And then there was Arnold (Gary Coleman) — unmistakably the show-stealing star of Diff’rent Strokes. His angelic face with ...
Coleman could not grow past 4-feet, 8-inches tall, which hindered his popular character from growing alongside “Diff’rent ...
She trained all those people and made them stars.” The personal lives of the cast members on the original Diff'rent Strokes, in some ways, overshadowed the show's legacy in its immediate aftermath.