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DEBORAH KERR (September 30, 1921 — October 16, 2007) When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. You have higher standards of what's really good; you're fearful that you won't live up to what's expected of you. Watch Allie 's stunning tribute to Deborah Kerr :

GREER GARSON (Sep tember 29, 1904 — April 6, 1996) Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. Watch Sara 's wonderful tribute to Greer Garson :

Mickey Rooney, Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra in the early 1940s Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner were married between 1942 and 1943. Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were married from 1951 to 1957. This picture is a little bit awkward.

To celebrate Mickey Rooney's 95th birthday, this week on "Film Friday" I bring you one of his best-remembered films, wherein he gave one of the most endearing performances of his career. Incidentally, this is also the film that made Elizabeth Taylor a star.   Original release poster Directed by Clarence Brown, National Velvet (1944) tells the story of Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), a 12-year-old girl living in a small 1920s English town with her parents (Donald Crisp and Anne Revere) and her three siblings, Edwina (Angela Lansbury), Malvolia (Juanita Quigley) and Donald (Jackie Jenkins). While walking home from school one day, Velvet meets a mysterious young drifter named Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney), who has come to town in search of the Brown family after finding Mrs. Brown name and address in one of his deceased father's notebooks. As Velvet is talking to Mi, she sees a rambunctious horse being chased by its owner, Mr. Ede (Reginald Owen), and immediately...

MICKEY ROONEY (Se ptember 23, 1920 — April 6, 2014) You always pass failure on the way to success.