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
Ronan Rooney in men's singles and teams. This time, his wife, Rena McCarron Rooney, took part in women's table tennis, and they are believed to be the only married couple competing in the London Paralympics. Ronan Rooney Ronan Rooney (born March 27, 1960) is an Irish Paralympic athlete in table tennis who has competed in six Paralympic Games. Born in Louth, Ireland in 1960, he became disabled after falling off a motorbike aged 18. Formerly he was a track and field athlete who won Bronze in the men's marathon 1B at the 1984 Summer Paralympics. From 1988 onwards he has switched to