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Mailing Contact: S. Wilbur Ave. One day he asked his mother if he sounded like Frank Sinatra. She replied, "No, not really" and offered him singing lessons. The singing lessons didn't make Mickey sound like Sinatra but they did lead unexpected leaps in his future career. Included with his vocal training sessions were free dance lessons which he stuck with long after his voice had changed.

By age 15, Mickey was hoofing his way into local nightclubs.

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Two years later, he seemed to be following in the footsteps of his matinee idol, Gene Kelly, as he hoofed his way into the Royal Theatre in New York. He beat out other kids to become the "swing boy" even though he performed 27 times in seven months for "The Boyfriend", starring year old Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut. He has starred in nearly thirty feature films and guest starred in more than 20 television shows and movies of the week.

He has also dazzled in such dramas as "The Victors" and "Lepke" with Tony Curtis and mesmerized audiences in the sci-fi adventure, Mysterious Island. In the late sixties, Michael even starred in his own top twenty television series "Occasional Wife". In the eighties, Michael starred in "Double Exposure" and took a behind the scenes role as the film's producer.

For the past few years, Michael has returned to his theatre roots as he has toured Europe and the United States with international and regional groups performing "Killjoy, Love Letters, and Allen Ackborn's "Absurd Person Singular. He plays tennis, jogs , and plays an occasional game of backgammon with close friends. He's still surprised and a little overwhelmed by the fact that old friends and fans still know him as Mickey.

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