Song of Mother Asking God to Help Rase Her Baby Boy

American actor (1920–2014)

Mickey Rooney
Rooney in 1945
Built-in	Joseph Yule Jr. (1920-09-23)September 23, 1920 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	April 6, 2014(2014-04-06) (anile 93) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Occupation	Actor producer radio entertainer vaudevillian
Years agile	1922–2014
Notable work	Filmography
Height	five ft 1 in (155 cm) – 5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
Spouse(s)	Ava Gardner ​ ​ (m. 1942; div. 1943)​ Betty Jane Phillips ​ ​ (m. 1944; div. 1949)​ Martha Vickers ​ ​ (m. 1949; div. 1951)​ Elaine Devry ​ ​ (1000. 1952; div. 1958)​ Barbara Ann Thomson ​ ​ (m. 1958; died 1966)​ Marge Lane ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1967)​ Carolyn Hockett ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1975)​ January Chamberlin ​ (m. 1978)​
Children	9, including Tim, Michael, Teddy and Mickey Jr.
Parent(s)	Joe Yule (male parent)
Website	mickeyrooney.com

Mickey Rooney (built-in Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, producer, radio entertainer and vaudevillian. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until his death, he appeared in more 300 films, and was amidst the concluding surviving stars of the silent-film era.^[one] He was the meridian box-part allure from 1939 to 1941,^[2] and one of the all-time-paid actors of that era.^[3] At the height of a career marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the office of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized mainstream America's cocky-paradigm.

At the peak of his career between ages 15 and 25, he made 43 films, and was 1 of MGM's most consistently successful actors. A versatile performer, he became a celebrated grapheme actor later on in his career. Laurence Olivier one time said he considered Rooney "the best there has ever been".^[3] Clarence Brown, who directed him in two of his earliest dramatic roles in National Velvet and The Human Comedy, said Rooney was "the closest thing to a genius" with whom he had always worked.^[4] He won a Golden Globe Award in 1982 and an Emmy Award in the same year for the title role in a television picture Bill and was awarded Academy Honorary Accolade in 1982.

Rooney starting time performed in vaudeville as a child role player, and fabricated his film debut at the age of 6 years. He played the championship grapheme in the popular "Mickey McGuire" series of 78 short films, from age 7 to 13. At 14 and 15, he played Puck in the play and subsequent film adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At the age of 16 he began playing Andy Hardy, and gained offset recognition at 17 as Whitey Marsh in Boys Boondocks. At only 19, Mickey Rooney became the 2nd-youngest Best Actor in a Leading Function nominee and the first teenager to be nominated for an Academy Honor for his performance as Mickey Moran in 1939 film adaptation of coming-of-age Broadway musical Babes in Artillery; he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Honour in 1939.^[v] Rooney received his second Academy Award nomination in the same category for his role as Homer Macauley in The Human Comedy.

Drafted into the war machine during Earth War 2, Rooney served nearly ii years entertaining over two million troops on stage and radio, and was awarded a Statuary Star for performing in combat zones. Returning in 1945, he was likewise quondam for juvenile roles, but besides brusk at v ft 2 in (157 cm) for most adult roles, and was unable to go as many starring roles. However, numerous depression-upkeep, simply critically well-received films noir had Rooney playing the lead during this menstruation and the 1950s. Rooney's popularity was renewed with well-received supporting roles in films such as The Bold and the Brave (1956), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Earth (1963), Pete'due south Dragon (1977), and The Black Stallion (1979). For his roles in The Assuming and the Dauntless and The Blackness Stallion, Rooney received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1957 and 1980 respectively. In the early 1980s, he returned to Broadway in Sugar Babies, a office that earned him nominations for Tony Honor and Drama Desk Laurels for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, and over again became a celebrated star. He made hundreds of appearances on TV, including dramas, variety programs, and talk shows.

Life and acting career [edit]

1920–1923: Early life and acting background [edit]

Rooney was born Joseph Yule Jr.^[vi] in the Brooklyn civic of New York City on September 23, 1920, the only child of Nellie W. Carter and Joe Yule.^[vii] His female parent was an American former chorus girl and burlesque performer from Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, while his father was a Scottish-born vaudevillian, who had emigrated to New York from Glasgow with his family unit at the age of three months.^[three] They lived in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.^[viii] When Rooney was built-in, his parents were appearing together in a Brooklyn product of A Gaiety Girl. He later recounted in his memoirs that he began performing at the historic period of 17 months as role of his parents' routine, wearing a specially tailored tuxedo.^{[nine] [10] [11]}

1924–1926: Career ancestry as a child histrion [edit]

Rooney's parents separated when he was iv years old in 1924, and he and his mother moved to Hollywood the following year. He made his first film appearance at age six in 1926, in the curt Not to be Trusted.^{[three] [12]} Rooney got bit parts in films such as The Animal of the City (1932) and The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933), which immune him to work alongside stars such as Joel McCrea, Colleen Moore, Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Wayne, and Jean Harlow. He enrolled in the Hollywood Professional Schoolhouse and later attended Fairfax High Schoolhouse.^[13]

1927–1936: Mickey McGuire [edit]

His mother saw an advertisement for a child to play the office of "Mickey McGuire" in a serial of short films.^[fourteen] Rooney got the role and became "Mickey" for 78 of the films, running from 1927 to 1936, starting with Mickey's Circus (1927), his outset starring role.^{[a] [b]} During this period, he too briefly voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Walter Lantz Productions.^[18] He made other films in his adolescence, including several more of the McGuire films. At age fourteen, he played the part of Puck in the Warner Bros. all-star adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1935. Critic David Thomson hailed his performance as "one of the cinema's most arresting pieces of magic". Rooney and then moved to MGM, where he befriended Judy Garland, with whom he began making a series of musicals that propelled both of them to distinction.^{[19] [twenty] [21]}

1937–1944: Andy Hardy, Boys Boondocks, Babes in Arms, and Hollywood stardom [edit]

In 1937, Rooney was selected to portray Andy Hardy in A Family unit Affair, which MGM had planned as a B-flick.^[14] Rooney provided comic relief every bit the son of Judge James K. Hardy, portrayed by Lionel Barrymore (although former silent-flick leading human being Lewis Stone played the role of Judge Hardy in subsequent pictures). The picture show was an unexpected success, and led to xiii more Andy Hardy films between 1937 and 1946, and a final film in 1958.

Co-ordinate to author Barry Monush, MGM wanted the Andy Hardy films to entreatment to all family members. Rooney's graphic symbol portrayed a typical "broken-hearted, hyperactive, girl-crazy teenager", and he presently became the unintended primary star of the films. Although some critics depict the serial of films as "sweet, overly idealized, and pretty much interchangeable," their ultimate success was considering they gave viewers a "comforting portrait of small-town America that seemed suited for the times", with Rooney instilling "a lasting epitome of what every parent wished their teen could be like".^[22]

Backside the scenes, still, Rooney was like the "hyperactive girl-crazy teenager" he portrayed on the screen. Wallace Beery, his co-star in Stablemates, described him as a "brat", but a "fine actor".^[23] MGM caput Louis B. Mayer constitute it necessary to manage Rooney's public image, explains historian Jane Ellen Wayne:

Mayer naturally tried to keep all his child actors in line, like any male parent effigy. Later on one such episode, Mickey Rooney replied, "I won't exercise it. You lot're asking the impossible." Mayer then grabbed immature Rooney by his lapels and said, "Mind to me! I don't care what yous exercise in individual. Merely don't do information technology in public. In public, behave. Your fans expect it. You're Andy Hardy! Y'all're the United States! You're the Stars and Stripes. Behave yourself! You lot're a symbol!" Mickey nodded. "I'll be good, Mr. Mayer. I promise y'all that." Mayer let go of his lapels, "All correct," he said.^[24]

L years afterwards, Rooney realized in retrospect that these early confrontations with Mayer were necessary for him to develop into a leading film star: "Everybody butted heads with him, but he listened and you listened. Then you'd come to an agreement you could both live with. ... He visited the sets, he gave people talks ... What he wanted was something that was American, presented in a cosmopolitan way."^[25]

In 1937, Rooney made his first film alongside Judy Garland with Thoroughbreds Don't Cry.^[26] Garland and Rooney became close friends as they co-starred in future films and became a successful song-and-dance team. Audiences delighted in seeing the "playful interactions between the two stars showcase a wonderful chemistry".^[27] Along with three of the Andy Hardy films, where she portrayed a girl attracted to Andy, they appeared together in a string of successful musicals, including coming-of-age musical Babes in Arms (1939). For his performance as Mickey Moran, 19-year-sometime Mickey Rooney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Player in a Leading Role, becoming the 2d-youngest Best Actor nominee. During an interview in the 1992 documentary movie MGM: When the Lion Roars, Rooney describes their friendship:^[28]

Judy and I were so close we could've come from the same womb. We weren't like brothers or sisters but there was no love affair there; there was more than a dearest affair. Information technology's very, very difficult to explain the depths of our love for each other. It was and then special. It was a forever love. Judy, as we speak, has not passed away. She'south always with me in every heartbeat of my body.

In 1937, Rooney received top billing as Shockey Carter in Hoosier Schoolboy, only his quantum role as a dramatic role player came in 1938's Boys Town opposite Spencer Tracy every bit Father Flanagan, who runs a abode for wayward and homeless boys. 18-year-old Rooney and 17-year-erstwhile Deanna Durbin were awarded a special Juvenile Academy Award in 1939, for "pregnant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth".^{[29] [30]} Wayne describes one of the "most famous scenes" in the moving-picture show, where tough young Rooney is playing poker with a cigarette in his mouth, his chapeau is cocked, and his feet are upwards on the table. "Tracy grabs him past the lapels, throws the cigarette away, and pushes him into a chair. 'That'south better,' he tells Mickey."^[24] Louis B. Mayer said Boys Town was his favorite film during his years at MGM.^[29]

The popularity of his films made Rooney the biggest box-part draw in 1939, 1940, and 1941.^[31] For their roles in Boys Boondocks, Rooney and Tracy won offset and second place in the Moving-picture show Herald 1940 National Poll of Exhibitors, based on the box-office appeal of 200 players. Boys' Life mag wrote, "Congratulations to Messrs. Rooney and Tracy! Besides to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer we extend a hearty thanks for their very considerable part in this outstanding achievement."^[32] Actor Laurence Olivier one time called Rooney "the greatest role player of them all".^[33]

A major star in the early 1940s, he appeared on the embrace of Time in 1940, timed to coincide with the release of Young Tom Edison;^[34] the cover story began:^[35]

Hollywood's No. 1 box function bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a movie without mugging or overacting it. His name (causeless) was Mickey Rooney, and to a big part of the more clear U.S. cinema audition, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat.

During his long and illustrious career, Rooney besides worked with many of the screen's female stars, including Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet (1944) and Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)."^[36] With his appearing with Marilyn Monroe in The Fireball (1950) and with Grace Kelly in The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), Rooney is the simply actor e'er co-starring with four of the greatest female screen legends e'er. Rooney'southward "bumptiousness and boyish amuse" as an actor developed more "smoothness and shine" over the years, writes biographer Scott Eyman. The fact that Rooney fully enjoyed his life as an actor played a large part in those changes:

You weren't going to work, yous were going to have fun. It was home, everybody was cohesive; it was family unit. One yr I made nine pictures; I had to go from one set to some other. It was similar I was on a conveyor chugalug. You did not read a script and say, "I guess I'll exercise it." You lot did information technology. They had people that knew the kind of stories that were suited to you. Information technology was a conveyor belt that made motility pictures.^[37]

Clarence Brownish, who directed Rooney in his Oscar-nominated operation in The Man Comedy (1943) and again in National Velvet (1944), enjoyed working with Rooney in films:

Mickey Rooney is the closest thing to a genius that I e'er worked with. At that place was Chaplin, so there was Rooney. The petty bounder could do no wrong in my book ... All y'all had to do with him was rehearse it once.^[38]

Earth War Ii and career slump [edit]

Rooney entertains American troops in Germany, April 1945

Rooney feeds the troops for the USO in 1952

In June 1944, Rooney was inducted into the United States Ground forces, where^[39] he served more than 21 months (until shortly later the end of Globe War Ii) entertaining the troops in America and Europe in Special Services. He spent function of the time as a radio personality on the American Forces Network, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for entertaining troops in combat zones. In addition to the Bronze Star, Rooney too received the Regular army Adept Deport Medal, American Entrada Medal, European-African-Centre Eastern Campaign Medal, and Globe State of war Ii Victory Medal, for his military service.^{[40] [ self-published source ] [41] [42]}

Rooney'southward career slumped afterward his return to civilian life. He was at present an developed with a height of only five anxiety 2 inches (1.57 1000)^[43] (5 feet 1 inch (i.55 m) co-ordinate to his 1942 draft registration ^[44]) and he could no longer play the role of a teenager, but he also lacked the stature of virtually leading men. He appeared in a number of films, including Words and Music in 1948, which paired him for the last time with Garland on pic (he appeared with her on one episode every bit a invitee on The Judy Garland Show). He briefly starred in a CBS radio series, Shorty Bong, in the summer of 1948, and reprised his role as Andy Hardy, with most of the original cast, in a syndicated radio version of The Hardy Family unit in 1949 and 1950 (repeated on Mutual during 1952).^[45]

In 1949 Diverseness reported that Rooney had renegotiated his deal with MGM. He agreed to make 1 moving picture a year for them for five years at $25,000 a movie (his fee until then had been $100,000, but Rooney wanted to enter independent product.) Rooney claimed he was unhappy with the billing MGM gave him for Words and Music,^[46] just his career was in a slump, and his New York Times obituary reported, "at one bespeak in 1950, the only job he could get was touring Southern states with the Hadacol Caravan," promoting a patent medicine that was later forced off the market.^[vi]

His showtime television series, The Mickey Rooney Bear witness, also known as Hey, Mulligan, was created by Blake Edwards with Rooney every bit his own producer, and appeared on NBC television for 32 episodes from Baronial 1954 to June 1955.^[47] In 1951, he made his directorial debut with My True Story, starring Helen Walker.^[48] Rooney besides starred equally a ragingly egomaniacal tv set comedian, loosely based on Red Buttons, in the alive ninety-infinitesimal television set drama The Comedian, in the Playhouse 90 series on the evening of Valentine'due south Day in 1957, and as himself in a 1960 revue called The Musical Revue of 1959, based on the 1929 film The Hollywood Revue of 1929.

In 1958, Rooney joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in hosting an episode of NBC's brusque-lived Order Oasis comedy and variety prove. In 1960, Rooney directed and starred in The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, an ambitious comedy known for its multiple flashbacks and many cameos. In the 1960s, Rooney returned to theatrical entertainment. He nonetheless accepted film roles in undistinguished films, merely occasionally appeared in better works, such as Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).

He portrayed a Japanese character, Mr. Yunioshi, in the 1961 moving-picture show version of Truman Capote'due south novella Breakfast at Tiffany's. His functioning was criticized by some in subsequent years as a racist caricature.^{[49] [l]} Rooney subsequently said that he would not accept taken the role if he had known it would offend people.^[51]

In 1961, Rooney appeared on television's What's My Line?, and mentioned that he had already started enrolling students in the Mickey Rooney School of Entertainment. His school venture never came to fruition. This was a period of professional distress for Rooney; as a childhood friend, director Richard Quine put it: "Permit's confront information technology. It wasn't all that easy to find roles for a 5-foot-3 man who'd passed the age of Andy Hardy."^[52] In 1962, despite earning $12 million to appointment, his debts had forced him into filing for bankruptcy.^{[53] [54]}

In 1966, Rooney was working on the film Deadfall Bay in the Philippines when his wife Barbara Ann Thomason—a old model and aspiring actress who had won 17 direct dazzler contests in Southern California—was found dead in her bed. Her lover, Milos Milos—who was one of Rooney'south actor-friends—was found expressionless beside her. Detectives ruled it a murder-suicide, which was committed with Rooney's own gun.^[55]

Francis Ford Coppola had bought the rights to make The Black Stallion (1979), and when casting it, he chosen Rooney and asked him if he thought he could play a jockey. Rooney replied saying, "Gee, I don't know. I never played a jockey before." He was kidding, he said, since he had played a jockey in at least three past films, including Down the Stretch, Thoroughbreds Don't Weep, and National Velvet.^[56] The film garnered excellent reviews and earned $xl million in its first run, which gave Coppola's struggling studio, American Zoetrope, a major heave. It as well gave Rooney newfound recognition, forth with an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Histrion.^[57]

In 1983, the Academy of Move Motion picture Arts and Sciences gave Rooney their Academy Honorary Laurels for his lifetime of achievement.^{[58] [59] [60]}

Character roles and Broadway comeback [edit]

Television roles [edit]

Rooney and James Dunn in the television special Mr. Broadway (1957)

Guest stars for the 1961 premiere episode of The Dick Powell Testify, "Who Killed Julie Greer?". Standing, from left: Ronald Reagan, Nick Adams, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Rooney, Edgar Bergen, Jack Carson, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Thompson, Dean Jones. Seated, from left, Carolyn Jones and Dick Powell.

In add-on to his movie roles, Rooney made numerous guest-starring roles as a television character actor for nearly six decades, showtime with an episode of Celanese Theatre. The role led to other roles on such idiot box series as Schlitz Playhouse,^[61] Playhouse 90,^[61] Producers' Showcase, Alcoa Theatre,^[61] The Soldiers, Wagon Train, Full general Electric Theater,^[62] Hennesey,^[63] The Dick Powell Theatre,^[64] Arrest and Trial (1964),^[64] Burke's Law (1963),^[61] Combat! (1964),^[64] The Fugitive, Bob Promise Presents the Chrysler Theatre, The Jean Arthur Show (1966),^[64] The Name of the Game (1970),^[61] Dan Baronial (1970),^[65] Night Gallery (1970),^[65] The Love Boat,^[66] Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1995),^[65] Murder, She Wrote (1992),^[65] and The Golden Girls (1988)^[65] amidst many others.

In 1961, he guest-starred in the xiii-week James Franciscus adventure–drama CBS goggle box series The Investigators.^[64] In 1962, he was cast every bit himself in the episode "The Acme Banana" of the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys,^[61] starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams.

In 1963, he entered CBS's The Twilight Zone,^[67] giving a one-man functioning in the episode "The Last Night of a Jockey" (1963).^[64] Also in 1963, in 'The Chase' for Suspense Theater,^[64] he played the sadistic sheriff hunting the young surfer played by James Caan. In 1964, he launched some other half-hour sitcom, Mickey. The story line had "Mickey" operating a resort hotel in Southern California. His ain son Tim Rooney appeared as his character'south teenaged son on this programme, and Emmaline Henry starred equally Rooney'south wife. The program lasted for 17 episodes.^[52]

When Norman Lear was developing All in the Family in 1970, he wanted Rooney for the lead role of Archie Bunker.^[68] Rooney turned Lear down, and the role eventually went to Carroll O'Connor.

Rooney garnered a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Serial or a Special for his role in 1981'southward Pecker. Playing opposite Dennis Quaid, Rooney's graphic symbol was a mentally handicapped man attempting to live on his own after leaving an establishment. His acting quality in the moving picture has been favorably compared to other actors who took on similar roles, including Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, and Tom Hanks.^[69] He reprised his part in 1983's Nib: On His Own, earning an Emmy nomination for the plough.

Rooney did voice acting from fourth dimension to fourth dimension. He provided the voice of Santa Claus in iv terminate-motility blithe Christmas Television receiver specials: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Boondocks (1970), The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974),^[70] Rudolph and Frosty'due south Christmas in July (1979)^[70] and A Miser Brothers' Christmas (2008). In 1995, he appeared as himself on The Simpsons episode "Radioactive Man".^[65]

Afterwards starring in one unsuccessful Television set series and turning down an offering for a huge TV series, Rooney, at present seventy, starred in the Family unit Channel'south The Adventures of the Black Stallion, where he reprised his part as Henry Dailey in the film of the aforementioned proper name, xi years earlier.^[66] The series ran for three years and was an international hit.^[71]

Rooney appeared in television commercials for Garden Land Life Insurance Company in 2002.^[72]

Broadway shows [edit]

A major turning point came in 1979, when Rooney made his Broadway debut in the acclaimed stage play Sugar Babies, a musical revue tribute to the burlesque era co-starring former MGM dancing star Ann Miller. Aljean Harmetz noted, "Mr. Rooney fought over every skit and argued over every vocal and about always got things washed his way. The testify opened on Broadway on Oct viii, 1979, to rave reviews, and this time he did not throw success away.^[vi] Rooney and Miller performed the show one,208 times in New York and so toured with it for 5 years, including eight months in London.^[73] Co-star Miller recalls that Rooney "never missed a operation or a gamble to extemporaneous or read the lines the aforementioned way twice, if he fifty-fifty stuck to the script".^[53] Biographer Alvin Marill states, "at 59, Mickey Rooney was reincarnated equally a baggy-pants comedian—dorsum as a top assistant in prove biz in his belated Broadway debut."^[53] For his performance, Rooney received nominations for Tony Award and Drama Desk-bound Honour for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical.

Following this, he toured every bit Pseudelous in Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Matter Happened on the Mode to the Forum.^[74] In the 1990s, he returned to Broadway for the final months of Will Rogers Follies, playing the ghost of Will's father.^[75] On television, he starred in the brusque-lived sitcom, One of the Boys,^[76] forth with two unfamiliar young stars, Dana Carvey and Nathan Lane, in 1982.

He toured Canada in a dinner theatre product of The Mind with the Naughty Man in the mid-1990s.^[77] He played The Sorcerer in a stage production of The Wizard of Oz with Eartha Kitt at Madison Square Garden.^[78] Kitt was later replaced past Jo Anne Worley.

Mickey Rooney speaks at the Pentagon in 2000 during a ceremony honoring the USO

Concluding years [edit]

Rooney wrote a memoir titled Life is Too Short, published past Villard Books in 1991. A Library Journal review said, "From title to the concluding line, 'I'll accept a curt bier', Rooney'due south self-deprecating humour powers this book." He wrote a novel about a child star, published in 1994, The Search For Sunny Skies.^[79] On November 10, 2000, he starred in the Disney Channel original movie Phantom of the Megaplex.

Despite the millions of dollars that he earned over the years, such as his $65,000-a-week earnings from Sugar Babies, Rooney was plagued by financial problems late in life. His longtime gambling habit caused him to "take chances away his fortune again and again". He alleged defalcation for the 2nd time in 1996 and described himself as "bankrupt" in 2005. He kept performing on stage and in the movies, just his personal property was valued at but $xviii,000 when he died in 2014.^[eighty]

Rooney and his married woman Jan toured the land in 2005 through 2011 in a musical revue called Let's Put on a Show. Vanity Fair called it "a homespun affair total of domestic dog-eared jokes" that featured Rooney singing George Gershwin songs.^[2]

In 2006, Rooney played Gus in Night at the Museum.^{[81] [82]} He returned to play the role once again in the sequel Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian in 2009, in a scene that was deleted from the final picture.^[81]

On May 26, 2007, Rooney was 1000 marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. He made his British pantomime debut, playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella, at the Sunderland Empire Theatre over the 2007 Christmas flow,^{[83] [84]} a role he reprised at Bristol Hippodrome in 2008 and at the Milton Keynes theatre in 2009.^[85]

In 2011, Rooney fabricated a cameo appearance in The Muppets, and in 2014, at age 93, six weeks before his death, he reprised his role equally Gus in Night at the Museum: Surreptitious of the Tomb, which was dedicated to Robin Williams, who as well died that year, and to him.^[86] Although confined to a wheelchair, he was described by managing director Shawn Levy as "energetic and and so pleased to exist there. He was only happy to be invited to the party."^[87]

An October 2015 article in The Hollywood Reporter maintained that Rooney was often abused and financially depleted by his closest relatives in the last years of his life. The article said that it was clear that "ane of the biggest stars of all fourth dimension, who remained aloft longer than anyone in Hollywood history, was in the end brought down past those closest to him. He died humiliated and betrayed, nearly bankrupt, and oft cleaved."^[three] Rooney suffered from bipolar disorder and had attempted suicide ii or iii times over the years, with resulting hospitalizations reported every bit "nervous breakdowns".^[3]

Personal life [edit]

Rooney and his wife January at a Beverly Hills military concert in 2000

At the fourth dimension of his death (April six, 2014), Rooney was married to Jan Chamberlin Rooney, although they had separated in June 2012.^[88] He had nine children and 2 stepchildren, equally well every bit 19 grandchildren and several bang-up-grandchildren.^{[89] [90]} Rooney had been addicted to sleeping pills, and overcame the addiction in 2000 when he was in his late 70s.^[2] In 1997, he was arrested on suspicion of chirapsia his wife, Jan, just the charges were dropped due to lack of show.^[91]

In the belatedly 1970s, Rooney became a built-in-once again Christian and was a fan of Pat Robertson.^[92]

On February 16, 2011, Rooney was granted a temporary restraining social club against his stepson Christopher Aber and Aber's wife Christina, and they were ordered to stay 100 yards from Rooney, his stepson Marking Rooney, and Mark's wife Charlene.^{[93] [94]} Rooney claimed that he was a victim of elder abuse.^[95] On March ii, 2011, Rooney appeared before a special U.S. Senate commission that was because legislation to curb elder abuse, testifying about the abuse he claimed to have suffered at the hands of family unit members.^[93] In 2011, all of Rooney'due south finances were permanently handed over to a conservator,^[96] who called Rooney "completely competent".^[95]

In April 2011, the temporary restraining order that Rooney was previously granted was replaced by a confidential settlement between Rooney and Aber.^[97] Aber and Jan Rooney denied all the allegations.^{[98] [99]}

In May 2013, Rooney sold his abode of many years, reportedly for $1.3 million, and split the gain with his wife, Jan.^{[12] [100]}

Marriages [edit]

Rooney was married eight times, with six of the marriages catastrophe in divorce. In 1942, he married his offset wife, actress Ava Gardner, who at that time was still an obscure teenaged starlet. They divorced the following year, partly because he had plain been unfaithful.^[iii] While stationed in the military in Alabama in 1944, Rooney met and married Betty Jane Phillips, who afterwards became a singer under the name B. J. Baker. They had two sons together. This spousal relationship ended in divorce after he returned from Europe at the stop of World State of war II. His marriage to actress Martha Vickers in 1949 produced one son, but concluded in divorce in 1951. He married actress Elaine Mahnken in 1952, and they divorced in 1958.^{[89] [xc]}

In 1958, Rooney married model and actress Barbara Ann Thomason (stage name Carolyn Mitchell). She was murdered in 1966 by stuntman and actor Milos Milos, who then shot himself. Thomason and Milos had an thing while Rooney was traveling, and police theorized that Milos had shot her after she wanted to end it.^[101] Rooney then married Barbara's best friend, Marge Lane, though the marriage lasted just 100 days. He was married to Carolyn Hockett from 1969 to 1975.^[89] In 1978, he married his 8th and final married woman, Jan Chamberlin. Their marriage lasted until his decease, a total of 34 years (longer than his vii previous unions combined). Nevertheless, they separated in 2012.^[88]

Wife	Years	Children
Ava Gardner	1942–43
Betty Jane Rase (née Phillips)	1944–49	2, Mickey Rooney, Jr. and Tim Rooney
Martha Vickers	1949–51	1, Teddy [102]
Elaine Devry (a.k.a.: Elaine Davis)	1952–58
Barbara Ann Thomason (a.k.a.: Tara Thomas, Carolyn Mitchell)	1958–66	four, Kelly Ann, Kerry, Michael Joseph Rooney and Kimmy Sue
Marge Lane	1966–67
Carolyn Hockett	1969–75	2, Jimmy and Jonelle
Jan Chamberlin	1978–2014 (separated, June 2012)[88]

Expiry [edit]

Grave and Crypt of Mickey Rooney at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Rooney died of natural causes (including complications from diabetes) in Studio Urban center on April 6, 2014,^[103] at the age of 93.^[104] A group of family members and friends, including Mickey Rourke, held a memorial service on April xviii. A private funeral, organized by another set of family members, was held at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where he was buried, on April 19. His eight surviving children said in a statement that they were barred from seeing Rooney during his final years.^{[105] [106] [107]}

At his death, Vanity Off-white chosen Rooney "the original Hollywood train wreck".^[2] Despite earning millions during his career, he had to file for bankruptcy in 1962 due to mismanagement of his finances. In his later years, Rooney had entrusted his finances to his stepson, who funneled Rooney's earnings to pay for his ain lavish lifestyle. His millions in earnings had dwindled to an manor that was valued at only $eighteen,000. He died attributable medical bills and back taxes, and contributions were solicited from the public.^{[108] [109]}

Legacy [edit]

Rooney was one of the terminal surviving actors of the silent-pic era. His film career spanned 88 years, from 1926 to 2014, continuing until shortly before his death. During his peak years from the late 1930s to the early 1940s, Rooney was among the top box-office stars in the Usa.^[110]

He made 43 films between the age of 15 and 25. Amid those, his role every bit Andy Hardy became one of "Hollywood's all-time-loved characters," with Marlon Brando calling him "the best thespian in films".^[22]

"There was nothing he couldn't exercise," said actress Margaret O'Brien.^[110] MGM boss Louis B. Mayer treated him like a son and saw in Rooney "the embodiment of the amiable American boy who stands for family, braggadocio, and sentiment," wrote critic and author David Thomson.^[111]

By the time Rooney was 20, his consistent portrayals of characters with youth and energy suggested that his futurity success was unlimited. Thomson besides explains that Rooney's characters were able to cover a broad range of emotional types, and gives three examples where "Rooney is not just an player of genius, only an artist able to maintain a stylized commentary on the demon impulse of the small, belligerent man:"^[111]

Rooney'south Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is truly inhuman, i of cinema'due south most arresting pieces of magic. ... His toughie in Boys Boondocks (1938) struts and bullies similar something out of a nightmare and and then comes make clean in a grotesque simply utterly frank outburst of sentimentality in which he aspires to the boy community ... His part equally Infant Face Nelson (1957), the manic, destructive response of the runt confronting a pig club.^[111]

By the end of the 1940s, Rooney'south pic characters were no longer in demand, and his career went downhill. "In 1938," he said, "I starred in eight pictures. In 1948 and 1949 together, I starred in just three."^[60] Nevertheless, film historian Jeanine Basinger notes that although his career "reached the heights and plunged to the depths, Rooney kept on working and growing, the mark of a professional." Some of the films that reinvigorated his popularity were Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and The Black Stallion (1979). In the early 1980s, he returned to Broadway in Sugar Babies, and "constitute himself once more dorsum on peak".^[60]

Basinger tries to encapsulate Rooney'south career:

Rooney's arable talent, like his film image, might seem like a metaphor for America: a seemingly endless supply of natural resources that could never dry up, just which, it turned out, could be ruined by excessive use and corruption, past arrogance or power, and which had to be advisedly tended to be returned to total capacity. From child star to grapheme role player, from picture show shorts to television specials, and from films to Broadway, Rooney ultimately did prove he could do it all, do it well, and keep on doing it. His is a unique career, both for its versatility and its longevity.^[60]

Acting credits and accolades [edit]

1 of the most indelible performers in bear witness business history, Rooney appeared in over 300 films in 88 years.^[1]

Come across as well [edit]

• List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees – Youngest nominees for Best Player in a Leading Role
• List of actors with Academy Laurels nominations
• List of actors with 2 or more Academy Honor nominations in interim categories
• Listing of members of the American Legion

Notes [edit]

1. ^ The motion-picture show was long believed lost, but in 2014 was reported found in the netherlands.^[15]
2. ^ The Mickey McGuire films were adapted from the Toonerville Trolley comic strip, which contained a character named Mickey McGuire. Joe Yule briefly became Mickey McGuire legally to "trump an attempted copyright lawsuit and then the film producer Larry Darmour would non have to pay the comic-strip writers royalties". His mother also changed her surname to McGuire in an attempt to bolster the argument, but the film producers lost. The litigation settlement awarded damages to the owners of the drawing grapheme, compelling the 12-year-one-time actor to refrain from calling himself Mickey McGuire on- and off-screen.^{[16] [17]}
   During an break in the series in 1932, Mrs. Yule made plans to take her son on a 10-calendar week vaudeville tour equally McGuire, and Fob sued successfully to stop him from using the name. Mrs. Yule suggested the stage proper noun of Mickey Looney for her comedian son. He altered this to Rooney, which did non borrow upon the copyright of Warner Bros.' animation serial called Looney Tunes.^[14]

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