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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mickey Rooney and his wife in 2003. Rooney portrayed Whitey Marsh in the 1938 film "Boys Town," which also featured Spencer Tracy as Boys Town founder Father Flanagan. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mickey Rooney ...

A small man physically, Rooney was prodigious in talent, scope, ambition and appetite. He sang and danced, played roles both serious and silly, wrote memoirs, a novel, movie scripts and plays and ...

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 ...

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 ...