TCM hsa been running that TCM Remembers Mickey Rooney piece several times, with a note at the end saying there will be a 24-hour salute to Rooney on Sunday starting at 6:00 AM. Technically it's a 25-hour salute since the last movie, A Midsummer Night's Dream, goes from 4:30 AM Monday to 7:00 AM, but that's beside the point.
In the post I wrote on Rooney on Monday, I mentioned Hide-Out, since it's a movie with Rooney in the cast that I really like. That's not going to be part of the tribute, but that might be in part because it was already on the schedule, for 12:45 PM tomorrow, April 10.
I think there's one other Mickey Rooney movie airing on TCM between now and the start of the Sunday tribute: The Courtship of Andy Hardy, at 4:00 PM Saturday. The brief summary at TCM says this one has Rooney's Andy Hardy falling in love with Donna Reed, who is playing a character whose parents are getting divorced -- and the divorce is being handled by Judge Hardy! I haven't seen this one, but then, I don't go out of my way to seek out the Andy Hardy movies.
I'd like to purchase the box set of Andy Hardy films, but they're kinda price right now so hopefully they'll come down in price one day.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that Rooney never sat down to do some commentaries to his films. So many memories that could have been preserved for posterity. Now gone.