And Mickey Rooney replies ... the No. 1 box-office attractions were kids well below voting age: Shirley Temple for three years beginning in 1936 (when she was all of eight), immediately ...

Little Shirley Temple was the first recipient of ... pictures” during the previous 12 months. Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney were the next to receive the honorary Oscar - both were teenagers ...

Few actresses ever had a better claim on the title of America’s Sweetheart than Shirley Temple ... ever enjoy even one year in first place. Mickey Rooney, her successor as the box-office ...

Teddy Rooney, an actor, musician and a son of the late Mickey Rooney ... with Audie Murphy and on TV shows including “Shirley Temple’s Storybook,” “Wagon Train,” “The Rifleman, ...

Shirley Temple, born April 23 ... By 1940, when Temple was 11, Mickey Rooney took over as the box-office favorite, which put an end to Temple's Fox contract. No longer a little girl, she continued ...

The long list of obituaries includes Maya Angelou, Lauren Bacall, Sid Caesar, James Garner, Mike Nichols, Mickey Rooney, Pete Seeger, Elaine Stritch, Shirley Temple Black and Eli Wallach.

Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shirley Temple Black, Maxine Kumin, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney, L’Wren Scott, Peter Mathiessen, Melba Hernandez, Harold Ramis and others who died this year.

So Mickey Rooney was the last male left alive who ... when he was the number 3 champion at the box office (following Clark Gable and Shirley Temple), he let it be known that Mickey Mouse had ...

There were other child stars at the time, the Our Gang crew, Jane Withers, Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and Mickey Rooney, and more. None had the appeal of Shirley Temple. We did not see her ...

Teddy Rooney, an actor, musician and a son of the ... with Audie Murphy and on TV shows including Shirley Temple’s Storybook, Wagon Train, The Rifleman, Lassie and McHale’s Navy.