By Bruce Handy May 16, 2025 12:28pm Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in 'Andy Hardy Meets Debutante' (1938) Courtesy Everett Collection ...

At the peak of his fame, Rooney met President Roosevelt in the White House and auto magnate Henry Ford in Dearborn, Mich. And soon, his personal life became every bit as gaudy as his film roles ...

Girl Crazy (M.G.M.) shows Judy Garland all buoyed up by Mickey Rooney. There are also Tommy Dorsey's band, which sets the pace for some stupefying dance routines, a comic girl (Nancy Walker) who ...

Garland, who was born Frances Ethel Gumm, spent her childhood years onstage in a vaudeville family act. She shot to fame acting opposite Mickey Rooney in a string of beloved Hollywood musicals ...

But what Lorna’s book and her father Sid Luft’s memoir, Judy and I: My Life With Judy Garland, reveal is the magnetic pull of the woman behind the tragic star: a tiny, high-strung dynamo who ...

How Mickey Rooney met Judy Garland Rooney met Judy Garland very early on in his career, the two first working together in the musical Babes in Arms (1939), which earned Rooney his first-ever Oscar ...

The birthplace of Judy Garland is at 2727 S. Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids. Wyatt Buckner / Duluth Media Group "Nobody wanted to work with us after that. Our credibility was gone," said Heitz.

(Her father died in 1935 after a sudden bout of meningitis.) Photos show co-star and friend Mickey Rooney visiting the house and also Garland’s first husband, bandleader David Rose.

Judy Garland Said She and Mickey Rooney Took So Many Drugs They ‘Were Hanging From the Ceiling’ Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney worked on many films together in their heyday.

JUDY GARLAND revealed the horrifying truth behind the Hollywood smiles in secret recordings that described the hell she went through alongside Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor.