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Apr 8, 2014 · During their marriage, Rooney adopted Hockett’s son, Jimmy, and the couple had one daughter, Jonelle. In 1975, Hockett filed for divorce on the basis of financial instability.
At the time they were wed, Rooney was 48 and Hockett, a secretary at Florida hotel, was 25. It was her second marriage; Rooney adopted her son from her first marriage, Jimmy, and in 1970 they...
Aug 16, 2019 · Carolyn and Mickey met at a nightclub after a car salesman, Bill Gardner introduced them, and the couple went on to have four children. The model gave birth to their first child and daughter together, Kelly Ann on September 13, 1959, followed by Kimmy Sue, Kerry Yule, and Michael Joseph.
Carolyn Hockett and Mickey Rooney are divorced after a marriage of 5 years. They had 1 child. They had a daughter named Jonelle age 54.
- 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...
Mickey Rooney. Actor: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. He first took the stage as a toddler in his parents vaudeville act at 17 months old. He made his first film appearance in 1926.
He was married to Carolyn Hockett from 1969 to 1975. [90] In 1978, he married his eighth and final wife, Jan Chamberlin. Their marriage lasted until his death, a total of 34 years (longer than his seven previous unions combined).
