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Pete’s Dragon *** (1977, Sean Marshall, Mickey Rooney, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Jim Backus, Jeff Conaway) – Classic Movie Review 3712

Don Chaffey directs Walt Disney’s modest 1977 musical mix of animation and live action, in which big green-and-purple, dopey magical cartoon dragon Elliott (created by animator Don Bluth, voiced by Charlie Callas) saves the nine-year-old sweet orphan […]

May, 16

Words and Music *** (1948, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Tom Drake, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, Ann Sothern, Perry Como) – Classic Movie Review 3622

Director Norman Taurog’s 1948 movie is a fictionalised musical bioipc, very loosely based on the creative partnership of the composer Richard Rodgers (Tom Drake) and lyricist Lorenz Hart (Mickey Rooney). A lavish showcasing of the Rodgers and Hart catalogue of […]

Apr, 26

Thousands Cheer *** (1943, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, John Boles, Mary Astor, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland) – Classic Movie Review 3621

And thousands did cheer at director George Sidney’s hugely entertaining, incredibly lavish 1943 MGM comedy musical, now a period piece as a Second World War morale-booster for American troops and their families. It was advertised as ’30 […]

Apr, 26

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante ** (1940, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 3620

Director George B Seitz’s entertaining 1940 ninth film in the MGM comedy series, Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, finds Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is still chasing pretty MGM starlets. Hooray for Judy Garland in a charismatic […]

Apr, 26

Love Finds Andy Hardy *** (1938, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Lana Turner) – Classic Movie Review 3619

Mickey Rooney stars as teenage Andy Hardy who becomes entangled with three girls at the same time in director George B Seitz’s amusing and enjoyable 1938 MGM romantic comedy film, Love Finds Andy Hardy. It also […]

Apr, 26

Strike Up the Band ***½ (1940, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, June Preisser, William Tracy, Larry Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 3611

Director Busby Berkeley’s pleasing 1940 musical is a pleasant re-run for the talented team from Babes in Arms (1939), keeping only George Gershwin’s title song from his 1928 Broadway show. In a supposedly new story that […]

Apr, 24

Babes on Broadway **** (1941, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Alexander Woolcott, Margaret O’Brien, Virginia Weidler, Ray Macdonald, Richard Quine, Donna Reed, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 3609

Director Busby Berkeley’s infectiously exuberant 1942 follow-up to his 1939 Babes in Arms again teams Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as hopeful talented young performers battling on Broadway, while putting on a show to send […]

Apr, 24

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