24 August 2026

Published by Netter's Starverlag

Netter's Starverlag is a German publisher of star postcards. Some 50 years ago, Netter's reproduced vintage postcards of famous film stars. The originals were often Kunst und Bild postcards from the Adenauer era, the late 1940s and 1950s. The quality of the Netter's Verlag cards was definitely less than that of the original postcards. The numbers were often handwritten. They must have been a labour of love by a fan. We like these nostalgic cards and chose 14 examples for this EFSP post.

Wera Frydtberg
German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin, no. A 1205. Photo: Herzog Filmverleih. Wera Frydtberg in Sie / She (Rolf Thiele, 1954).

German film, television and stage actress Wera Frydtberg (1926–2008) was a star of the German cinema of the 1950s. She appeared in leading roles in Ich denke oft an Piroschka / I Often Think of Piroschka (1955) and Wir Wunderkinder / Aren't We Wonderful? (1958).

Gina Lollobrigida
German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin. Photo: Constantin. Gina Lollobrigida in Notre-Dame de Paris / The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Jean Delannoy, 1956).

Gorgeous Italian actress and photojournalist Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023) was one of the first European sex symbols of the post-war years. ‘La Lollo’ paved the way into Hollywood for her younger colleagues Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale.

Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (Robert Z. Leonard, 1931). A reproduction of a Ross Verlag postcard, no. 1701/22.

Swedish Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was one of the greatest and most glamorous film stars ever produced by the Hollywood studio system. She was part of the Golden Age of the silent cinema of the 1920s and was one of the few actors who made a glorious transition to the talkies. She started her career in European cinema and would always stay more popular in Europe than in the USA.

Hardy Krüger (1928–2022)
West German postcard by Netter's Star Verlag, Berlin, no. T 855.

German actor and writer Hardy Krüger (1928-2022) was a blond heartthrob who acted in several international films of the 1950s and 1960s. He played friendly soldiers and adventurers in numerous German, British and French films and some Hollywood classics. Although he was often typecast as the Aryan Nazi, he hated wearing the brown uniform.

Hardy Krüger (1928–2022)
West German postcard by Netter's Star Verlag, Berlin, no. A 709. Photo: Herzog Film.

Gregory Peck
West German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Bad Münder / Bakede. Photo: 20th Century Fox.

American actor Gregory Peck (1916-2003) was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five Oscar nominations for Best Actor and won once – for his performance as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He almost always played courageous, nobly heroic good guys who saw injustice and fought it. Among his best-known films are Spellbound (1945), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Roman Holiday (1953), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Cape Fear (1962).

Paul Newman
West German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin.

American film actor Paul Newman (1925-2008) was a matinee idol with the most famous blue eyes of Hollywood, who often played detached yet charismatic anti-heroes and rebels. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in five decades and finally won the Oscar for The Color of Money (1986). He was also a prominent social activist, a major proponent of actors' creative rights, and a noted philanthropist.

Volker von Collande
German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin, no. F-326.

German actor, screenwriter and film director Volker von Collande (1913-1990) appeared in more than 40 films between 1934 and 1987. He usually played upstanding citizens or men in uniform. Von Collande also directed more than 20 films between 1942 and 1967. He was a member of the Nazi Party.

Volker von Collande
German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin, no. F-325.

Robert Mitchum
German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin. Photo: RKO Radio Film.

American film star Robert Mitchum (1917–1997) is one of the icons of Hollywood thanks to his roles as tough guys, loners and drifters in many War films, Westerns and such classic Film Noirs as Out of the Past (1947) and His Kind of Woman (1952). His facade of cool, sleepy-eyed indifference proved highly attractive to both men and women. Mitchum portrayed two of the scariest screen villains ever: the psychotic evangelist Reverend Harry Powell in Night of the Hunter (1955) and cruel rapist Max Cady in the original Cape Fear (1962). During his notable 55-year acting career, he appeared in more than 125 films.

Rik Battaglia
German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin.

Italian film actor Rik Battaglia (1927-2015) made nearly 100 film appearances between 1954 and 1999. He played the bad guy in dozens of Peplums, Euro-Westerns, and War films. In Germany, he became notorious as ‘The Man Who Shot Winnetou.‘

Lisa Lesco
German postcard by Netter's Star Verlag, Bad Münder, no. A 169.

German actress and singer Lisa Lesco (1915-2003) was a popular stage performer and also appeared in a few German films from the 1930s to the 1950s. She appeared in successful operettas in Berlin theatres, opposite Johannes Heesters and Rudolf Platte.

Silvana Pampanini
West German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin. Photo: Generalcine Film.

Italian diva Silvana Pampanini (1925-2016) enjoyed enormous popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1950s, before Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida reached stardom, Pampanini was one of the most well-known symbols of Italian beauty.

Mario Adorf (1930-2026)
West German postcard by Netter's Starverlag, Berlin.

For many decades, German-Swiss actor Mario Adorf (1930-2026) was a very active star of European cinema, known for his Mediterranean looks, his dark, oily frizzy hair and his imposing figure. He started as a talented newcomer in German films of the 1950s, he hammed his way through the 1960s as a villain in Euro-Westerns and action pictures, but then he became best known for his roles in some classics of the Junge Deutsche Film, such as Die Blechtrommel / The Tin Drum (1978) and Lola (1981). He appeared in over 200 films and TV shows.

23 August 2026

Il film rivelatore (1914), Les enfants d’Edouard (1913) and Faedrenes synd (1914)

This month, EFSP has a series of posts about Reclam Films. In the early 1910s, this Spanish editor published minicards, small collector cards in black and white, on silent films. Each series of a film contained six minicards. We started with a post on two German films by the Mestter company, then followed a post with two French Pathé productions and last week we presented two series on Gaumont films. In this fourth and last post on the Reclam Films series, we have three films: the Italian Pasquali production Il film rivelatore (1914), the French Cosmograph production Les enfants d’Edouard (1913) and the Danish drama Faedrenes synd (1914), produced by Nordisk.

Il film rivelatore (1914)


Il film rivelatore (Pasquali 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 1 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena and Maria Jacobini in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914). The film was released in Spain as La cinta acusadora.

Il film rivelatore (Pasquali 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 2 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena and Maria Jacobini in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914).

Il film rivelatore (Pasquali 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 3 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914). On this card, Serena is in the foreground with an unknown actress, possibly the actress who plays the cinematographer, Tilly.

The Italian silent drama Il film rivelatore / The Revealing Film (Umberto Paradisi, 1914), with Gustavo Serena, Maria Jacobini, Luigi Mele and Nello Carotenuto, was produced by Pasquali Film and premiered in Italy in July 1914. The film was released in Spain as La cinta acusadora.

Gustavo Serena plays Count de Lys (Jack Daingerfield in the American version of this film, distributed by the Picture Playhouse Film Company), who has lost his entire fortune and is forced to marry a rich heiress, Mary Delmar (Maria Jacobini). Jack recognises her as an old flame and is eagerly willing to marry her.

At the wedding, a rival suitor appears, Count Metzburg (Lord Lytton in the American version), who breaks up the romance by showing Maria a telegram from the usurer Vernier, which confirms De Lys's economic misfortune.

De Lys then decides to start working in a film company and agrees to film a lion hunt in Africa with his female aide Tilly. Metzburg and Vernier see this as an opportunity to get rid of the man and shoot him in Africa, presuming he died. Yet, De Lys is only wounded, and Tilly has filmed it all. During the betrothal party of Maria and Metzburg, the film exposes the lurid action of the two villains, and Maria consents to marry De Lys.

It's not clear who played the evil Metzburg or Lytton. IMDb claims it was Italian actor Luigi Mele, but our other source, Vittorio Martinelli, contradicts this in his 'Il cinema muto italiano, 1914, Vol. 1'.

Il film rivelatore (Pasquali 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 4 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Scene from Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914).

Il film rivelatore (Pasquali 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 5 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914).

Il film rivelatore (Pasquali 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 6 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Nello Carotenuto in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914).

Les enfants d’Édouard (1913)


Les enfants d'Édouard (Cosmograph 1913)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 1 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Scene from Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913). This scene could be the presentation to the court of Crown Prince Edward (Marcelle Fleury) as the future King Edward V by his mother Queen Elizabeth (Jeanne Delvair). To their right stands the uncle of young Edward, the Duke of Gloucester (Georges Wague), who considers himself to be the rightful future king. The scene could also simply represent the mourning of the deceased King Edward IV.

Les enfants d'Édouard (Cosmograph 1913)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 2 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Scene from Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913). It isn't clear what the gypsies in the old streets of London are supposed to mean.

Les enfants d'Édouard (Cosmograph 1913)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 3 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Scene from Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913). In the back, Georges Wague as the Duke of Gloucester, future Richard III. In the foreground right, Jeanne Delvair as Queen Elizabeth, fearing for the life of her son, crown prince Edward (Marcelle Fleury).

In 1909, André Calmettes directed the first silent version of Les enfants d'Édouard / The Children of Edward for Pathé. In 1913, Henri Andréani, a former assistant to Charles Pathé turned film director, directed a new version. He made his silent version of Les enfants d'Édouard / The Children of Edward for the new company Cosmograph, which was founded in 1912.

Georges Wague played Richard III, Duke of Gloucester, who, after the death of his brother Edward IV (Jean Jacquinet), wants to take the throne.

He therefore has the two young sons of Edward and the helpless Queen Elizabeth (Jeanne Delvair) arrested. The two boys, including the crown prince, are locked up in the Tower and are finally murdered by Tyrell.

Richard crowns himself as King Richard III. A rebellion breaks out, led by the Duke of Buckingham (Jean Toulout). Finally, at the Battle of Bosworth Field, abandoned by all, Richard was killed by the Earl of Richmond, the future King Henry VII.

The film script by Paul d'Ivoi was based on William Shakespeare's play 'Richard III' (c. 1595), which enjoyed wide diffusion in France at the time, and on Casimir Delavigne's tragedy, 'Les Enfants d'Édouard' (1833). There is also a famous oil on canvas painting by French painter Paul Delaroche, which focuses on the theme of the Princes in the Tower and was created in 1830. The painting is held in the Louvre in Paris. While Les enfants d'Édouard / The Children of Edward (Henri Andréani, 1913) was made in France in 1913, its release in France and beyond was in 1914.

Les enfants d'Édouard (Cosmograph 1913)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 4 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Georges Wague as the Duke of Gloucester, Marcelle Fleury as Crown Prince Edward, and an unidentified young actor as his brother Richard in Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913).

Les enfants d'Édouard (Cosmograph 1913)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 5 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Jeanne Delvair as Queen Elizabeth and behind her Jean Toulout as the Duke of Buckingham in Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913).

Les enfants d'Édouard (Cosmograph 1913)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 6 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Jean Toulout (right) as the Duke of Buckingham in Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913).

Faedrenes synd (1914)


Faedrenes synd (Nordisk 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 1 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from the Danish film Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914), released in Spain as La inquidad de un padre. Marie Dinesen as the poor mother with her two children.

Faedrenes synd (Nordisk 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 2 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Daughter Elisa (Ragnhild Lykke) [?] and the astronomer Dr. Levin (Thorkild Roose).

Faedrenes synd (Nordisk 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 3 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Brother and sister: Victor (Nicolai Johannsen) and Elisa (Ragnhild Lykke).

The Danish drama Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (1914) was directed by famous film pioneer August Blom for the Nordisk Kompagni. It was scripted by Sven Lange and cinematographed by Johan Ankerstjerne. The first screening in Denmark was on 1 June 1914.

The attorney Franz Muller (Carl Lauritzen) and his wife (Marie Dinesen) and two children live in humble circumstances. He meets an usurer, Abel Simon, who suggests he forge a signature, but he refuses.

His wife gets ill, and in his delirium, Muller projects the life of his son and daughter: Elisa (Ragnhild Lykke), a poor creature and his son Victor (Nicolai Johannsen), a criminal. When his wife dies, for his children's sake, Muller accepts Simon's proposal to become his associate as a banker.

Fifteen years later, he has become an established banker, and his children have grown up. Elisa is betrothed to an astronomer, Dr. Levin (Thorkild Roose), who is about to become a professor. Yet, Levin suspects there is something wrong with Elisa's father. His own father once killed himself because of the usurer Abel Simon. Elisa is shocked but soon finds out that Simon is the associate of her father.

Elisa's brother, who has become an officer and is about to marry into a renowned military family, discovers a document which proves the bond between his father and the usurer. All the intense and caring help Muller has given to his children when growing up vanishes when the secret comes out. Son and daughter flee the town. Muller, cursed and abandoned by his children, dies in pain.

Faedrenes synd (Nordisk 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 4 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Victor (Nicolai Johannsen) and his well-to-do future bride (possibly Gyda Aller).

Faedrenes synd (Nordisk 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 5 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Brother and sister realise their father's stain on their reputation (Nicolai Johannsen and Ragnhild Lykke).

Faedrenes synd (Nordisk 1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 6 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Kevin tells Elisa of his father's death (Thokild Roose and Ragnhil Lykke). Or is it Elisa telling the terrible secret of her father?

Sources: Vittorio Martinelli (Il cinema muto italiano, 1914, Vol. 1 - Italian), DFI, Ciné-Ressources, Wikipedia and IMDb.

22 August 2026

Mickey Rooney

American film actor Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) had one of the longest careers in cinematic history. As a child, he first appeared on film in 1926, and he made his last appearance in 2014. As a teenager, Rooney was a superstar playing Andy Hardy in a series of 15 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomised American family values. With Judy Garland, he became a successful song-and-dance team. Rooney's breakthrough role as a dramatic actor came in Boys Town (1938) opposite Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan. The popularity of his films made Rooney the biggest box-office draw in 1939, 1940 and 1941.

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
British postcard in the Film Partners Series, London, no. PC 279. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Mickey Rooney
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 902a. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in Boys Town (1938)
Yugoslav postcard by St. Rugli, Zagreb. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. < b>Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in Boys Town (Norman Taurog, 1938).

Mickey Rooney and Ann Rutherford in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
British postcard in the Film Partners Series, London, no. PC 302. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Mickey Rooney and Ann Rutherford in Love Finds Andy Hardy (George B. Seitz, 1938).

Mickey Rooney, Ann Rutherford, Judy Garland and Lana Turner in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 1281. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Love Finds Andy Hardy (George B. Seitz, 1938) with Ann Rutherford, Judy Garland and Lana Turner.

Mickey Rooney in Out West with the Hardys (1938)
British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 327. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Mickey Rooney in Out West with the Hardys (George B. Seitz, 1938).

Mickey Rooney
Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit., no 2259. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The popular all-American teenager


Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. in 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Scottish-born vaudevillian/actor Joe Yule and Missouri-born Nell Ruth (née Carter) Pankey. Mickey first took the stage in his parents' vaudeville act at 17 months old, wearing a specially tailored tuxedo. His parents divorced in 1923, when Mickey was three years old.

In 1925, Mickey came to Hollywood to audition as one of Hal Roach's Rascals for the Our Gang series, but Mickey's mother declined over a salary dispute. Mickey then made his first film appearance in the short silent comedy Not to Be Trusted (Tom Buckingham, 1926), when he was four years old. He played the character Mickey McGuire for the first time in the bubbly comedy Orchids and Ermine (Alfred Santell, 1927) with Colleen Moore. The following year, he played the lead in the first Mickey McGuire short film, Mickey's Circus (Albert Herman, 1927). It was in this popular film series that he took the stage name Mickey Rooney.

Rooney reached new heights with A Family Affair (George B. Seitz, 1937) with Lionel Barrymore, the film that introduced the country to Andy Hardy, the popular all-American teenager. This beloved character appeared in nearly 20 films and helped make Rooney the top box-office star in 1939, 1940 and 1941. Rooney also proved himself an excellent dramatic actor as a delinquent in Boys Town (Norman Taurog, 1938), starring Spencer Tracy as Father Edward Flanagan, an advocate of child rights. In 1938, Rooney was awarded a Juvenile Academy Award.

Teaming up with Judy Garland, Rooney also appeared in a string of musicals, including Babes in Arms (Busby Berkeley, 1939) the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role, Strike Up the Band (Busby Berkeley, 1940), Babes on Broadway (Busby Berkeley, 1941), and Girl Crazy (Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley, 1943). He and Garland immediately became best of friends. He also appeared with Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet (Clarence Brown, 1944).

During World War II, Mickey Rooney served 21 months in the U.S. Army, five of them with the Third Army of Gen. George S. Patton. He attained the rank of sergeant and won a Bronze Star, among other decorations. Rooney helped to entertain the troops and worked on the American Armed Forces Network. He returned to Hollywood and starred in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (Willis Goldbeck, 1946), did a remake of the James Cagney film The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks, 1932) called Killer McCoy (Roy Rowland, 1947) and portrayed composer Lorenz Hart in the musical Words and Music (Norman Taurog, 1948).

Mickey Rooney
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 902. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Mickey Rooney
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 902c. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Mickey Rooney in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 1280. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Love Finds Andy Hardy (George B. Seitz, 1938) with (back row) Cecilia Parker, Ann Rutherford, Judy Garland, Gene Reynolds, Lana Turner and (front row) Mary Howard, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden and Mickey Rooney.

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms (1939
Postcard from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms (Busby Berkeley, 1939). Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.

Mickey Rooney in Young Tom Edison (1940)
Spanish postcard, series 4021, no. 40. Mickey Rooney in Young Tom Edison (Norman Taurog, 1940). Sent by mail in 1945.

Mickey Rooney
Dutch postcard by J.S.A. Photo: M.G.M. / M.P.E.

Mickey Rooney and Esther Williams in Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
Belgian postcard, no. 61. Photo: M.G.M. Mickey Rooney and Esther Williams in Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942).

Mickey Rooney (1920-2014), Gloria DeHaven in Summer Holiday
Belgian collector card by Kwatta, Bois d'Haine, no. C. 172. Photo: MGM. Publicity still for Summer Holiday (Rouben Mamoulian, 1948) with Gloria DeHaven.

One of Hollywood's most enduring stars


Mickey Rooney appeared in Andy Hardy Comes Home (Howard W. Koch, 1958), together with his son Teddy Rooney portraying Andy Hardy Jr. Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Rooney did a nightclub comedy act with comic Joey Forman. He also appeared in Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961), starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Rooney played Hepburn's Japanese neighbour, Mr. Yunioshi. A sign of the times, Rooney played the part for comic relief, which he later regretted, feeling the role was offensive. He once again showed his incredible range in the dramatic role of a boxing trainer with Anthony Quinn and Jackie Gleason in Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, 1962). He followed it up with the comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963), starring Spencer Tracy.

Rooney regularly worked in European productions, such as the Italian comedy L'arcidiavolo (Ettore Scola, 1966) with Vittorio Gassman, British crime comedy Pulp (Mike Hodges, 1972) with Michael Caine, and the Spanish thriller Juego sucio en Panamá/Ace of Hearts (Tulio Demicheli, 1975). In the late 1960s and 1970s, Rooney showed audiences and critics alike why he was one of Hollywood's most enduring stars. He gave an impressive performance in Francis Ford Coppola's The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard, 1979), which brought him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He also turned to the stage in 1979 in Sugar Babies with Ann Miller, and was nominated for a Tony Award. During that time, he also portrayed the Wizard in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Eartha Kitt at New York's Madison Square Garden, which also had a successful national run.

Rooney appeared in four television series: The Mickey Rooney Show (1954-1955), a comedy sitcom in 1964 with Sammee Tong called Mickey, One of the Boys (1982) with Dana Carvey and Nathan Lane, and The Adventures of Black Stallion (1990-1993). In 1981, Rooney won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of a mentally challenged man in Bill (Anthony Page, 1981). The critical acclaim continued to flow for the veteran performer, with Rooney receiving an honorary Academy Award.

Later, he also appeared in such films as Erik the Viking (Terry Jones, 1989) with Tim Robbins, Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy, 2006) with Ben Stiller and The Muppets (James Bobin, 2011) with Amy Adams. Rooney's personal life, including his frequent trips to the altar, has proved to be just as epic as his on-screen performances. His first wife was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, actress Ava Gardner, but his final marriage to Jan Rooney was longer than those of all his other seven wives combined.

In 2012, when he permanently and legally separated from his eighth wife, Rooney chose to permanently reside with his stepson Mark Rooney and Mark's wife, Charlene Rooney. They moved to the Hollywood Hills for him. After his death, his eight surviving children said in a statement that they were barred from seeing Rooney during his final years. Mickey Rooney passed away in 2014 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. The 93-year-old had at least three future projects that he was going to perform in. His acting career had lasted for 89 years, and Rooney's 339 film credits span ten consecutive decades: 1920s-2010s. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

Mickey Rooney
Belgian postcard by Victoria, Brussels, no. 639. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Mickey Rooney
Spanish postcard by Sobe, no. 137. Sent by mail in 1946.

Mickey Rooney (1920-2014)
American postcard. Photo: MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer).

Mickey Rooney (1920-2014)
Dutch postcard by 't Sticht, Utrecht, no. 3201. Photo: MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).

Mickey Rooney (1920-2014)
Dutch postcard by Uitgeverij J. Sleeding N.V., Amsterdam, no. S 94. Photo: MGM.

Mickey Rooney
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. 28. Photo: MGM.

Mickey Rooney, Then and Now
American postcard. Caption: Mickey Rooney, Then and Now.

Mike Mazurki, Lassie and Mickey Rooney in The Magic of Lassie (1978)
Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg, Rotterdam / Antwerpen, no. C. Photo: Televideo-Holland B.V., Naarden / Lassie Television Inc., 1979. Mike Mazurki, Lassie and Mickey Rooney in The Magic of Lassie (Don Chaffey, 1978).

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.