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ESTATE OF ACTING LEGEND MICKEY ROONEY
Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. In a career spanning nearly nine decades and including more than 300 films, Rooney was the top male box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era. At the peak of his career between ages 15 and 25, he made 43 films, and was one of MGM's most consistently successful actors. A versatile performer, he became a celebrated character actor later in his career. Sir Laurence Olivier once said he considered Rooney "the best there has ever been". Clarence Brown, who directed him in two of his earliest dramatic roles National Velvet and The Human Comedy, said Rooney was "the closest thing to a genius" with whom he had ever worked. Rooney won a Golden Globe Award in 1982 and an Emmy Award in the same year for the title role in a television movie Bill and in 1983, when he was given the Academy's highest honor, he said "When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me, I couldn't get a job. And then, a professor from the University of Tennessee got a show together with Terry Allen Kramer and Harry Rigby called Sugar Babies and it resurrected my career...but the one that's responsible outside of God is my wife, Jan, who kept saying to me for the last 7 years - I know you can do it Mick, get up off the canvas, you can do it. I want to thank you one and all for remembering me, thank you for this glorious moment." Presented here are 250 lots from the Estate of Mickey Rooney including early original black and white photos, stage worn costumes, personal and autographed scripts, autographed stage and film posters, autographed photos, signed and unsigned Sugar Babies memorabilia as well as some of Rooney's art and personal effects. The Estate has reviewed all descriptors in this auction and confirmed their veracity and provenance in a signed statement included in the photographs of Lot 1.
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0001: Mickey Rooney Autographed 1979 Sugar Babies Broadway Original 14 in. x 22 in. Window Card PosterEst. $150-$250
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0006: Mickey's Book Seabiscuit, The Saga of a Great Champion + The Blood-Horse Magazine + Orig. Photos LotEst. $150-$200
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0007: Christine Picavet 1988 Royal Battle Print Pencil Signed by Artist and Bill Shoemaker "to Mickey andEst. $100-$200
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0009: Original Used 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugural District of Columbia License PlateEst. $1,000-$2,000Lot Passed
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0010: Mickey Rooney's Hand Written Notes About His Friend Charlie ChaplinEst. $100-$200
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0012: Mickey Rooney's 1976 Evel Knievel Bi-Centennial Tournament Pin, Gift from Evel to Mickey - RareEst. $125-$250Lot Passed
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0013: Over The Rainbow Sepia Toned Print Signed by Artist Jeffrey R. Eckert Inscribed to Mickey RooneyEst. $150-$250
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0015: 1977 Original Signed Check from Mickey Rooney to The Hollywood ReporterEst. $150-$300
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0016: 1953 Original Paramount Pictures 11" x 14" Off Limits Poster with Stars Bob Hope and Mickey RooneyEst. $75-$150Lot Passed
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0017: Mickey Rooney's Roley Italy Vintage Derby Vest Pocket Pipe and Vintage Rowenta Lighter LotEst. $125-$200
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0020: Mickey's 1983 55th Annual Academy Awards Program - Year Rooney Received Honorary OscarEst. $200-$300
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0021: 1926 Original Black & White Photo of the Duncan Sisters with Sonny Yule (Mickey Rooney)Est. $100-$150Lot Passed
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0022: Mickey Rooney's Desk Name Plate and his 2006 Screen Actor's Guild Card LotEst. $200-$250
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0023: One of a Kind 1979 Mickey Rooney Caricature Drawing by Harry Buckner at the Pump RoomEst. $250-$500Lot Passed
0024: Mickey Rooney's 1980s Stage Worn Costume: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumEst. $3,000-$5,000Lot Passed
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