Patricia Anne "Patty" Maloney is an American actress with dwarfism. She was born in Perkinsville, New York. She stands 3 feet 11 inches and weighs 60 pounds . Maloney is best known as Honk from Far Out Space Nuts, as Lumpy from The Star Wars Holiday Special, and as Darla Hood from the animated TV series version of The Little Rascals. Maloney began her show business career at age 3, performing on Broadway. At the age of 7, she moved with her family to Winter Park, a suburb of Orlando, Florida. When Edith Royal first opened her studio in Winter Park, Maloney became a featured dancer. She... attended Park Avenue High School and graduated from St. James High School. While in high school she spent one summer traveling with a carnival and, later, one year with Ringling Brothers Circus. It was not until she joined the Nate Eagle Troupe that she became aware that she could indeed lead a truly cosmopolitan life — and her family suddenly realized she was an adult. Here she grasped the many nuances of entertaining, learning to use make-up, to dress and to hobnob with high society and government officials.
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