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RIP Patty Maloney, 89. She was one of Hollywood’s most famous little person actors, and a talented singer and dancer. Maloney died Monday after a series of strokes. She had a fascinating life and career, beginning to perform in a carnival (upscale song-and-dance stuff) at 12, then spending a short stint with Ringling Brothers and dancing in New York (she was the subject of some Weegee photographs) for several years ahead of retiring to focus on her marriage. Her husband died in his 20s of cancer