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
Dan Rooney Ireland and returned to Pittsburgh. He would eventually be replaced in June 2014 by Kevin O'Malley. Rooney was married to his wife Patricia Reagan for sixty-five years. They first met in the office of the Steelers where she was working, and got married soon after. The couple had nine children together, although he predeceased two of his daughters. Rooney was also the maternal great-uncle of actresses Kate Mara and her sister Rooney Mara. In 2008, he surprised many with his public endorsement of Barack Obama for president. The family had traditionally been very private on politics, even being rumored to