December 1'1, 1939 By Private Lives of Hollywood Ed Sullivan Hollywood. pulled a major company out of HE FACT that Mickey Trio of Younqsters Who bankruptcy, which is a man- Rooney, Deanna Durbin, sized pull. Tand Shirley Temple are By the time you read this the UIN THIS country we don't the most prodigious Infants of Went Places in a Hurry Private Life of Deanna Durbin discourage murder either this town is no refiection on Jane may have assumed an entirely as a high art or just an Withers, Virginia Weidler, Baby of his precocity he Impersonated pose from the time he was old different complexion. It has outlet for high spirits. We pam- Sandy, G lor i a Jean, Bonita a midget who smoked cigars. enough to understand that there been believed commonly that per the crlminal as a maligned Granv1lle, Freddie Bartholomew, At that early stage of his career were tricks to all trades. when she arrived at her eight- member In good standing of our and other members of the Holly- he was listed on the program Deanna Durbin and Mickey eenth birthday Deanna would little community. wood Junior league. It just hap- credits as Sonny Yule. were schoolmates in real life. marry young Vaughn Paul. She II When his trial finally begins pens that 19-year-old Mickey, ••Not many kids of 19 can " Sure, Deanna and me-I mean was 18 years old on Dec. 4, so the jurors are selected with care 18-year-old Deanna, and lo.year- boast a layout like this, Mickey," Deanna and I went to the same as you read this she may be Mrs. to make sure that they would old Shirley, in the total forty- I teased. II Not many kids of 19," school at M-G-M," he points out. Vaughn Paul. excuse Gulteau for killing Gar- seven years the trio has put in he answered, smiling, II have "She'd send me a note: field and decorate Czolgosz for on this mortal coil, have busted been working for 15 years. •Mickey, where is that girl who • • • assassinating McKinley. Then all speed records in getting to Sure, I've got a lot of things sat in front of you yesterday?' Mickey Rooney was born in all of the witnesse are treated the places they now occupy. they haven't got, but they've I'd slip an answer back: 'They Brooklyn. Deanna Durbin was by the defense lawyers as 11they Master Rooney being the eld- had a lot of things I've missed. tested her for a part in the born in Winnipeg, Man. Shirley were grave robbers, liars, crim- est, and old age carrying with it I never had a chance to be a kid Dressler picture and released Temple, the third of the golden inals, adulterers, and malicious certain honors, I visited him first in the real sense of the word. her.' Get it, Ed? You go to a triangle, was born at Santa Mon- pests. in compiling data for the Private I'm not saying that in any sense school on a movie lot, but in- ica hospital, ten mlles west of of complaining, y'understand, stead of just being pupils the II The jury sits and stares at Lives series. Mickey lives with Hollywood. Her dad is a bank the defendant for days and days his parents on the small ranch but it's true. That's why I'm kids are always wondering about employe; her mother, judging while the criminal lawyer points he bought for them out in the going to school now at the Unf- the picture rOles they'll get or from the magnificent manner in out that the prosecution is ask- San Fernando valley. As neigh· versity of Southern California. miss. If you miss, then you stop which she has conducted her ing to murder the poor dear bors he has the Clark Gables, It's fun to be like other kids." going to school. Like Deanna child's career, is one of the most criminal just to grailly the pros- the Spencer Tracys, the Phil Actually he'll admit that he did. All of a sudden one day she amazing women in the country. ecutor's blood lust .. Experts show Harrises, Lum and Abner, the never has been like other young- wasn't sitting at her desk, and I Shirley is the only girl in a DEANNA DURBIN that the murderer's provocation Zeppo Marxes, the Andy De- sters. II So help me," he says, heard that she'd left the studio, family that had two sons before was so great it drove him insane vines, AI J olson, and other film II I've always wanted to be a big ,---------------------- just before he fired the shot. and radio celebs, and, like them, success from the time I was But he bounced back beautifully Mickey is a horse owner. He smoking a cigar as a midget in as soon as the dead man dropped. owns four of them. pictures. When I was 10 years He is acquitted, of course. When I arrived Mickey was old I wrote my first song. I fig· ••The courtroom rings with filing pictures in a regular ured maybe I could become a cheers and applause, the killer filing cabinet. He has k e p t great song writer and be suc- goes out a hero. But the guilty II st1lls " of every picture in cessful that way. A lot of writ- witnesses s n e a k away with which he ever appeared, and in ers have said it was just recently Where and WheDwere you bom f What d1aracter in hlstory 1m. blackened reputations. They are the files are st1lls from the I started writing songs, but it Deanna-WInnIpeg, Man., Dec. preues you moan 4, 1921. 8hirley-Abraham Lincoln. a pack of thwarted murderers. II Mickey McGuire" two-reelers goes back nine years. The name 8hirley-8anta M 0 n l c a, Cat, Mickey-Napoleon. He was a They are the Guilty Bystand- in which he appeared years ago. of it was' That's What Love W1ll There is no difficulty in recog- Do to You.' Only a lo.year-old April 23, 1929. little guy, like me. ers! " Mickey-Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. nizing him; the same shock of kid could think up a title like W hat IncldeDt Impreseed you Thus speaks Rupert Hughes' 23, 1920. poeatlyf hair, the same stub nose, the that, huh?" character, Dis t ric t Attorney What stage experience have you Shirley-Meeting the PresIdent. same genial impertinence of the From his 0 w n statements, Kirke McKeel, of Hugo Ryder'S hadf Mickey-Mother blackening my eyes, and the same square jaw then, you have a picture of an murder of Martin Yorke and at- Deanna-None. hair with shoe polish so I could tempt to murder Edith Ryder, line. On one shell of the room astonishing little boy, born of Shirley-None. tryout for the part of MIckey his w11e. Ryder shot and killed stands a ship's model. You as- vaudeville parents, setting his Mickey-Five years of vaudeville. McGuire. I got It! Martin Yorke at the Lakemead· sume that it must have been a mind on success when other boys What are your measuremeDtsf What Is your pet avenloD f ow Country club following one gift from some wealthy movie are playing marbles, and stick- Deanna-Height, 5 feet 4% Deanna-Insincere persons. of Hugo'S all- night drinking mogul. "No," says Mickey, II I ing resolutely to that ambition, Inches; weIght, 115 pounds. 8hirZey-5nakes. Mickey-School. bouts. The pretext was Yorke's bought It at Caliente for 75 come hell and high water. II I 8hirley - Height, 54 Inc h e s; attention to Edith Ryder. Hugo, cents." On another shelf stands used to watch those old-timers weight, ,~ pounds. Do you believe In dreamsf escaping, finally broke under the the 1938 gold statuette which he like a hawk and see the way Mickey-HeIght, 4 feet 11 Inches; OhOntB-No. strain and gave himself up to was awarded last year by the they played scenes," he recalls. weIght, 125 pounds. Do you believe In hunehellf Ohorus again-No. pollee, signing a full confession. Academy. II Then I'd go off by myself.and What Is your special diet for kee~ But already Murray Bentle, Mickey has been in pictures practice it that way." You stare In&'flU Do you have an inferiority com. pled brilliant young criminal lawyer, 15 years. He made his first pic- at him in amazement as he Deanna-None. 8hirley-I eat almost everything, Deanna-Not that I know of. was on his way td assume com- ture, II Not to Be Trusted," when paints the picture, quite casual- he was 4 years old, and because ly, of his own intensity of pur- especially vegetables and mUk. !dickey-No. mand of Hugo's defense. And MICKEY ROONEY Mickey-No diet. Do you experience stroD&,likes Bentle's friend and rival in both and I wondered to myself how she arrived on the scene. The What exerclae do you find most and dIllllkes immediately 0 POD love and law, McKeel, had begun meetln&'stran&'en f soon they'd get a new boy to sit boys are George Jr. and Jack, beDeflclalf the preliminary work of bring- Deanna-No. at my desk. There's no school- and while they're proud of their Deanna-5wImming. ing Hugo to trial.