Mickey Rooney Biography

- He once co-owned the Mickey Rooney Tabas Hotel in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

- According to one Hollywood rumour, Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Rooney.

- Judy Garland stated that Rooney was "the world's greatest talent."

- Mickey wrote his first novel entitled ‘The Search for Sonny Skies’ in 1994.

- In January 2005 he made headlines when he starred in a commercial that was deemed ‘indecent’ to show during an ad break of the Super Bowl. The ad featured a brief flash of Rooney's bottom.

- Mickey is five foot tall.

- Infamous gangster John Dillinger was shot and killed outside a theatre after watching Mickey Rooney in the film ‘Manhattan Melodrama’.

- Laurence Olivier called Rooney "the single best film actor America ever produced."