Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced by fourth wife Elaine last month in California, sawed-off (5 ft. 3 in.) Cinemugger Mickey (The Last Mile) Rooney, 38, whose matrimonial misadventures have set him back roughly $1,000,000 so far, sprang a few surprises that set even jaded old Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper...
Divorced. Mickey Rooney. 38, pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) Hollywoodian admirer of taller girls (his first three wives: Ava Gardner, 5 ft. 5½ in.; Betty Jane Rase, 5 ft. 7½ in.; Martha Vickers, 5 ft. 4 in.); by Elaine Mahnken, 29, 5 ft. 5 in. ex-model; after six years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...between 1893 and 1898. My recollection is that Hawaii was annexed, then dis-annexed, due to differences of opinion and understanding between Liliuokalani and President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Commissioner "Paramount" Blount. The latter acted too hastily. The Republicans made much of this to the tune of Little Annie Rooney...
...Alcoa Theatre (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Repeat of Eddie, the cash-or-kill monologue about a small-time grifter (Mickey Rooney) trying to raise money to pay off a gambling debt...
...Andrew Hardy and circulate a petition to rezone the land to "keep Carvel just as it is." Despondent, sure to lose his job, Andy chokes up a sopping little farewell speech before a packed crowd at the city council meeting, then slopes off round-shouldered to pack his bags. Rooney fans who have to ask what happens next should be charged double admission. When it's over, instead of flashing the usual THE END on the screen, the film's producers own up to the obvious: TO BE CONTINUED...