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Dark n Stormy Knight

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1. I understand the concept that actors are not
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 01:03 AM
Sep 2020

the characters they play.

Still, I was shocked to learn how very different Mickey was from Andy Hardy and similar characters he played. If his biographers are to be believed, in real life he was a foul-mouthed, rage-filled, heavy-drinking womanizer who collected for mobsters to defray some of his the massive gambling debts he owed them.

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