Mickey Rooney was in a film based on a work.
Babes in Arms is the 1939 American film version of the 1937 Broadway musical of the same name . Mickey Rooney . At 14 he played Puck in the play and later the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night 's Dream . 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 . National Velvet is a 1944 American Technicolor sports film directed by Clarence Brown and based on the novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold , published in 1935 .