Mickey was a very fine actor. He was never better than in the 1943 film "The Human Comedy". My favorite Mickey Rooney movie, the film features Rooney as a teenage boy in a small town during World War II. His older brother is off to war leaving him to care for his widowed mother and younger brother. He works as a telegram delivery boy after school to help support the family and has to deliver messages from the War Department that nobody wants to receive. Its a picture about small town life in an America that really doesn't exist anymore, where everybody knows each other and no one locks their doors. Seems kind of outdated today but Rooney is really good in it.
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