ESTATE OF ACTING LEGEND MICKEY ROONEY 2025-03-30 Auction - 250 Price Results - JOHN MOORADIAN AUCTION & ESTATE SERVICES in CA
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1998 Original Wizard of Oz Poster on Card Stock Autographed by Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kit and CastMickey Rooney's 2008 80th Annual Academy Awards Ticket & Oscars PackageMickey Rooney Autographed 1979 Sugar Babies Broadway Original 14 in. x 22 in. Window Card Poster
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West Hills, CA, United States
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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.
Hooray for Hollywood Poster: From the Estate of Mickey Rooney, a Hooray for Hollywood poster for the documentary as told by Mickey Rooney with clips of an amazing array of stars from Hollywood's Golden Age.
0003: Hooray for Hollywood PosterEst. $100-$150Lot Passed
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