What a shame. The stories this man could tell. MGM, married EIGHT times (!), including to Ava Gardner; working with Judy Garland, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable ...
Here is Mickey Rooney (short clip) http://www.celebritynetworth.com/video/golden-globes-history-with-ronald-reagan-jayne-mansfield-517247891/
He apparently started in his parents' vaudeville show when he was 17 months old... during the Warren G Harding Administration!