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Updated, 3:45 Pm:Turner Classic Movies is expanding its salute to the legendary actor, who died Sunday at 93. The cable channel has announced a “multi-tiered” tribute to Mickey Rooney that includes adding an April 13 screening of his National Velvet — the 1944 hit that made Elizabeth Taylor a star — at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. The 9 Am screening at the Tcl Chinese Multiplex will be followed by a conversation with Rooney’s longtime friend Margaret O’Brien, an Oscar winner for Meet Me In St. Louis. The TCM festival starts tonight and runs through Sunday. Watch TCM’s brief montage of Rooney’s movies below. Related: A Mickey Rooney Appreciation From Pete Hammond Previously: Turner Classic Movies will honor Mickey Rooney with a 13-film marathon on Sunday, April 13. Rooney died Sunday at age 93 with more than 300 credits to his name and two honorary Oscars, becoming a household name with the dozen...

Legendary actor Mickey Rooney has died today at the age of 93. Born Joseph Yule Jr in Brooklyn on September 23, 1920, Rooney started in Hollywood young (17 months) and went on to become one of the biggest box office draws of the 1930s. Although he appeared in such classics as 1934′s Blind Date and with Judy Garland in 1939′s Babes In Arms – where he earned his first of four Oscar nominations — it was the more than a dozen Andy Hardy movies from MGM starting in 1938 that made Rooney an international star. With more than 300 credits to his name and two honorary Oscars — one in 1938 and another in 1982 — Rooney was working until the end, most recently on the feature Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde film which is set to be released this year. Rooney had been in ill health for the past several years, but was seen out and about as recently as a...