...Melissa Phruksachart This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly...

.... At 57", she towers over Mickey Rooney in her debut film, Andy Hardy's Double Life. Later, critics would comment on her "large and immaculate loveliness" or call her a "robust little star." Calling Williams a "big" woman doesn't necessarily blur gender boundaries...

... revue with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller, paid homage to the baggy- pants comics, slap-stick, double entendres and strip tease of burlesque as it existed in its last moments as a viable entertainment form-the 1930s and 1940s. It is burlesque as a museum piece, compiled ap- propriately enough...

... her stardom. Along with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, Durbin was one of the biggest box of ce earn- ers in the late s, surprising executives who had yet to exploit the potential of adolescence. Variety noted the oddity of featuring someone of Durbin’s age: “It is not going to be easy...