Early Life
Clooney was born Nicholas Joseph Clooney in Maysville, Kentucky, the son of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Joseph Andrew Clooney. His father was of Irish and German descent and his mother was of Irish and English ancestry. While serving as a Corporal in the US Army, he was a disc jockey in the American Forces Network in Germany, hosting the shows Music in the Air and Melody-Go-Round. He then moved to California for a try at show business. When that did not work out, Clooney moved to Ohio, where he met Nina Warren when she was a contestant in a beauty pageant he was judging; they married in August 1959.
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