn, it will take courage, duty, and decency for Tom to make right Read More

1933
The Life of Jimmy Dolan

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a prizefighter goes on the lam after he engages in fisticuffs with a reporter and believes that he has killed him. He ends up at a crippled children's home. The film is also called The Kid's Last Fight. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
The Chief

Actors: Ed Wynn, Dorothy Mackaill, Charles "Chic" Sale, William "Stage" Boyd, Effie Ellsler

Synopsis: Somebody at MGM had the bright idea in 1933 to build a series of feature films around the talents of popular radio comedians. This bright idea fizzled after a handful of misbegotten epics starring the likes of Jack Pearl, aka Baron Munchausen, and Ed Wynn. The Wynn film was titled The Chief, a Read More

1933
The Big Chance

Actors: John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Mickey Rooney, Matthew Betz

Synopsis: Eagle Productions was another of those exotically named independent studios that came and went in the early 1930s. Eagle's The Big Chance stars John Darrow as an aspiring boxer. Ignoring the advice of trainer Matthew Betz, Darrow falls among bad company. Faithful Merna Kennedy saves Darrow from Read More

1933
Broadway to Hollywood

Actors: Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Russell Hardie, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville headliners of the 1880s whose fame is eclipsed by their son (played as a youth by Jackie Cooper, then as an adult by Russell Hardie). Morgan and Brady are reduced to bit Read More

1933
The Big Cage

Actors: Clyde Beatty, Anita Page, Andy Devine, Vince Barnett, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Renowned animal-trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself as a circus owner in this adventure that centers on an enthusiastic youth who idolizes Beatty. The story's highlight is a fight with the lions and tigers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
My Pal, the King

Actors: Tom Mix, Mickey Rooney, Paul Hurst, Noel Francis, Finis Barton

Synopsis: My Pal the King may not be the best of Tom Mix's talkie westerns, but it is the one that comes closest to the spirit of his silent films -- and it's the one that everyone seems to remember the most. The scene is a mythical European kingdom, where 10-year-old King Charles (Mickey Rooney) yawns his Read More

1932
High Speed

Actors: Wallace MacDonald, William Walling, Ward Bond

Synopsis: Buck Jones took a break from his cowboy duties to play a speedway driver in this highly implausible but fast-paced action melodrama from Columbia Pictures. Jones plays Bill Toomey, a mechanic promising a fatally injured driver (Pat O'Malley) to care for his crippled son Buddy (Mickey Rooney). Read More

1932
Fast Companions

Actors: Tom Brown, James Gleason, Maureen O'Sullivan, Andy Devine, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In this comedy, a shady jockey, Marty Black, teams up with Silk Henley to con the punters at little racetracks. Marty goes straight after he meets the feisty orphan, Midge. He then falls in love with Sally who runs a boarding house. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1932
The Beast of the City

Actors: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson

Synopsis: A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of gangsters and to shape up his own corrupt department in this brutal, gritty film noir. Jean Harlow plays a luminescent but ill-fated gun moll. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1932
Sin's Payday

Actors: Forrest Stanley, Harry Semels, Alfred Cross, Hal Price, Lloyd Whitlock

Synopsis: Defense attorney Forrest Stanley insists upon hiring himself out to gangsters, much to the dismay of his wife Dorothy Revier. She walks out on Stanley, whereupon he goes into a personal and professional slump. Our hero is given a new lease on life when he adopts orphan Mickey McGuire (later known Read More

1932
Emma

Actors: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy, John Miljan

Synopsis: Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper middle class family, keeping her wits about her as her employers suffer crisis after crisis. When the master of the house (Jean Hersholt), a prominent inventor, is widowed, he Read More

1932
Orchids and Ermine

Actors: Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee

Synopsis: One of the most accessible of the Colleen Moore silent vehicles, Orchids and Ermine also happens to be among Moore's best and most representative films. The star is cast as Pink Watson, whose craving for such luxuries as orchids and ermine lead her to take a job as a telephone receptionist in a Read More

1927

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