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Mini Bio. Carolyn Mitchell was born Barbara Ann Thomason on January 25, 1937 in Phoenix, Arizona, to Don and Helen Thomason. While attending Emerson Elementary School in Phoenix, she became known as the prettiest girl in Phoenix. Her family moved to Inglewood, California in 1951, a part of Los Angeles, a mecca for beautiful and ambitious young ...
- January 25, 1937
- January 31, 1966
Jul 29, 2016 · Barbara Thomason was a former model and actress who married Mickey Rooney in 1958 and became his fifth wife. She had a turbulent and violent relationship with Rooney, who was accused of killing her lover in 1966, and died in 2014. Read about her rise and fall in the entertainment industry and the headlines she made.
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In 1965, Milos began an affair with actress Barbara Ann Thomason (stage name Carolyn Mitchell) who was estranged from her husband Mickey Rooney. Milos and Thomason were found dead in Rooney's Los Angeles house in 1966.
Apr 27, 2014 · Barbara Thomason passed out at Mickey Rooney’s home in August 1958 after taking too many sleeping pills. They were married by the end of the year. Thomason accidentally took some pills, he...
- Ava Gardner. 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.
- Betty Jane Baker. Rooney once described Baker – 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.”
- Martha Vickers. Martha Vickers worked as a model in Hollywood, eventually earning her highest-profile role in The Big Sleep alongside Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
- Elaine Devry. 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.
Apr 6, 2019 · Her mother, aspiring actress Barbara Thomason and Mickey’s fifth wife, was shot to death at age 29 in 1966 by his friend, Milos Milosevic. The 24-year-old budding actor used the same gun to...
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Apr 8, 2014 · After his fourth failed marriage, Rooney was introduced to Barbara Ann Thomason at a nightclub. An actress who went by the stage name Carolyn Mitchell, she secretly eloped to Mexico with...
