2007-03-23 02:58:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
It's the other way around
2007-03-23 03:01:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mickey Rooney Mickey Mouse
2016-12-18 06:31:44 · answer #2 · answered by gnegy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Wikipedia:
Entering the movie business in 1926, he made his name as the title character in the Mickey McGuire shorts. These were a series of more than 40 silent, two-reel comedies adapted from the Toonerville Trolley comic strip, in which he starred through 1936. For a time he billed himself as Mickey McGuire, but legally changed his name to Mickey Rooney in 1932. Also during this period he met Walt Disney and later he would claim Disney had named Mickey Mouse after him. It is difficult to verify, and others have made similar claims, but Rooney takes credit for giving rising starlet Norma Jean Baker the stage name Marilyn Monroe (his co-star in the 1950 film The Fireball).
In 1934 he signed to MGM and was educated at the studio's School for Professional Children.
2007-03-23 03:04:10 · answer #3 · answered by babygyrl_nyc 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't fully substantiated, but Mickey Rooney himself claimed that he met Walt Disney and that Disney had named the mouse after him.
"Steamboat Willie" was Mickey Mouse's first outing in 1928, which would have made Rooney 8 years old at the time. Rooney was already in showbusiness at that time, so its plausible, but others have staked claims to the origins of the mouse's name too.
2007-03-23 03:07:55 · answer #4 · answered by Matt W 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mickey Mouse was originally named Mortimer, but Disney's wife suggested Mickey instead.
2007-03-23 03:04:20 · answer #5 · answered by Timothy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mickey Mouse was born before Mickey Rooney ! So the answer is no !
2007-03-23 03:01:15 · answer #6 · answered by IT'S JUST ME ! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Walt Disney wanted to name him Mortimer, but his wife talked him into naming him Mickey.
2007-03-23 03:25:42 · answer #7 · answered by Out on a limb returns 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Walt wanted to call him "mortimer", but his wife felt "Mickey" was a better name
2007-03-23 03:04:44 · answer #8 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so....didn't they just need an M name to go with mouse? Maybe they used a relatives name....
2007-03-23 03:02:16 · answer #9 · answered by missellie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Same shaped head.
2007-03-23 06:28:17 · answer #10 · answered by Yo Mum Mum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋