{"id":524,"date":"2014-04-07T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/04\/07\/looking-back-on-ten-decades-of-mickey-rooney\/"},"modified":"2014-04-07T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T02:09:00","slug":"looking-back-on-ten-decades-of-mickey-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/04\/07\/looking-back-on-ten-decades-of-mickey-rooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on ten decades of Mickey Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UMRfN_dbDL4\/U0NaLbJ4F5I\/AAAAAAAABDI\/A4Fb1WrV30Q\/s1600\/mickey-rooney-300.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UMRfN_dbDL4\/U0NaLbJ4F5I\/AAAAAAAABDI\/A4Fb1WrV30Q\/s1600\/mickey-rooney-300.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mickey Rooney&#8217;s death this week passed by surprisingly unheralded. For a man once considered one of the biggest movie stars in the world, this is not a judgment on the quality of his work. Instead, it reflects how shockingly long ago Mickey Rooney was in his heyday and for how long after he continued his craft.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney began his acting career in the <b>1920s<\/b> and achieved international fame in the dozens of movies in which he appeared across the 1930s and 1940s. He was a song-and-dance man who acted in tandem with other famous faces, especially and notably his collaboration with Judy Garland. Even after his career highs, Rooney regularly star in films through the end of his life. To today&#8217;s viewers, he is perhaps best known for his appearance in <i>Night at the Museum<\/i> (at age 85!) and his unfortunate, much-criticized turn as Mr. Yunioshi in <i>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Rooney may not hold the same iconic status of the other superstars of his era, but make no mistake: he was a legend of his time. We have a number of his most successful films in our collection, including a number of documentaries and compilations about the era and his work.<\/p>\n<p>Quicksand \u2013 HU DVD 203<br \/>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s \u2013 HU DVD 501*<br \/>National Velvet \u2013 HU DVD 5483<br \/>That&#8217;s Entertainment! \u2013 HU DVD 5671<br \/>That&#8217;s Entertainment, Part II \u2013 HU DVD 5672<br \/>That&#8217;s Entertainment! III \u2013 HU DVD 5673<br \/>Golden Age of Television. Disc 3 \u2013 HU DVD 7093<br \/>Babe: Pig in the City \u2013 HU DVD 7222<br \/>Babes in Arms \u2013 HU DVD 7871<br \/>Strike Up the Band \u2013 HU DVD 7872<br \/>Babes on Broadway \u2013 HU DVD 7873<br \/>Girl Crazy \u2013 HU DVD 7874<br \/>Mickey Rooney &amp; Judy Garland Collection, Bonus Disc \u2013 HU DVD 7875<br \/>Beach Blanket Bingo \u2013 HU DVD 10337<br \/>Beast of the City \u2013 HU DVD 11071<br \/>When the World Breaks \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/proxyau.wrlc.org\/login?url=http:\/\/digital.films.com\/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=8604&amp;xtid=42290\">Streaming video<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Rooney&#8217;s death this week passed by surprisingly unheralded. For a man once considered one of the biggest movie stars in the world, this is not a judgment on the quality of his work. Instead, it reflects how shockingly long ago Mickey Rooney was in his heyday and for how long after he continued his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-related-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}