Stars ablazin'

 

Once again … Pops was right; know it all son was wrong.  He loved Mickey Rooney, almost as much as John Wayne (see Sept 5th blog entry).  I just watched J and M’s ninth and last movie together - Girl Crazy 1943.  The Times called 21 year old Judy an  “earthbound angel” and as for shorty …"the protean Mickey does everything but play Hamlet. He sings, bears the brunt of an Apache dance, impersonates the sundry characters at a prizefight, bangs a piano with considerable finesse, and finally does a hep-cat hoedown with Miss Garland that must have caused a minor earthquake." They were on fire with full blast talent and fun.  A thing of beauty and … my one thing today on this latest Thanksgiving Eve.