The Nine Lives of Mickey Rooney [1st Ed, 1986]

Stein & Day Pub, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. 1986 FIRST EDITION hardcover with dust jacket. UNREAD COPY with unmarked pages, square text block, firm binding. Jacket shows minor shelf rubbing only (no tears). This is NOT an ex-library book. This remains a very good, sturdy, collectible first edition copy! "Mickey Rooney's facility for getting out of tight spots has been exceeded only by his facility for getting into them. His career is a string of comebacks that makes Muhammad Ali seem a piker. Mickey went from number one box-office star in the world at eighteen to bit parts in beach movies at forty-eight. 'It's not all that easy to find roles for a five-foot-three-inch man who's beyond the age of Andy Hardy,' said one director. In his private life, Mickey survived eight marriages (including one to Ava Gardner), a sometime fondness for the sauce, and an overfondness for betting on the ponies that has cost him several fortunes as well as a court declaration of bankruptcy. The book follows Mickey Rooney's roller-coaster career from his first appearance on a burlesque stage at fifteen months to his memorable teenage performance as Puck in Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM to his late smash hit in SUGAR BABIES and his recent embrace of born-again Christianity. A privileged insight into Mickey's life and career, it is written by a man who's known Mickey ever since they were kids together in Hollywood, Groucho's son Arthur Marx.