April 7, 2014
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The pint-sized Brooklyn native enjoyed nearly 9 decades in the spotlight, appearing in countless television programs, films and theater projects. As a child star, Rooney played Andy Hardy in more than 20 “Hardy Boys” films. As a teen, he rose to stardom in “Babe in Arms,” the 1939 smash co-starring Judy Garland. In 1940, he received an Oscar nomination for his role in “Strike Up the Band.”
Rooney shared the screen with cinema starlets Elizabeth Taylor in “National Velvet”(1944) and Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961). Most recently, Rooney appeared in Disney’s “The Muppets” alongside Jason Segel and Amy Adams in 2011.
Over the course of his lengthy career, Rooney gained 2 Golden Globes (1964, 1981), an Emmy (1981) and an Academy Juvenile Award. In 1983, he earned the Academy Honorary Award “in recognition of his 50 years of versatility in a variety of memorable film performances.”
Mickey Rooney was 93.
Harvey Korman, best known for his years of comedic genius on “The Carol Burnett Show” has died.
Korman died last Thursday at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm 4 months ago, his family said. He had undergone several major operations.
A natural second banana, Korman got his start appearing on “The Danny Kaye Show” in 1964. He joined the show in its second season and continued until it was canceled in 1967. That same year he became a cast member in the first season of “The Carol Burnett Show.” Korman won 4 Emmys for his outrageously funny years as a sidekick to Carol Burnett. His most memorable film role was as the outlandish Hedley Lamarr in Mel Brooks’ 1974 Western satire, “Blazing Saddles.”
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“A world without Harvey Korman — it’s a more serious world,” Brooks said of the news of Korman’s passing. “It was very dangerous for me to work with him because if our eyes met we’d crash to floor in comic ecstasy. It was comedy heaven to make Harvey Korman laugh.”
“He was a brilliant comedian and a brilliant father,” Korman’s daughter Kate said. “He had a very good sense of humor in real life. “
Harvey Korman was 81.
and comedic actor Harvey Korman.
Re: Rooney
And the "pint-sized Brooklyn native" was also married EIGHT times!…and to mostly glamorous women!?!…which I find amazing, considering how much *Star* value was placed on an actor's height (as much as his looks and talent) back in those days.
Re: Korman
Some of the funniest skits I've ever seen were on the Carol Burnett Show…lol. And Korman was certainly a key player in many, if not most of those skits.
Two extremely talented men. Both legends in their own right.
May they both R.I.P.