Editing Mickey Rooney (section)

=== 1924–1926: Career beginnings as a child actor ===
Rooney's parents separated when he was four years old in 1924, and he and his mother moved to Hollywood the following year. He made his first film appearance at age six in 1926, in the short ''Not to be Trusted''.<ref name="THR">{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/mickey-rooneys-final-years-833325|title=Tears and Terror: The Disturbing Final Years of Mickey Rooney|first1=Gary|last1=Baum|first2=Scott|last2=Feinberg|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=October 21, 2015|access-date=October 22, 2015}}</ref><ref name=CNN-4-7-14>{{cite news|title=Legendary actor Mickey Rooney dies at 93|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/07/showbiz/mickey-rooney-obit|publisher=CNN|date=April 7, 2014|access-date=November 16, 2015|author=Duke, Alan|author2=Leopold, Todd}}</ref> Rooney got bit parts in films such as ''[[The Beast of the City]]'' (1932) and ''[[The Life of Jimmy Dolan]]'' (1933), which allowed him to work alongside stars such as [[Joel McCrea]], [[Colleen Moore]], [[Clark Gable]], [[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]], [[John Wayne]], and [[Jean Harlow]]. He enrolled in the [[Hollywood Professional School]] and later attended [[Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)|Fairfax High School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seeing-stars.com/Schools/HPS.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007103339/http://www.seeing-stars.com/schools/hps.shtml|url-status=dead|title=Hollywood Professional School|archive-date=October 7, 2008|website=seeing-stars.com}}</ref>