YourRadioShows

5 audio CDs in a beautiful, sealed, case collection.

1940-1941 Live Radio Theater Shows 
Comedy, Song & Drama Presentation 
Enjoy hours of radio entertainment...with original Lux Soap Commercials!

You will simply love The Mickey Rooney Collection...a collectors edition and choice. Filled with the charm of the good old days. These audio CD's will take you back to your favorite childhood memories, filled with your favorite songs, laughter and some tears. Cherished performances by Hollywood greats! 

You wont want to miss out on these classic original live Lux radio show broadcasts with a cast of Hollywood stars. Legendary... Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor and a cast of unforgettable radio and film stars!

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor of film, television, Broadway, radio, and vaudeville. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era.

At the height of a career that was marked by precipitous declines and raging comebacks, Rooney played the role of Andy Hardy in a series of fifteen films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized American family values. A versatile performer, he could sing, dance, clown, and play various musical instruments, becoming a celebrated character actor later in his career.

 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 he was "the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with."

Rooney first performed in vaudeville as a child and made his film debut at the age of six. At thirteen he played the role of Puck in the play and later the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. His performance was hailed by critic David Thomson as "one of cinema's most arresting pieces of magic". In 1938, he co-starred with Spencer Tracy in the Academy Award-winning film Boys Town. At nineteen he was the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar for his leading role in Babes in Arms, and he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1939. At the peak of his career between the ages of 15 and 25, he made forty-three films and co-starred alongside Judy Garland, Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, and Elizabeth Taylor. He was one of MGM's most consistently successful actors and a favorite of studio head Louis B. Mayer.

Rooney was the top box office attraction from 1939–41,and one of the best-paid actors of that era, but his career never rose to such heights again. Drafted into the Army during World War II, he served nearly two years entertaining over two million troops on stage and radio and was awarded a Bronze Star for performing in combat zones. Returning from the war in 1945, he was too old for juvenile roles but too short to be an adult movie star, and he was not able to obtain acting roles as significant as before.

Courtesy of Wikipedia.

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INCLUDED SHOWS
Strike Up The Band
Starring Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland
October 28,1940
 
Merton Of The Movies
Starring Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland 
November 17,1941

Strike Up The Band
Starring Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney
October 28,1940

Merton Of The Movies
Starring Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney 
November 17,1941

Meet Me In St. Louis 
Starring Judy Garland & Margaret O'Brien
December 2,1946
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This collection is in a sealed case.
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Please remember some shows are 80 years old and in their original state. Please email if you have a question!