Mickey Rooney was an actor famous for being young before he was famous for being old. He was famous for epitomizing an era when it was perfectly acceptable to cast a Caucasian actor to portray a fiendish Asian stereotype. And he was certainly famous for keeping pace with Elizabeth Taylor in the marriage department (eight betrothals but, unlike Liz, who wed Richard Burton twice, Rooney enjoyed the full eight spouses).
This image of the 5-foot-3 (he said) Rooney is, in fact, far more apropos than the photo accompanying the obituary of Patrick McGoohan in the Chron and many other periodicals back in 2009.
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