The Mickey Rooney Show three stormy marriages by the early 1950s to actresses Ava Gardner, Martha Vickers, and Betty Jane Rase had marred his wholesome "Andy Hardy" image. (His fourth wife at the time, Elaine, was not an actress.) Although Rooney was thirty-four years old in 1954, his character Mickey Mulligan was only twenty-three. The series aired from August 28, 1954, to June 4, 1955 on Saturday evenings opposite the first half-hour of both CBS's "The Jackie Gleason Show" and ABC's "The Dotty Mack Show", a low-budget novelty program in which Dotty Mack lip-synced many of the works of other singers. Rooney's then-manager Maurice
Brian Rooney (actor) Brian Rooney (actor) Brian Rooney (Born 2 November 1972) is a Northern Irish-born Australian actor with film, television and stage credits. He is best known for his childhood television performances, in particular the part of Michael Winters in "G.P." He appeared in the children's television productions of "The Ferals" as "Leonard", and "Spellbinder" as "Alex Katsonis". Rooney first appeared on Australian Television on Network Channel 10 in Adelaide, South Australia on the Grundy Television show, "Pot Luck". He sang "Take My Breath Away", but lost to Roy Handley, who performed the Acker Bilk song, "Stranger on the Shore". Both Handley