Actor Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood's brightest stars in the 1930s and 1940s, died Sunday in California. He was 93. The diminutive 5-foot, 2-inch Rooney began his acting career shortly after his first birthday, appearing on vaudeville stages with his parents. He was born Joseph Yule, Jr. on Sept. 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York.
He became a star in the 1920s when he began appearing in dozens of shorts based on the popular 'Mickey McGuire' comic strip, but he shot into Hollywood's stratosphere in his next film series, starting in more than a dozen 'Andy Hardy' films between 1937 and 1946. Mickey Rooney earned an Oscar nomination for his role in the World War II film 'The Bold and the Brave' in 1956.
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