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
Michael Rooney Michael Rooney Michael Joseph Rooney (born April 2, 1962) is an American choreographer. He is the son of actor Mickey Rooney. Best known for his work on a number of music videos, Rooney has won MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography five times. Rooney is the son of actors Mickey Rooney and Barbara Ann Thomason (known professionally as Carolyn Mitchell). He is Mickey Rooney's sixth child and youngest biological son. His mother was Mickey Rooney's fifth wife. Michael has two older sisters, Kelly Ann (born September 13, 1959) and Kerry Yule Rooney (born December 30, 1960); and one younger