Mickey Rooney was in a movie.
Babes in Arms is the 1939 American film version of the 1937 Broadway musical of the same name . The film version stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland , and features Charles Winninger , Guy Kibbee , June Preisser , Grace Hayes and Betty Jaynes . Mickey Rooney . At nineteen he was the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar for his leading role in Babes in Arms , and he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1939 .