Mickey Rooney Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963), and "The Black Stallion" (1979). In the early 1980s, he returned to Broadway in "Sugar Babies" and again became a celebrated star. Rooney made hundreds of appearances on TV, including dramas, variety programs, and talk shows, and won an Emmy in 1982 plus a Golden Globe for his role in "Bill" (1981). At his death, "Vanity Fair" called him "the original Hollywood train wreck". He struggled with alcohol and pill addiction. Ava Gardner was his first wife, and he would go on to marry an additional seven times. Despite earning millions during his career, he
The Mickey Rooney Show coach. "The Mickey Rooney Show" was created by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine, also a former child actor and a long-time Rooney friend. The pair had previously co-written and directed Rooney's three feature films for Columbia Pictures, "Sound Off", "All Ashore" and "Drive a Crooked Road". The title first proposed for the series, "For the Love of Mike", was dropped because it had already been registered. Rooney's career had begun to decline when he left full-time employment at MGM in 1948. The situation comedy emerged at a needed time in his career. Some people, including Rooney himself, speculated that his