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The world’s oldest cinema is in France, but more surprisingly Australia lays claim to its oldest outdoor screen. Broome, on ...
"He thought everyone hated him," Cinespia founder John Wyatt said during a recent interview with IndieWire. "He must have gotten a lot of hate mail when he was unjustly persecuted." Wyatt was ...
Judy Garland was best known for playing Dorothy Gale and singing "Over the Rainbow" in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. But while Dorothy went on a fantastical adventure, the actress and singer's ...
It would be an exaggeration to say that without Rooney there would have been no James Dean and Natalie Wood, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, Molly Ringwald and Matthew Broderick, Lindsay Lohan ...
Girl Crazy (M.G.M.) shows Judy Garland all buoyed up by Mickey Rooney. There are also Tommy Dorsey's band, which sets the pace for some stupefying dance routines, a comic girl (Nancy Walker) who ...
Then, in 1932, Rooney broke out of his Mickey McGuire box and became Midge in the film Fast Companions. But it was his work as Andy Hardy in the 1937 film A Family Affair that shot him into stardom.
The birthplace of Judy Garland is at 2727 S. Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids. Wyatt Buckner / Duluth Media Group "Nobody wanted to work with us after that. Our credibility was gone," said Heitz.
Judy Garland The third daughter of vaudevillians Frank and Ethel Gumm, the future icon was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. She made her stage debut at the age ...
(Her father died in 1935 after a sudden bout of meningitis.) Photos show co-star and friend Mickey Rooney visiting the house and also Garland’s first husband, bandleader David Rose.