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
Sidney Miller (actor) Sidney Miller (actor) Sidney L. Miller (born Sid Miller; October 22, 1916 – January 10, 2004) was an actor, director and songwriter. Sidney Miller's first acting role was in the movie "Penrod and Sam" (1931), although uncredited. In 1937, he made his radio debut on the "Jack Benny Program" episode "Christmas Shopping", as a man whom Benny mistakes for a department store floorwalker. The actor was also a regular performer on "Cavalcade of America", "Suspense" and "Nightbeat". Miller had a small, but memorable role as would-be wrestling announcer Mo Kahn in MGM's "Boys Town" (1938), alongside Mickey Rooney. He reprised