Claim: Mickey Rooney was in a movie.
Evidence: 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.
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.