It took just eleven weeks in the spring and summer of 1939 to rehearse, record and film Babes in Arms; almost autobiographically, Mickey and Judy played the children of vaudevillians. With their families in financial straights, the two teens were scripted to join forces with other friends to stage a fund-raising show in a Long Island barn; in best fictional tradition, their production ends up on Broadway. Other "babes" in the cast included Betty Janes and Douglas McPhail as a somewhat more stolid duo of legit singers and June Preisser as "Baby Rosalie" - a wicked take-off of a Shirley Temple-esque child star past her prime. Also seen were Sidney Miller (Rooney's songwriting partner and later a much-respected film and television director) and Johnny Sheffield, MGM's "son of Tarzan."

BONUS FEATURES:

• Introduction by Mickey Rooney
• Commentary by John Fricke
• "Our Gang" short Duel Personalities
• Classic Cartoon The Mad Maestro
• Newsreels
  
  • Judy Garland's Birthday
    
  • New York World's Fair 
  • March of Dimes Promo
• Radio Broadcasts
  • Gulf Screen Guild Theater Radio Broadcast 9/24/1939
  • Gulf Screen Guild Theater Radio Broadcast 11/09/1941
  • Good News Radio Show of 1938
• Leo is on the Air Radio Promo
• Theatrical Trailer