Mickey Rooney's approach to life was simple: "Let's put on a show!" He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage and in his extravagant personal life. A superstar in his ...

Leap Day, 1940. The city: Los Angeles. The place: the Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub, where Hollywood’s biggest names were gathered for the 12th annual Academy Awards ceremony. Among the ...

Toward the end of the buoyant opening number of 2011’s “The Muppets,” Mickey Rooney pops into frame, an old-school newsboy cap turned backward atop his head and a time-erasing grin plastered across ...

On March 30, 250 lots of Rooney’s personal items and film memorabilia will be up for bids in an estate sale. The actor, known for starring in the “Andy Hardy” films, was one of Hollywood’s ...

Pint-sized, precocious, impish, irrepressible — perhaps hardy is the most-suitable adjective for Rooney, a perennial comeback artist whose early blockbuster success as the vexing but wholesome Andy ...

LOS ANGELES -- Mickey Rooney's approach to life was simple: "Let's put on a show!" He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage and in his extravagant personal life. A ...

My typically insane days usually end with some hot tea, maybe some pistachios or white cheddar popcorn, and a dose of late night television. For me, there is nothing more relaxing than the old black ...

LOS ANGELES — By age 93, Mickey Rooney had appeared in more than 300 films. From his beginnings as a child star to his final role in “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb” — filmed six weeks before ...

On March 30, 250 lots of Rooney’s personal items and film memorabilia will be up for bids in an estate sale. The actor, known for starring in the “Andy Hardy” films, was one of Hollywood’s ...