Editing Mickey Rooney (section)

== Early life and acting background ==
Rooney was born Ninnian Joseph Yule, Jr.,<ref name="Harmetz-obit-4-7-14" /> in [[Brooklyn]], New York on September 23, 1920, the only child of Nellie W. Carter and [[Joe Yule]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Joe Yule, 55, Father Of Mickey Rooney |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/03/31/archives/joe-yule-55-father-of-mickey-rooney.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 31, 1950 |url-access=subscription |access-date=May 28, 2018 |page=30}}</ref> His mother was an American former chorus girl and [[burlesque]] performer from [[Kansas City, Missouri]], while his father was a Scottish-born [[vaudeville|vaudevillian]], who had emigrated to New York from [[Glasgow]] with his family at the age of three months.<ref name="THR" /> They lived in the [[Greenpoint, Brooklyn|Greenpoint]] neighborhood of Brooklyn.<ref name="VOgle">{{cite news |last1=Ogle |first1=Vanessa |title=Authors share obscure history of Greenpoint |url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/38/13/24-historic-greenpoint-facts-2015-03-27-bk_38_13.html |access-date=February 22, 2019 |newspaper=Brooklyn Paper |date=March 24, 2015}}</ref> When Rooney was born, his parents were appearing together in a Brooklyn production of ''[[A Gaiety Girl]]''. He later recounted in his memoirs that he began performing at the age of 17 months as part of his parents' routine, wearing a specially tailored tuxedo.<ref name="LifeTooShort">{{cite book | last=Rooney | first=Mickey | title=Life is too short | url=https://archive.org/details/lifeistooshort00roon | url-access=registration | publisher=Villard Books | year=1991 | isbn=0-679-40195-4 | oclc=778940948 }} {{page needed|date=September 2019}}</ref><ref name=WaPo-obit>{{cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Adam|title=Mickey Rooney dies at 93|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mickey-rooney-dies-at-93/2014/04/07/dc332718-be67-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html|access-date=April 10, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Lertzman|Birnes|2015|pp=24-27}}