Hi, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher. This is Desi Jetican. Hi, we are back with part

two of Mickey Rooney. My sources for this episode are Life is Too Short by Mickey Rooney and the

Life in Times of Mickey Rooney by Richard A. Lertzman. This will be a three-parter, so we will get one

more episode next week.

Let's get into it.

Where we left off, Mickey has been dumped by Ava Gardner and her California raisin nipples.

He can't suck on them no more.

And despite Eddie Manix's efforts to bring them back together, Ava is done.

So Mickey throws himself into his work. Next up is a movie called Girl Crazy. It is co-starring his old pal Judy Garland. Now, Judy has also gotten married at this point

to a man named David Rose. It's not a good marriage. And she is going through it. She collapses several times while filming

Girl Crazy, and Mickey and his memoir contradicts the widely believed fact that MGM is the one

supplying her with drugs that will lead to her addiction and eventually a fatal overdose. He says

that it was all Judy. He's very victim-blamy. He says at that point,

she's old enough to make her own decisions. She can't blame the studio or her mom anymore,

and that he gets wanting to place blame elsewhere because Judy didn't want to be the one

killing beloved star Judy Garland either.

I mean, can't it be like both?

Can it be like... I agree.

He's an addict, but also the studios were giving her drugs from the time she was like a girl, like a young girl.

Right.

Like they started her on it.

Yeah.

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