Hollywood – He was the biggest star the world, the box office champion from 1939 to 1941. “Wow, spanning two decades,” Bart Simpson said. Mickey Rooney lived long enough to work on silent films, be the biggest star in the world and do a voiceover on “The Simpsons.” Not bad for one lifetime. Mickey Rooney died of natural causes in his North Hollywood home on April 6th. He was 93.
Rooney was a actor who worked nearly his entire life in film, television and stage. His active career as a performer spanned 92 years, and he was one of the last few in history to have worked in the silent film era. His filmography lists over 200 roles, and he also appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway and several television series. He outlived and outperformed virtually all the classic movie stars from Hollywood’s golden era of the studio system from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Rooney was a actor who worked nearly his entire life in film, television and stage. His active career as a performer spanned 92 years, and he was one of the last few in history to have worked in the silent film era. His filmography lists over 200 roles, and he also appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway and several television series. He outlived and outperformed virtually all the classic movie stars from Hollywood’s golden era of the studio system from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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- 4/7/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
All right movie geeks, it’s true-life movie origin story time. I’m referring to a sort of pre-greatness biography flick. Of course, when the origin word is brought up you may first think of the comic book heroes that populate multiplexes during the warmer months (well, now a certain Asgardian is establishing a Fall beach head). Said characters usually begin their film or comic series with the story of what happened before they donned cape and mask. And Superman even has a long-running spin-off set in his own past, as Superboy. The movies have done the same thing with real folks many times over the years. There’s Young Mr. Lincoln and Young Tom Edison to Butch And Sundance: The Early Years to Nowhere Boy (about a pre-”fab four” John Lennon). The new film Kill Your Darlings takes us to the college years of famed beat poet Allan Ginsberg of later “Howl” fame.
- 11/27/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Successful film biographies often inspire ‘back-story’ sequels. Since many of these movies end at the conclusion of the subject’s life, producers will go back back and explore an earlier chapter of this remarkable individuals history. Hence, we’ve seen films like Young Mr. Lincoln and Young Tom Edison. Now many years after Amadeus, cinema explores the life of ten year old Mozart, but from a different viewpoint. As the title suggests Mozart’S Sister is indeed this story told through the eyes of Wolfgang’s older sister (by five years). The movie is a fresh look at the formative years of this musical genius, but it also tells the story of an older sibling possessed of incredible talent who had no chance to shine in her brother’s long shadow.
Like many musician stories we first encounter the artists between ‘gigs’ and on the road. The Mozart family (father,...
Like many musician stories we first encounter the artists between ‘gigs’ and on the road. The Mozart family (father,...
- 9/30/2011
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The other day I was thinking the concept of a movie prequel was a fairly new notion. I suppose it was George Lucas who really promoted that idea with his first trilogy in 1999 with Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. But as I thought about it, movie prequels have been around for a while. Back in the 30′s and 40′s they were made to delve into the backgrounds of historical figures as in Young Tom Edison and Young Mr. Lincoln. In the early 70′s we had Butch And Sundance : The Early Years. The 80′s saw Young Sherlock Holmes, and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom ( which technically is a prequel to Raiders Of The Lost Ark as it is set a couple of years earlier ). The post Star Wars first trilogy prequels have been used as a way to restart or reboot an aging franchise. In that way...
- 6/3/2011
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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