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The Muppets (2011)

The Muppets is a 2011 American musical comedy film directed by James Bobin and written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, and the seventh theatrical film featuring the Muppets. The film stars Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, and Rashida Jones, as well as Muppets performers Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, David Rudman, Mat...

Starring: E. G. DailyLionel BarrymoreForrest StanleyC. Aubrey SmithWallace BeerySlim SummervilleLewis StoneHenry HullZaSu PittsWarner Baxter

Night at the Museum (2006)

Night at the Museum is a 2006 fantasy comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc. The film had an ensemble cast of Ben Stiller in the lead role, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, and Robin Wi...

Starring: E. G. DailyKathryn GraysonBuck JonesWarner BaxterGeorge BancroftDorothy RevierArthur HohlBrian DonlevyFredric MarchGroucho Marx

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Babe: Pig in the City is a 1998 comedy-drama adventure film. It is the sequel/epilogue to the 1995 film Babe and the second and final chapter of the Babe film series. It is co-written, produced and directed by George Miller, who co-wrote and produced the original film. Most of the actors from the first film reprised their respective roles, includin...

Starring: E. G. DailyEthel MermanJean HarlowMaureen O'Sullivan

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1992)

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker is a 1991 American science fiction horror film directed by Martin Kitrosser and stars Mickey Rooney, who had previously condemned the original film. It is the fifth film in the Silent Night, Deadly Night film series.

Starring: E. G. Daily

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991)

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker is a 1991 American science fiction horror film directed by Martin Kitrosser and stars Mickey Rooney, who had previously condemned the original film. It is the fifth film in the Silent Night, Deadly Night film series.

Starring: E. G. DailySpencer TracyJackie CooperPat O'Brien

Lightning, the White Stallion (1986)

Lightning, the White Stallion is a 1986 American drama film directed by William A. Levey and written by Harry Alan Towers. The film stars Mickey Rooney, Susan George, Isabel García Lorca, Billy Wesley, Martin Charles Warner and Françoise Pascal. The film was released in August 1986, by Cannon Film Distributors.

Starring: E. G. Daily

The Fox and the Hound (1981)

The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 American animated buddy drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Daniel P. Mannix. The 24th Disney animated feature film, the film tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a red fox named Tod and a hound dog named Copper. The two friends struggle...

Starring: E. G. DailyCecilia ParkerNatalie Moorhead

The Black Stallion (1979)

The Black Stallion is a 1979 American adventure film based on the 1941 classic children's novel of the same name by Walter Farley. The film starts in 1946, five years after the book was published. It tells the story of Alec Ramsey, a boy who is shipwrecked on a deserted island with a wild Arabian stallion that he befriends. After being rescued, the...

Starring: E. G. DailyMickey RooneyFranchot ToneFred Astaire

The Magic of Lassie (1978)

The Magic of Lassie is a 1978 American musical drama film directed by Don Chaffey, and starring Lassie, James Stewart, Stephanie Zimbalist, Pernell Roberts and Michael Sharrett, with cameo appearances by Mickey Rooney and Alice Faye. Stewart appeared in one of only three musical film roles that he played: the first was Born to Dance (1936) in which...

Starring: E. G. DailyBonita GranvilleWilliam Frawley

The Domino Principle (1977)

The Domino Principle is a 1977 neo-noir thriller film starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney and Richard Widmark. The film is based on the novel of the same name and was adapted for the screen by its author Adam Kennedy. It was directed and produced by Stanley Kramer.

Starring: E. G. DailyCharles WinningerFay BainterOlivia de HavillandCedric HardwickeEdmund Gwenn

Pete's Dragon (1977)

Pete's Dragon is a 1977 American musical fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey, produced by Jerome Courtland and Ron Miller, and written by Malcolm Marmorstein. Based on the unpublished short story "Pete's Dragon and the USA " by Seton I. Miller and S. S. Field, the film stars Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Jeff Co...

Starring: E. G. DailyIan HunterSpring ByingtonFreddie Bartholomew

The Intruder (1975)

The Intruder is a 1975 American horror film written and directed by Chris Robinson and starring Mickey Rooney, Ted Cassidy, and Yvonne De Carlo. Its plot follows a group of people who are stalked on an island by a killer while searching for gold.

Starring: E. G. DailyDavid NivenBuddy Ebsen

That's Entertainment! (1974)

That's Entertainment! is a 1974 American compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate the studio's 50th anniversary. The success of the retrospective prompted a 1976 sequel, the related 1985 film That's Dancing!, and a third installment in 1994.

Starring: Willie BestE. G. DailyAnthony QuinnBonita GranvilleJudy GarlandThomas MitchellMilton BerleVoices ofBob Hope

Thunder County (1974)

Starring: E. G. DailyDennis O'KeefeFay Holden

The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 stop motion animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name. It is narrated by Shirley Booth and starring the voices of Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, and George S. Irving. It was originally broadcast on December 10, 1...

Starring: E. G. DailyWilliam Holdenvoices of

The Comic (1969)

The Comic is a 1969 American Pathécolor comedy-drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Carl Reiner. It stars Dick Van Dyke as Billy Bright, Michele Lee as Bright's love interest, and Reiner himself and Mickey Rooney as Bright's friends and work colleagues. Reiner wrote the screenplay with Aaron Ruben; it was inspired by the end of silen...

Starring: E. G. DailyKathryn GraysonDonna Reed

The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)

The Extraordinary Seaman is a 1969 American comedy war film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda, Mickey Rooney, and Jack Carter. Apart from his participation in the documentaries That's Entertainment! (1974), and That's Entertainment! III (1994), the film is notable for being the last film Mickey Rooney ...

Starring: E. G. DailyJackie GleasonGene KellyPeggy RyanJune Allyson

Skidoo (1968)

Skidoo is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip Law, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney and Groucho Marx playing "God". It was written by Doran William Cannon and released by ...

Starring: Gloria DeHavenE. G. DailyPearl BaileyAnn BlythFrank Sinatra

Ambush Bay (1966)

Ambush Bay is a 1966 American war film directed by Ron Winston and starring Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney and James Mitchum. It was filmed on location in the Philippines.

Starring: E. G. DailyShelley WintersPerry Como

The Secret Invasion (1964)

The Secret Invasion is a 1964 American war film directed by Roger Corman. It stars Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes, Henry Silva, Mia Massini, and William Campbell. Appearing three years before The Dirty Dozen (1967), the film features a similar World War II mission where convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely ...

Starring: E. G. DailyDick HaymesYvonne De Carlo

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose and Tania Rose. The film, starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast of comedians, is about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. It premiered on N...

Starring: Steve CochranBeverly TylerE. G. DailyMel TorméRichard WidmarkColeen Gray

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

Requiem for a Heavyweight is a 1962 American film directed by Ralph Nelson based on the television play of the same name with Anthony Quinn in the role originated by Jack Palance, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney in the parts portrayed on television by Keenan Wynn and his father Ed Wynn, and social worker Grace Miller was portrayed by Julie Harris.

Starring: E. G. DailyJanet LeighPearl BaileyWendell Corey

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer. It was theatrically released by Paramount Pi...

Starring: E. G. DailyTom EwellPatricia NealSally ForrestHugh O'BrianDebbie Reynolds

Everything's Ducky (1961)

Everything's Ducky is a 1961 comedy film directed by Don Taylor and written by Benedict Freedman and John Fenton Murray. The film stars Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jackie Cooper, Joanie Sommers, Roland Winters and Elizabeth MacRae. The film was released on December 20, 1961, by Columbia Pictures.

Starring: Stewart GrangerE. G. DailyGrace Kelly

Platinum High School (1960)

Platinum High School is a 1960 American crime drama romance film directed by Charles Haas and starring Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore and Dan Duryea. It was based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Irving Shulman.

Starring: E. G. DailyMamie Van Doren

The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)

The Private Lives of Adam and Eve is a 1960 Spectacolor comedy film starring Mickey Rooney, and Mamie Van Doren. It is an American B-movie in which the plot revolves around a modern couple who dream that they are Adam and Eve. Others of their acquaintance assume the roles of various characters from the Book of Genesis during the fantasy sequences.

Starring: E. G. DailyCarolyn JonesKevin McCarthyElaine StewartRobert StraussBuddy Hackett

The Big Operator (1959)

The Big Operator is a black and white 1959 American crime/drama film starring Mickey Rooney as a corrupt union boss, with Steve Cochran, Mel Torme and Mamie Van Doren as co-stars. The film is a remake of Joe Smith, American (1942) with labor union thugs replacing Axis spies.

Starring: E. G. DailyDianne FosterKevin McCarthy

The Last Mile (1959)

The Last Mile is a 1959 American drama film directed by Howard W. Koch starring Mickey Rooney. The film is a remake of a 1932 film of the same name starring Preston Foster.

Starring: E. G. Daily

Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)

Andy Hardy Comes Home is a 1958 comedy film directed by Howard W. Koch. It is the 16th and final film in the Andy Hardy series, with Mickey Rooney reprising his signature role. It was produced 12 years after the previous Hardy film, and was an attempt to revive what had once been an enormously popular film series. Because the film fell short of box...

Starring: E. G. DailyCarol ChanningKathryn Grant

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed is a 1958 American comedy film directed by Henry Levin and written by Sydney Boehm. The film stars Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney, Mickey Shaughnessy, Dina Merrill, Madge Kennedy and Frances Bavier. The film was released on December 1, 1958, by 20th Century Fox.

Starring: E. G. DailyFay SpainDina Merrill

Baby Face Nelson (1957)

Baby Face Nelson is a 1957 film noir crime film based on the real-life 1930s gangster, directed by Don Siegel, co-written by Daniel Mainwaring—who also wrote the screenplay for Siegel's 1956 sci-fi thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers—and starring Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon as Dillinger, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam,...

Starring: E. G. DailyDick YorkGeorge Peppard

Operation Mad Ball (1957)

Operation Mad Ball is a 1957 military comedy from Columbia Pictures, produced by Jed Harris, directed by Richard Quine, that stars Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant, Arthur O'Connell, and Mickey Rooney. The screenplay is by Blake Edwards, Jed Harris, and Arthur Carter, based on an unproduced play by Carter.

Starring: E. G. DailyPaul AnkaMartin BalsamRaf ValloneJack Carter

The Bold and the Brave (1956)

The Bold and the Brave is a 1956 American World War II film written by Robert Lewin in his first screenplay based on some of his Italian Campaign experiences. It was directed by Lewis R. Foster and stars Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, and Don Taylor. The film was produced by Filmmakers Production Organization and released by RKO. The title song was ...

Starring: E. G. DailyDick Van Dyke

Magnificent Roughnecks (1956)

Magnificent Roughnecks is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Sherman A. Rose and written by Stephen Kandel. The film stars Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney, Nancy Gates, Jeff Donnell, Myron Healey and Willis Bouchey. The film was released on July 22, 1956, by Allied Artists Pictures.

Starring: E. G. DailyEdward AlbertCandice Bergen

The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955)

The Twinkle in God's Eye is a 1955 American Western film directed by George Blair and written by P.J. Wolfson. The film stars Mickey Rooney, Coleen Gray, Hugh O'Brian, Joey Forman, Don "Red" Barry and Mike Connors. The film was released on October 13, 1955, by Republic Pictures.

Starring: E. G. DailyAlan Arkin

The Atomic Kid (1954)

The Atomic Kid is a 1954 American black-and-white science fiction comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson and starring Mickey Rooney and Robert Strauss. It was distributed by Republic Pictures and produced by Maurice Duke and Mickey Rooney.

Starring: E. G. DailyClint HowardMichele Lee

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)

The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 American war film about the Korean War and stars William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, and Robert Strauss. The film, which was directed by Mark Robson, was produced by Paramount Pictures. Dennis Weaver and Earl Holliman make early screen appearances in the film.

Starring: John Phillip LawE. G. DailyLiza MinnelliTed Cassidy

Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

Drive a Crooked Road is a 1954 American crime film noir directed by Richard Quine and starring Mickey Rooney and Dianne Foster. The drama's screenplay was adapted by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine from "The Wheel Man", a story by Canadian James Benson Nablo.

Starring: E. G. DailyTeri GarrPernell Roberts

All Ashore (1953)

All Ashore is a 1953 American comedy musical film directed by Richard Quine and starring Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan and Ray McDonald.

Starring: E. G. DailyJames CromwellSean MarshallHelen Reddy

Off Limits (1953)

Off Limits is a 1953 comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell. Hope plays a manager who enlists in the army to keep an eye on his boxer, who has been drafted. The picture was written by Hal Kanter and Jack Sher, and was released in the UK as Military Policemen, as the characters played by Hope...

Starring: E. G. DailyHoyt AxtonJim Henson

A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)

A Slight Case of Larceny is a 1953 comedy film directed by Don Weis, written by Jerry Davis, and starring Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart, Marilyn Erskine, Douglas Fowley and Robert Burton. It was released on June 5, 1953, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Starring: E. G. DailyJerry Nelson

Sound Off (1952)

Sound Off is a 1952 comedy film featuring several songs, filmed in SuperCinecolor for Columbia Pictures and starring Mickey Rooney. The film was shot in August 1951.

Starring: E. G. Daily

My Outlaw Brother (1951)

My Outlaw Brother is a 1951 American Western film directed by Elliott Nugent, produced by Benedict Bogeaus, and starring Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston and Robert Stack. Filmed in Mexico and released through Eagle-Lion Classics, the picture is based on the book South of the Rio Grande by Max Brand and is sometimes referred to as My Br...

Starring: E. G. DailyJudd Hirsch

The Strip (1951)

The Strip is a 1951 American crime film noir directed by László Kardos and starring Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest and William Demarest. Much of the picture was shot on location in and around the Sunset Strip. Interiors were shot at the popular nightclubs Mocambo and Ciro's and at the restaurants Little Hungary and Stripps. A large part of the film's...

Starring: E. G. DailyWhoopi Goldberg

The Fireball (1950)

The Fireball is a 1950 American drama film starring Mickey Rooney and Pat O'Brien, and directed by Tay Garnett. The cast also includes Beverly Tyler and the eighth screen appearance of Marilyn Monroe.

Starring: Bill CobbsE. G. DailyNeith Hunter

He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950)

He's a Cockeyed Wonder is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Peter Godfrey and written by Jack Henley. The film stars Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, William Demarest, Charles Arnt, Ross Ford and Ned Glass. The film was released on December 2, 1950, by Columbia Pictures.

Starring: E. G. DailyCarla Gugino

Quicksand (1950)

Quicksand is a 1950 American film noir that stars Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre and portrays a garage mechanic's descent into crime. It was directed by Irving Pichel shortly before he was included in the Hollywood blacklist. The film provided Rooney with an opportunity to play against type, performing in a role starkly different from his earlier ro...

Starring: E. G. DailyPaul Rudd

The Big Wheel (1949)

The Big Wheel is a 1949 American drama sport film directed by Edward Ludwig starring Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Hatcher and Michael O'Shea. It includes the final screen appearance of Hattie McDaniel.

Starring: E. G. DailyOwen Wilson

Summer Holiday (1948)

Summer Holiday is a 1948 American musical-comedy film, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Mickey Rooney and Gloria DeHaven. The picture is based on the play Ah, Wilderness! (1933) by Eugene O'Neill, which had been filmed under that name by MGM in 1935 with Rooney in a much smaller role, as the younger brother. Though completed in October 194...

Starring: E. G. DailyPatrick Gallagher

Words and Music (1948)

Words and Music is a 1948 American biographical musical film loosely based on the creative partnership of the composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The film stars Mickey Rooney as Hart and Tom Drake as Rodgers, along with Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, Ann Sothern and numerous musical stars. It was the second in a series of MGM biopics ab...

Starring: E. G. DailyJudy GarlandTom MixLionel BarrymoreForrest StanleyC. Aubrey Smith

Killer McCoy (1947)

Killer McCoy is a 1947 American drama film about a boxer starring Mickey Rooney. It is a remake of The Crowd Roars (1938). The picture was directed by Roy Rowland with a supporting cast featuring Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn, Tom Tully, and Sam Levene.

Starring: Wallace BeeryE. G. DailySlim Summerville

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy is a 1946 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Willis Goldbeck and starring Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyHenry Hull

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble is a 1944 romantic comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. It is the fourteenth link starring Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy. In the film, Andy goes to college, but soon gets in trouble with some pretty co-eds.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyCarol Channing

National Velvet (1944)

National Velvet is a 1944 American Technicolor sports film directed by Clarence Brown and based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury, Anne Revere, Reginald Owen, and an adolescent Elizabeth Taylor.

Starring: E. G. DailyMilton Berle

Girl Crazy (1943)

Girl Crazy is a 1943 American musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Produced by the Freed Unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the stage musical Girl Crazy – which was written by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin. It was the last of Garland and Rooney's nine movies as co-stars, the ...

Starring: E. G. DailyCharles Coburn

The Human Comedy (1943)

The Human Comedy is a 1943 American comedy-drama film directed by Clarence Brown. It began as a screenplay by William Saroyan, who was expected to direct. After Saroyan was removed from the project, he wrote the novel of the same name and published it just before the film was released. Howard Estabrook was brought in to reduce the run time to two h...

Starring: E. G. Daily

Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)

Andy Hardy's Double Life is a 1942 comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. It was the thirteenth installment of MGM's enormously popular Andy Hardy film series starring Mickey Rooney as the title character.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyCarol Channing

The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)

The Courtship of Andy Hardy is a 1942 film, part of the Andy Hardy series. It gave an early role to Donna Reed although Mickey Rooney had lobbied for his then-wife Ava Gardner to have her part. Within a few months of the film's release, she filed for divorce.

Starring: Donna ReedJudith AllenE. G. DailyWarner Baxter

A Yank at Eton (1942)

A Yank at Eton is an American comedy-drama film directed by Norman Taurog for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter, and Peter Lawford. Released in 1942, it is a kind of junior thematic sequel to MGM's British-made film A Yank at Oxford (1938). Edmund Gwenn, who played a school official in the earlier film, has a similar role i...

Starring: E. G. DailyGeorge BancroftDorothy Revier

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary is a 1941 American comedy film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Kathryn Grayson, Ann Rutherford and Fay Holden. It was the tenth of the 16-film Andy Hardy series. Marian Hardy does not appear in this film.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyBrian Donlevy

Babes on Broadway (1941)

Babes on Broadway is a 1941 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garland's big solo numbers. The film, which features Fay Bainter and Virginia Weidler, was the third in the "Backyard Musical" series about kids who put on their own show, following Babes in Arms...

Starring: E. G. DailyFranchot ToneCharles Coburn

Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)

Life Begins for Andy Hardy is a 1941 American comedy film and the 11th installment of the 16 popular Andy Hardy movies. Directed by George B. Seitz, Life Begins for Andy Hardy was also the last Andy Hardy movie to feature Judy Garland.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyCarol Channing

Men of Boys Town (1941)

Men of Boys Town is a 1941 American drama film directed by Norman Taurog and written by James Kevin McGuinness. It is a sequel to the 1938 film Boys Town. The film stars Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, Larry Nunn, Darryl Hickman and Henry O'Neill. The film was released on April 11, 1941, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Starring: Beverly TylerE. G. Daily

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Judy Garland. It is the ninth of the Andy Hardy full-length film series.

Starring: Donna ReedJudith AllenE. G. Daily

Strike Up the Band (1940)

Strike Up the Band is a 1940 American musical film produced by the Arthur Freed unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Busby Berkeley and stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, in the second of a series of musicals they co-starred in, after Babes in Arms, all directed by Berkeley. The story written for the 1927 stage musical Strike Up...

Starring: Ralph BellamyE. G. DailyCharles CoburnNatalie Moorhead

Young Tom Edison (1940)

Young Tom Edison is a 1940 biographical film about the early life of inventor Thomas Edison directed by Norman Taurog and starring Mickey Rooney. The film was the first of a complementary pair of Edison biopics that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released in 1940. Edison, the Man, starring Spencer Tracy, followed two months later, completing the two-part stor...

Starring: Guy KibbeeE. G. DailyFranchot Tone

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1884 novel of the same name, starring Mickey Rooney in the title role. The supporting cast features Walter Connolly, William Frawley and Rex Ingram. It was remade by MGM in 1960. A musical version was released in 1974.

Starring: E. G. DailyPatricia EllisWalter Connolly

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever is a 1939 American romantic comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The plot is about Andy Hardy having a crush on his high school drama teacher, Miss Rose Meredith. It is the seventh of sixteen Andy Hardy films starring Mickey Rooney.

Starring: Donna ReedJudith AllenE. G. DailyCarol Channing

Babes in Arms (1939)

Babes in Arms is the 1939 American film version of the 1937 coming-of-age Broadway musical of the same title. Directed by Busby Berkeley, it stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, and features Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes, and Betty Jaynes. It was Garland and Rooney's second film together as lead characters after their e...

Starring: Charles WinningerE. G. DailyFay BainterCharles Coburn

The Hardys Ride High (1939)

The Hardys Ride High (1939) is the sixth film of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Andy Hardy series.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyCarol Channing

Judge Hardy and Son (1939)

Judge Hardy and Son (1939) is the 8th film, of 16, in the Andy Hardy series. It is the last MGM film in the 1930s.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyCarol Channing

Boys Town (1938)

Boys Town is a 1938 biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of underprivileged boys in a home/educational complex that he founded and named "Boys Town" in Nebraska. It stars Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J. Flanagan, and Mickey Rooney with Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, and Gene Reynolds.

Starring: Spring ByingtonBeverly TylerE. G. Daily

Hold That Kiss (1938)

Hold That Kiss (1938) is a romantic comedy film starring Maureen O'Sullivan and Dennis O'Keefe.

Starring: Freddie BartholomewE. G. DailyWillie Best

Judge Hardy's Children (1938)

Judge Hardy's Children is a 1938 film in the Andy Hardy series. The plot involves the Hardys visiting Washington, DC, in this third entry in MGM's "Hardy Family" series.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyCarol Channing

Lord Jeff (1938)

Lord Jeff is a 1938 MGM film, set in England, starring Freddie Bartholomew as a spoiled orphan who has gotten mixed up with some crooks, but gets set straight by a stint in a mercantile marine vocational school for orphaned boys.

Starring: E. G. DailyBonita GranvilleJudy Garland

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

Love Finds Andy Hardy is a 1938 American romantic comedy film that tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time. It stars Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard and Gene Reynolds.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyCharles Coburn

Love Is a Headache (1938)

Love Is a Headache is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and written by Marion Parsonnet, Harry Ruskin and William R. Lipman. The film stars Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Ted Healy, Mickey Rooney, Frank Jenks and Ralph Morgan. The film was released on January 14, 1938, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Starring: and his OrchestraE. G. DailyKathryn Grayson

Out West with the Hardys (1938)

Out West with the Hardys is a 1938 American comedy film directed by George B. Seitz and the fifth film in the Andy Hardy series of sixteen films.

Starring: Donna ReedE. G. DailyCarol Channing

Stablemates (1938)

Stablemates is a 1938 American sports drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Wallace Beery and Mickey Rooney.

Starring: June AllysonAnn BlythE. G. Daily

A Family Affair (1937)

A Family Affair is a 1937 American comedy film. It was the first of 16 movies now known as the Andy Hardy series, though Andy Hardy, played by Mickey Rooney, did not become the main character in the series until a few more installments had been made. The movie features Lionel Barrymore as Judge Hardy and Spring Byington as his wife, who are Andy's ...

Starring: Perry ComoE. G. DailyJanet Leigh

Hoosier Schoolboy (1937)

Hoosier Schoolboy is a 1937 American film directed by William Nigh and starring Mickey Rooney, Anne Nagel and Frank Shields.

Starring: E. G. DailyBetty Garrett

Slave Ship (1937)

Slave Ship is a 1937 film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery. The supporting cast features Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, and Joseph Schildkraut. It is one of very few films out of the forty-eight that Beery made during the sound era for which he did not receive top billing.

Starring: June AllysonTom MixE. G. Daily

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in their first film together.

Starring: ZaSu PittsE. G. DailyCharles Coburn

You're Only Young Once (1937)

You're Only Young Once is a 1937 comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. Following A Family Affair, it is the second film of the Andy Hardy series. Lewis Stone replaces Lionel Barrymore as Judge Hardy while Fay Holden replaced Spring Byington as his wife since both Barrymore and Byington were too expensive for the sequel's modest budget. Mickey Ro...

Starring: Donna ReedJudith AllenE. G. Daily

The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)

The Devil is a Sissy is a 1936 American MGM comedy-drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and Rowland Brown. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney, three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s.

Starring: Stewart GrangerE. G. DailyBonita Granville

Down the Stretch (1936)

Down the Stretch is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Clemens and written by William Jacobs. The film stars Patricia Ellis, Mickey Rooney, Dennis Moore, Willie Best, Gordon Hart and Wild Bill Elliott. The film was released by Warner Bros. on September 18, 1936.

Starring: E. G. DailyC. Aubrey SmithSlim Summerville

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1936 drama film based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, and C. Aubrey Smith. The first film produced by David O. Selznick's Selznick International Pictures, it was the studio's most profitable film until Gone with the Wind. The film is dir...

Starring: ZaSu PittsE. G. DailyBonita Granville

Riffraff (1936)

Riffraff is a 1936 American film directed by J. Walter Ruben and starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. The screenplay was written by Frances Marion, Anita Loos and H. W. Hannaford.

Starring: Monte BlueBeverly TylerE. G. Daily

Ah, Wilderness! (1935)

Ah, Wilderness! is a 1935 American comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1933 Eugene O'Neill play of the same name. Directed by Clarence Brown, the film stars Wallace Beery and features Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington, and a young Mickey Rooney. Rooney stars as Richard in MGM's musical remake Summer Holiday (1948).

Starring: Perry ComoJune AllysonE. G. Daily

The Healer (1935)

The Healer is a 1935 American film directed by Reginald Barker. The film is also known as Little Pal.

Starring: Lila LeeE. G. DailyBuck Jones

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American romantic comedy fantasy film of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, and starring James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Victor Jory and Ian Hunter. Produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wa...

Starring: Warner BaxterE. G. DailyDorothy Revier

Love Birds (1934)

Love Birds is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Doris Anderson, Henry Myers, and Tom Reed. The film stars Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Mickey Rooney, Frederick Burton, Emmett Vogan, and Dorothy Christy. The film was released on May 4, 1934, by Universal Pictures.

Starring: James CagneyJean HarlowE. G. Daily

The Big Chance (1933)

The Big Chance is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by Albert Herman. It was produced by the independent Eagle Pictures and released on the states-rights market.

Starring: John DarrowRalph BellamyE. G. Daily

High Speed (1932)

High Speed is a 1932 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.

Starring: Natalie MoorheadE. G. Daily

My Pal, the King (1932)

My Pal, the King is a 1932 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Kurt Neumann, starring Tom Mix, and featuring Mickey Rooney and James Kirkwood. The screenplay concerns a rodeo cowboy who helps a child king.

Starring: Patricia EllisE. G. Daily

Officer Thirteen (1932)

Officer Thirteen is a 1932 American crime film directed by George Melford and starring Monte Blue, Lila Lee and Charles Delaney. The film features an early performance from the future star Mickey Rooney in a supporting role. As of September 6, 2012, the film is in public domain.

Starring: Judith AllenOlivia de HavillandE. G. Daily

Sin's Pay Day (1932)

Sin's Pay Day is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Lloyd Whitlock, Dorothy Revier and Mickey Rooney. It was produced on Poverty Row as a second feature. It was later reissued under the alternative title Slums of New York with advertising material devoting greater attention to child actor Rooney, who had s...

Starring: Willie BestDorothy RevierE. G. Daily