In Mickey Rooney's cleverly titled autobiography "Life Is Too Short," he claims to have met Walt Disney by chance at a Hollywood studio in the 1920s, where Disney told him that he was going to name his newly created cartoon mouse for him. Rooney enters the Guinness Book this year as the person with the longest stage/screen career -- 86 years. He first appeared on a vaudeville stage at the age of 15 months in 1922.

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