 Braddock reports a dream of  dining at the Ritz with Mickey Rooney (I) (qv). Then only 13,  Mickey Rooney was in the film business but not a name to recognize  in Braddocks slum. He starred in a series of comedy shorts at the  time, but going by the name of Mickey McGuire. Only from the late  1930s through the 1940s would Mickey Rooney become a top star and  household name.