Hollywood Superstar Mickey Rooney Dies at 93

The first customers, most of them pensioners, stand in a queue to enter a branch at National Bank of Greece headquarters in Athens, July 20, 2015.

Mickey Rooney is against the ropes as Spencer Tracy stands by him in this scene from the 1938 movie "Boys Town." 

Film actor Mickey Rooney celebrates his 21st birthday at a party in a Hollywood night club. Here he slices his birthday cake with (left to right) Louis B. Mayer, studio head; Mrs. Nell Pankey, his mother, and Miss Ava Gardner, Hollywood, California, Sept. 23, 1941.

Mickey Rooney, accompanied by Judy Garland and Ann Rutherford, arriving at the theater in an old Jalopy, New York City, August 17, 1941.

Mickey Rooney, 21, Movieland's No. 1 box office star, and Ava Gardner, 19, of Wilson, N.C., pose together shortly after the couple applied for a marriage license, in Santa Barbara, California, Jan. 5, 1942.



 

Hollywood's Mickey Rooney, visiting an army post, demonstrates his riding ability with one of the Fourth Field Artillery's famous mules, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Jan. 29, 1942. 

Actor, singer and dancer, Mickey Rooney, is shown in this undated photo.

Actor Mickey Rooney and his bride, actress Martha Vickers, smile happily as they walk down the aisle of a church shortly after their wedding ceremony, in North Hollywood, California, June 3, 1949.

Actor Mickey Rooney is shown in this file photo as G.I. Dooley in the 1956 Hollywood movie "The Bold and the Brave." 

Actor, singer and dancer Mickey Rooney, wearing spats and a pinstriped suit, performs a dance routine during a rehearsal for the television show "George M. Cohan Story" in Hollywood, California, March 19, 1957. 

Actor Mickey Rooney portrays "Pinnochio," in this September 1957 file photo. 

Mickey Rooney in the movie "The Private Lives of Adam & Eve." Within the Garden of Eden, Rooney plays Satan, Sept. 8, 1959.

Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney are surrounded by Sugar Babies from the Broadway musical comedy revue of the same name as they film a portion for the newest "I Love New York" commercial, New York City, Oct. 31, 1980. 

Actor Mickey Rooney, left, gets a hug from entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. backstage during intermission at New York's Mark Hellinger Theater where Rooney is appearing in the Broadway musical comedy revue "Sugar Babies," April 6, 1981. 

Mickey Rooney, second from right, joins cast members Dirk Lumbard, Eartha Kitt and Caroline McMahon, left to right, during the opening performance curtain call for "The Wizard of Oz" at New York's Madison Square Garden, May 1, 1998.

Actor Mickey Rooney waves to admirers as he departs the Regent Wall Street Hotel in New York, March 16, 2002, to attend the wedding of Liza Minnelli and David Gest.

Mickey Rooney kisses the hand of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during a garden party celebrating her state visit to the U.S. at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., May 7, 2007.

Actor Mickey Rooney attends the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 2, 2014, in West Hollywood, California.

Tourists from Australia stand by a memorial wreath on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of Hollywood legend, Mickey Rooney, on Vine Street, April 7, 2014, in Los Angeles.