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Mickey Rooney's Arteries Unclogged
The 80-year-old show-biz legend is resting comfortably after undergoing multiple bypass heart surgery Wednesday at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California. "It went fine," says Rooney's agent, Robert Malcolm. "He's doing well, and he'll be ready to work in six weeks."
Oddly enough, Rooney found out he had a clogged artery while prepping to be the spokesman for Inside Track, a new imaging technology used to locate potential trouble. The company had him go in for an angiogram Wednesday morning, and he decided to have surgery that afternoon.
"He knew nothing about it," Malcolm said. "He was going to do some publicity for this company, and they said, 'Why don't we check you out?' One artery was totally clogged...it was unexpected."
Suffice to say, Rooney will remain the spokesman for Inside Track. "It saved his life," Malcolm said.
Prior to his surgery Wednesday, Rooney told Variety columnist Army Archerd that he and his (eighth) wife, Jan, will be back on the road in February for their One Man--One Wife show. Rooney said he just wanted to get the surgery over with so the pair could get back to work.
Born Joe Yule Jr. to vaudeville-acting parents, Rooney shot to fame as a child star in the 1930s in the Andy Hardy series. His string of "let's-put-on-a-show" musicals with pal Judy Garland made them the top box-office tandem of the early '40s, and he headlined such classics as National Velvet and Boys Town before his post-kid career tanked in the '50s. He later reinvented himself on TV, the stage and in nightclubs and eventually found adult success in projects like Bill, The Black Stallion and Broadway's Sugar Babies.
This isn't the first time Rooney has faced last-minute surgery during the holidays. The veteran showman was touring in Australia last Thanksgiving when he was hospitalized in Sydney for a perforated colon. The surgery, characterized as a minor procedure, was successful.
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