How do you write a post about Mickey Rooney - a Hollywood legend whose career lasted 88 years?
You don't.
You throw something up there, and hope people fill in the gaps.
I just saw Rooney - astonishingly, in the middle of his career - in the 1972 "Night Gallery" episode "Rare Objects" (all my "Night Gallery" episodes link to the best Night Gallery blog on the internet, written by David Juhl).