Mickey Rooney: 9 Wives

Actor Mickey Rooney and his wife, Jan, arrive at the 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Calif. on Feb. 22, 2009. Although Jan is the actor's ninth wife, the former child star has been married to her since 1978, longer than all his other marriages combined.

Rooney's first marriage was in 1942 to Hollywood actress Ava Gardner. It ended in divorce as did all his other marriages except the one to Barbara Ann Thompson, who was murdered in 1966.

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