- Born
- Birth nameSharon Gail Cunniff
- Nicknames
- Mercy Mee
- Merci Rooney
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Merci Montello appeared as the Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 1972 under the name of "Mercy Rooney". The New Jersey native, who was born in the Garden State on June 21, 1950, acquired her new surname as the wife of Mickey Rooney Jr., whom she had met when she was a "Bunny" at the Los Angeles Playboy Club (or "Hutch"). The blonde-haired, blue-eyed Meci sported a classic 36-23-36 figure, which is a winning hand on both Coasts. Before she gained her chance to grab at the Big Brass Ring as a bunny at the L.A. Hutch, Merci was self-employed as a decorator, seamstress and dancer.
On the back of her gate-fold in the December issue, Mercy listed her ambition as "To become an actress". Unfortunately, Merci Montello's career in pictures was distinguished only by the fact that she had a different name in each picture she appeared in: "Mercy Mee" in Space Thing (1968), "Merci Montello" in Erika's Hot Summer (1971), and -- cashing in on her Playboy notoriety -- "Merci Rooney" in "Bloody Friday" (1974). In the latter movie, a.k.a. The Single Girls (1973), she was shot in the stomach with a crossbow while gamboling in the woods. The body of the voluptuous Playmate was buried under leaves and straw by her slayer, though Mercy's hand was left sticking out of the improvised grave to provide a plot device. With that, she waved good-bye to her career and the limelight.
She divorced Mickey Rooney Jr., who is now a born-again Christian and a minister who regales his audiences by testifying about the folly of "Life in the Fast Lane".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood
- SpousesBoyd Berlind(December 10, 1972 - May 1975) (1 child)Mickey Rooney Jr.(April 13, 1969 - October 1971) (divorced)
- Playboy Playmate of the Month December 1972
- As "Mercy Rooney," the December 1972 Playmate of the Month, she listed Helen Keller as the person she admired most and Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" and "60 Minutes" as her favorite TV programs.
- At the time she was the Playmate of the Month (December 1972), her hobbies were painting, sewing, upholstering furniture and playing sports.
- On her Playmate questionnaire, Mercy said that if she had the time, she would have loved to have built "an entire room from scratch, including everything in it."
- Mercy Rooney appeared on the cover of the March 1973 Playboy magazine.
- I'm versatile and energetic. I'm also in love with life and creative.
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