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
Mickey Kuhn Mickey Kuhn Theodore Matthew Michael Kuhn Jr. (born 21 September 1932), better known as Mickey Kuhn, is an American former child actor who was very famous in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. His most remembered role was in "Gone with the Wind" (1939), which received widespread critical acclaim. He also appeared in "Juarez" (1939), "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945), "Red River" (1948), and "Broken Arrow" (1950). Born in Waukegan, Illinois of German descent, he started as a child actor in the 1930s and appeared opposite Conrad Nagel and Leslie Howard, amongst others. His first fame came in playing