Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961
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- Ava Gardner
- Betty Jane Baker
- Martha Vickers
- Elaine Devry
- Barbara Ann Thomason
- Marge Lane
- Carolyn Hockett
- Jan Chamberlin
Rooney was instantly smitten with Gardner and pursued her doggedly, according to his autobiography, Life is Too Short. But Rooney’s compulsive habits – among them working, gambling, and philandering – caused the marriage to implode after a little over a year.
Rooney once describedBaker – then Betty Jane Phillips – as “totally oblivious to anything going on outside our home,” a statement which may have led to his second recollection of their marriage: “We just weren’t compatibly compatible.” Rooney had two children with Phillips after they wed in 1944. By 1949, they were divorced, and just eight days lat...
Martha Vickers worked as a model in Hollywood, eventually earning her highest-profile role in The Big Sleepalongside Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. In 1949, she and Rooney married; the couple had a son, Teddy, a year later. They divorced in 1951.
Rooney met Devry in 1952 while she was practicing her golf swing at a Hollywood driving range. They married that same year, though left each other in 1958 after each falling in love with different people. “Living with Mickey is no bed of roses,” she said of their marriage in 1967. “Six wives can’t all be wrong.”
Rooney met Thomason at a nightclub in 1958, while still married to Devry, and the two began an affair that ended when Thomason discovered she was pregnant and demanded he leave Devry. They married in Mexico in 1958, though the wedding wasn’t recognized in the U.S. until 1959. In 1963, Thomason discovered Rooney was having an affair; she started one...
Rooney met Lane – a close friend of Thomason’s – while they were both mourning her death, and true to form, promptly entered into a relationship with her. They were married for only 100 days. In the aforementioned PEOPLE interview, Rooney, when mentioning his marriage to Lane, said, “I think that was her name, anyway.”
Presumably because Rooney had not yet had a Vegas marriage, he married Carolyn Hockett at Las Vegas’s County Courthouse Wedding Chapel in May 1969. He was 48 at the time; she was 25. In 1970, they had a child, Janelle Rooney. They divorced in 1975.
In 1974, Chamberlin was working with Mickey Rooney, Jr., then a professional country musician. Eventually, she was introduced to Mickey Rooney Sr., and despite the 18-year age difference, the pair hit it off. They married in 1978, and though their union certainly weathered its share of Rooney’s foibles – like brandishing a picture of Jan at her thi...
Apr 8, 2014 · April 7, 2014 at 8:59pm EDT. WENN.com. The world has lost an icon of the silent film era with the passing of Mickey Rooney at age 93, but acting wasn’t his only legacy. We take a look at the...
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Aug 16, 2019 · Aug 16, 2019 07:11 A.M. A legend in his own right, Mickey Rooney stood out both for his impressive 89 years of acting, but also for his eight marriages to beautiful Hollywood woman and their children. Advertisement. Born on September 23, 1920, Mickey’s acting career started at the age of six. Seventeen years later, when Mickey became a box ...
Oct 23, 2023 · The Many Wives of Film Star Mickey Rooney. Zhanna Slor October 23, 2023. Comments. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. It’s no secret that Mickey Rooney, known for such iconic Hollywood films as It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Breakfast at Tiffany’s and one of the last survivors of the silent film era, was girl crazy.
Apr 8, 2014 · Over his 93 years, Mickey Rooney married eight times: divorcing six, widowed by one and estranged from the last. Take a look through the actor's complicated love life.
Nov 26, 2018 · ADVERTISEMENT. 32 Sweet Photographs of Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner During Their Short Marriage, 1942-43. November 26, 2018 1940s, celebrity & famous people, dating & love, life & culture, marriage & wedding, portraits. Rooney was married eight times, with six of the marriages ending in divorce.
