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
Benny Rooney to manage Partick Thistle and Albion Rovers, before returning to his first club Celtic briefly as a coach. Benny has two children with wife Marion. His son Kevin is an actor, whilst his father Bob had been physiotherapist at Celtic in the successful Jock Stein managerial era at the club. Benny Rooney Benny Rooney (born 3 May 1943) is a Scottish former football player and manager. Rooney played for Celtic as a youth, but was allowed to sign for Dundee United on a free transfer in 1963. He was frequently relegated to United's reserve team, however, and he was eventually