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449: No Such Thing As the Blancmange Olympics

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Biggest Child Star of All Time

She was the biggest child star that's ever been. Carly Culkin is the only other one I could think of. Between the ages of three and ten, she was in 29 films. In 1935, her salary was $2,500 a week. That was a lot of money in those days. She got 135,000 gifts on her 8th birthday from fans around the world. Her house was stuffed with iron glass - it sounds like her life just sounds insane.

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