Mickey Rooney has only been in television shows.
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 . Boys Town is a 1938 biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan 's work with a group of underprivileged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named `` Boys Town '' . 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 .