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Norman "Chubby" Chaney
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Actor Born: January 18, 1918 in Baltimore, MD Death: May 29, 1936 in Baltimore, MD Biography:Twenty thousand boys had reportedly entered the contest to replace "Joe Cobb" as "Our Gang"'s resident fat kid. The year was 1929, and clocking in at 113 pounds, Baltimore's "Norman "Chubby" Chaney" emerged as the winner. Unlike Cobb, whose weight always remained somewhat proportional, the shorter "Chaney" was plain obese, and even worse, seemed to resent that fact. The screenwriters at Hal Roach Studios didn't help matters by constantly casting him as a hopelessly lovesick would-be Lothario. He made 18 shorts before his ever-increasing weight made him a target of pity rather than mirth. Completely retiring from show business in 1932, "Chaney", whose weight eventually escalated to a life-threatening 300 pounds, passed away four years later from the glandular condition that had caused his obesity in the first place. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
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