Parlayed
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Billy Barty, who
parlayed
his short stature into a film career, plays one of the dwarfs.
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Notable too are Vanity, who should have
parlayed
this into a serious acting career given the unexpected ability she shows, and Kelly Preston, who's character will haunt you for a few days.
Donlin was a star player for the New York (baseball) Giants, who
parlayed
his ballplayer's love of night life and glamor into a film career.
He no more worshipped the devil than I do but he knew a potentially successful schtick when he saw it; a schtick he readily admits to having
parlayed
into 24 years of personal appearances, a mammoth "satanic" church, and hundreds of YouTube videos and BlogTalkRadio shows.
And while she was not required to call an election before May 1984, she could conceivably have
parlayed
her enormous popularity into another five-year term.
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