Tag: Ann Miller

Remember the excitement you all felt when you decided that, gosh darn it, we’re going to convert this run-down junk heap into a snazzy theatre and put on a show that will knock ’em dead? Well, that kind of enthusiasm no doubt predates Mickey Rooney by a few millennia, but he sure did come to personify it in all those MGM movies with Judy Garland. And what better representative of the eternal optimism of show business than Rooney? At 93, he was not only one of the last of the vaudevillians—having joined his parents’ act at the age of 17 months—but was even a veteran of the silent film era. Just a couple of weeks ago (!!) a print was found of Mickey’s Circus from 1927, in which he played the ringmaster of a kids’ circus.