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Mickey Rooney: United States
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In 1994 and 1998, he did a successful tour of his One Man Show "Mickey Rooney in Mickey Rooney" with his wife Jan in Australia and New Zealand. In 1995, he revived "Sugar Babies" with Juliette Prowse at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Later that year he was in Toronto, Canada doing "Crazy For You", a stage revival of his 1943 film "Girl Crazy". In 1996 he went to Jordan for the film "Sinbad and the Dark Knights" with Richard Greico and to Moab, Utah for "Animals" with John Tutturro and Tim Roth. 1997 brought him back to Australia to film the sequel to the hit film "Babe" with director George Miller, "Babe, Pig in The City". Still going strong, for the last two years, Mickey has been touring the United States and Canada as "The Wizard" and "Professor Marvel", in Madison Square Gardens' highly acclaimed stage production of "The Wizard of Oz.
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Starting with Mickey McGuire in 1927, Mickey quickly rose to the top of his profession after Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM Studios, signed him to a contract. His first MGM film was Manhattan Melodrama and by 1939, Mickey was the top box office actor in the United States.
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Physically short, but full of energy and vitality, Rooney was the #1 box office actor in the United States from 1939-41. He entered the Army for 21 months in 1944 to serve with a unit of artists providing field entertainment.
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His big break came in 1927 when he was cast for "Mickey 'Himself' McGuire," a series based on a comic strip. Short in stature, but never in confidence, Mickey was the number one box office actor in the United States from 1939-41. He became known for his work on films such as: A Midsummer Nights Dream, Boys Town, Babes In Arms and the hit Andy Hardy series.
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Mickey’s big break came in 1927, when he was cast for “Mickey ‘Himself’ McGuire,” a series based on a comic strip. Short in stature, but never in confidence, Mickey was the number one box office actor in the United States from 1939-1941. He became known for his work on films such as: “A Midsummer Nights Dream,” “Boys Town,” “Babes In Arms” and the hit Andy Hardy series.
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