Flashback: A Knife-Throwing Mother Brings Her Family Into the Act

Flashback: A Knife-Throwing Mother Brings Her Family Into the Act

Louella Gallagher is not the prototypical mother of the 1950s. Her daughters Connie Ann, age 5, and Colleena Sue, age 2.5, serve as props in a knife-throwing act that would be considered a bit too risky by today's standards.

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