Patty Maloney Biographical Highlights

Date	Event
19?? March 17	A dwarf star is born: Patty Maloney begins life in Perkinsville, New York, the last of no fewer than three children. She has chosen not to specify her birth year. Seven years later, the family moves to a suburb of Orlando, Florida.
Mid-20th century	While developing her show business talents, Patty becomes a keypunch operator, and later a computer operator, at National Airlines in New York. There she meets Joseph Vitek, a 4-foot 8-inch printer from Chicago. After a long exchange of mail, Patty and Joseph are married in New York and move back to Chicago.
1970s	After the death of her husband and the loss of her premature baby, Patty reluctantly returns to show business. Her television series debut is on the Krofft brothers’ production Far Out Space Nuts. She also makes guest appearances on various prime-time television series.
1980s	Patty appears in a few feature films, starting with Under the Rainbow, and performs the voice of Darla Hood in the animated version of The Little Rascals, produced jointly by Hanna-Barbera and King World. In 1989 she, Billy Barty and two other male dwarf actors put on a syndicated TV sketch-comedy show, Short Ribbs.
1998 August 23	Patty attends the Krofft public auction with Billy Barty, founder of the Little People of America.
1999	Patty makes what appears to be her final large-screen appearance in Twin Falls Idaho.
2000 July 01	James Vipond establishes the Patty Maloney Appreciation Site (renamed PattyMaloney.info as of 2006 August 01).