Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leap Day, 1940. The city: Los Angeles. The place: the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove nightclub, where Hollywood's biggest names ...

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. William Powell and Myrna Loy. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Doris Day and Rock Hudson. These are all popular movie couples ...

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland were one of the most attractive young pairs in Hollywood in the pre-World War II years. These adolescent performers were great friends offscreen as well as on, and their ...

In 1983, the Academy gave Rooney an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. Despite the recognition, Rooney felt cheated by Hollywood, bitter that he was never able to capitalize on his early success ...