According to Gore Vidal, "Tennessee Williams once told me that he considered Mickey Rooney the best actor in the history of the movies."

It was pure wartime, musical escapism when for their next M-G-M vehicle Mickey Rooney is sent to a small Southwestern school to forget girls. Only he meets Judy Garland, and…

The 1937 Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical BABES IN ARMS became the 1939 M-G-M film BABES IN ARMS, although curiously minus many of the Rodgers & Hart songs, most notably JOHNNY ONE…