# Explain Mickey Rooney's Sex Appeal Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350 "2013-07-24T02:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/21 "2013-07-24T13:55:46Z")
Don’t forget he was a former child star, and the number one box office draw from 1939 to 1940. That’s two decades! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/22 "2013-07-24T14:45:49Z")
Ummm…[because](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mickey_Rooney_in_The_Human_Comedy_trailer.jpg) [he](http://theredlist.fr/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_men/1930/mickey_rooney/18-mickey_rooney_theredlist.jpg) [was](http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/MED/37/3703/4C2AF00Z/posters/the-big-wheel-mickey-rooney-1949.jpg) [cute](http://theredlist.fr/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_men/1930/mickey_rooney/19-mickey_rooney_theredlist.jpg)? What more answer are you looking for? I’d put a young Mickey Rooney on a list with Ryan Reynolds, Justin Bieber and Daniel Radcliffe as hotties of the “boyish charm” phenotype. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/23 "2013-07-24T14:51:45Z")
He was always dating the hottest young things in Hollywood also. That in itself makes him attractive to other young women. And he was getting those dates because he was a very successful movie star. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/24 "2013-07-24T16:34:18Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > John Goodman ranges between obese and morbidly obese and is a famous major hard living partier, but even at his fattest when he was on Roseanne he had a huge female fan base. Not just female… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/25 "2013-07-24T16:39:16Z")
> [@Hottius\_Maximus](#): > > Agreed that not everyone would be attracted to my list; my point was to list a diverse group of men that Mickey Rooney STILL would not seem to be a part of. I could have added Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Benicio Del Toro as well and I don’t believe Mickey Rooney would belong on that list either. I think you missed my point. There are people who are attracted to short, dumpy bald men, just as there are people who are attracted to tall, skinny, flat-chested women. And there are also lots of people who don’t care what the physical characteristics are. Whatever the characteristics, there’s a “list” that includes them. ---
**Author:** ![agnesnitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@agnesnitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agnesnitt)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/26 "2013-07-25T21:47:10Z")
From the NYT: > **[Stardust Memories (Published 2013)](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/books/review/my-lunches-with-orson-and-ava-gardner-the-secret-conversations.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)** > > Two new books unearth vintage conversations with two Hollywood legends: Ava Gardner and Orson Welles. To put it bluntly, he appeared to be a good lay. ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/27 "2013-07-31T03:07:19Z")
> [@colander](#): > > Wouldn’t it be easiest to get an answer about this from your sister? No. Read my post again: I said that my sister had crushes on Shaun Cassidy and Bobby Sherman but NOT Mickey Rooney so no, I don’t believe that she could answer this question., ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/28 "2013-07-31T03:35:53Z")
> [@Hottius\_Maximus](#): > > No. Read my post again Don’t hold your breath. ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350/29 "2013-07-31T03:43:39Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Don’t hold your breath. I’m not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-mickey-rooneys-sex-appeal-please/664350.md?page=1)