Mickey Rooney had a topper story,” he said. “So we started calling him ‘Topper.’ “ “We would talk about something and John would go, ‘I’m drumming with the Beach Boys’ and Mickey ...

Mickey Rooney's stepson Chris Aber sets out a series of explosive claims of life with the Hollywood icon who died earlier this month He claims Rooney was violent to Jan - his wife of 36 years ...

He was an iconic presence in movies, the poster boy for American youth in the idyllic small-town 1930s. Yet, by World War II, Mickey Rooney had become frozen in time. A perpetual teenager in an ...

But Clarence Brown, assured he could obtain Mickey Rooney to handle the lead ... shines brilliantly as the boy of Saroyan’s tale. 1943: Best Original Story.