Mickey Rooney

There have been several biographies of Mickey Rooney, including two autobiographies that focus primarily on his tumultuous personal life. In this volume equal attention is finally paid to the staggering body of work this man created in a career that began in vaudeville in the 1920s and stretched across the century to the CGI hit, Night at the Museum released in 2015.

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Mickey Rooney was one of Hollywood's most prolific and long-lived stars, with film credits spanning the silent and CGI eras. Despite his Broadway acclaim and gift for character acting, he is remembered mainly for his comedies and tumultuous personal life. Most biographies have focused on these, neglecting his long and varied career, which was marked by sharp declines and meteoric comebacks. Drawing on interviews with coworkers, this book reveals Rooney as a skilled actor who settled for less in an industry that relegated him to lesser roles, and built a body of work admired by audiences and actors alike.