Mickey Rooney with his first wife Ava Gardner, in 1942 - Getty Hollywood, 1942. Mickey Rooney was the biggest star in the world. He’d spent three consecutive years as the most successful performer at ...

LOS ANGELES -- Mickey Rooney's approach to life was simple: "Let's put on a show!" He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage and in his extravagant personal life. A ...

The performance was among Rooney's finest. "Mickey Rooney, to me, is the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with," ''Human Comedy" director Clarence Brown once said. Brown also directed Rooney ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Mickey Rooney, a Hollywood legend whose career spanned more than 80 years, has died. He was 93. Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said that Rooney was with his family ...

Leap Day, 1940. The city: Los Angeles. The place: the Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub, where Hollywood’s biggest names were gathered for the 12th annual Academy Awards ceremony. Among the ...

Actor Mickey Rooney came before Congress this week to tell a terrible tale of elder abuse. The 90-year-old star, who appeared in classics like “The Black Stallion,” told members of the Special Senate ...

LOS ANGELES, April 9 (Reuters) - The estranged wife of actor Mickey Rooney and his estate are locked in a legal tussle over the remains of the late Hollywood movie star, who left an estate of only $18 ...

Mickey Rooney, whose long Hollywood career began as a child star in the 1930s, has died at the age of 93, U.S. media reports. Rooney had been ill for some time, U.S. entertainment media reported. The ...

Ninety-year-old actor testifies before senate committee on aging. March 2, 2011— -- Mickey Rooney spoke out against elder abuse before a senate committee on aging today. The 90-year-old actor has ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Veteran actor Mickey Rooney on Wednesday urged elderly victims of abuse to speak up to anyone who will listen and described to a U.S. Senate panel his own suffering at ...