Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Artie Shaw, 36, volatile bandleader and husband; by his fourth wife, Cinemactress Ava Gardner Shaw. 22, ex-Mrs. Mickey Rooney; after a year of Hollywood "marriage," no children; in Los Angeles...
...present members of the managerial system are as follows: William P. Hall '45 and Robert B. Palmer '47, Varsity Co-Managers; Thomas Fischer '46, Georges Gostenhoffer '46, Dwight Nishimura '49, Gary Rapmund '49, Edwin Rooney '46, and George Warren '46, Second Assistant (Sophomore) Managers
...Jackson Day dinner in Los Angeles last spring, at which the Committee was set to shower its kisses on Henry Wallace, its favorite son, Henry was preceded on the speaker's program by Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jerry Colonna, Burns & Allen, Edward G. Robinson, George Jessel, Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien, Frank Sinatra and Bette Davis. So, by the time hapless Henry got up to talk...
Artie Shaw, whose previous two wives were Lana Turner and Jerome Kern's daughter, Elizabeth, said that he was now separating from Mickey Rooney's exwife, Ava Gardner, after eight months of it. The bandsman explained: "We simply got on each other's nerves...
...modern jazz in general. The impression you gave was that all lovers of hot jazz are zoot-suited marijuana-smoking characters who stay up till the wee hours of the morning saying: "Zoot! You're as mellow as a cello, 'gator, let's have some mellow-rooney jive...