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"I had been a 13 12 months old boy for 30 years." (Mickey Rooney) In 1939, the year of Gone with the Blowing wind and The Wizard of Oz, Time mag observed, "Hollywood's No. 1 pack office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Electricity, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week experienced never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinema audience, his name was becoming a commonly used synonym for brat." At exactly the same time, the actual fact that the maximum of his success came up when he was so young has helped obscure the actual fact that he has acted in 10 different years. Rooney is one of the one actors who performed in the silent film period, yet he lately appeared in 2012's Last Will and Embezzlement. Along the way Rooney has been awarded a Juvenile Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and an Emmy Award.