Entertainer. Soft-shoe dancer whose theme song was "She's the Daughter of Rosie O'Grady." Buried alongside him is his father, also Pat Rooney, a 19th-Century dancer and comedian, and his mother, also a notable dancer. W.C. Fields recalled of Pat Junior: "If you didn't hear the taps, you would think he was floating over the stage."
Entertainer. Soft-shoe dancer whose theme song was "She's the Daughter of Rosie O'Grady." Buried alongside him is his father, also Pat Rooney, a 19th-Century dancer and comedian, and his mother, also a notable dancer. W.C. Fields recalled of Pat Junior: "If you didn't hear the taps, you would think he was floating over the stage."
Bio by: Joe Fodor
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