Mickey Rooney Autographs
Mickey Rooney (born Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era. At the height of a career ultimately marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized the mainstream United States self-image.
At the peak of his career between ages 15 and 25, he made 43 films, and was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most consistently successful actors. A versatile performer, he became 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 in National Velvet and The Human Comedy, said Rooney was "the closest thing to a genius" with whom he had ever worked. He won a Golden Globe Award in 1982 and an Emmy Award in the same year for the title role in a television movie Bill and was awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 1982.
Rooney first performed in vaudeville as a child actor, and made his film debut at the age of six. He played the title character in the "Mickey McGuire" series of 78 short films, from age seven to 13. At 14 and 15, he played Puck in the play and subsequent film adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At the age of 16, he began playing Andy Hardy, and gained his first recognition at 17 as Whitey Marsh in Boys Town. At only 19, Rooney became the second-youngest Best Actor in a Leading Role nominee and the first teenager to be nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as Mickey Moran in 1939 film adaptation of coming-of-age Broadway musical Babes in Arms; he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1939. Rooney received his second Academy Award nomination in the same category for his role as Homer Macauley in The Human Comedy.
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Traded items with a signature of Mickey Rooney
The most expensive item with a signature of Mickey Rooney (Vintage 1942 Mickey Rooney Alan Hale Sr. Actors Golfing Photograph Signed) was sold in November 2025 for $2,000.00 while the cheapest item (NobleSpirit NO RESERVE 3970 Superb MICKEY ROONEY Hand-Signed AUTOGRAPH!) found a new owner for $0.01 in March 2016. The month with the most items sold (16) was April 2014 with an average selling price of $24.24 for an autographed item of Mickey Rooney. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2020 with $125.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.00 was September 2023. In average, an autographed item from Mickey Rooney is worth $26.25.
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Latest News about Mickey Rooney
Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney dies, aged 93 (12/20/2014): The actor was best known for playing Andy Hardy in the '30s and '40s.
