When did the world stop loving Andy Hardy? The character, introduced by playwright Aurania Rouverol in the 1928 play Skidding and played by Mickey Rooney in a series of 16 widely popular films, was ...

Mass entertainment came of age in the 1930s, when idle workers dug into their pockets for dimes and sought refuge at the movies. All the escapist genres grew out of the Depression era, from musicals ...

For three straight years last century, the diminutive actor was Hollywood’s undisputed box-office champion, and the unlikeliest of role models/sex symbols for America’s adolescents, thanks to his role ...

Ann Rutherford, a wholesome supporting actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, notably as Scarlett O’Hara’s youngest sister in “Gone With the Wind” and as Mickey Rooney’s loyal sweetheart ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets ...

This pic doesn’t vary much from the basic formula used in the numerous predecessors in the Hardy family saga, but why should it? Mickey Rooney is a couple of years older but doesn’t look it, and ...

Mickey Rooney, a celebrated child actor who embodied the All-American boy in the “Andy Hardy” films of the 1930s and ‘40s and became one of the era’s top box-office draws, has died. He was 93. Rooney, ...