(Never liked Marshall or her silly show)
Listen here for a real singer..back when songs were great and women could sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9DFB0TM1h0
Posted on 12/18/2018 11:41:41 AM PST by NRx
Bronx-born Penny Marshall, who found ‘70s sitcom success on “Laverne and Shirley” before stepping behind the camera for Hollywood hits like “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” died Monday night at her California home. She was 75.
“Yes she did (die) … peacefully at her Hollywood Hills home,” said her publicist Michelle Bega. “She passed away from complications from diabetes.
Marshall’s triumphs as a director broke new ground in the male-dominated movie industry, and she became the first female director to score a $100 million gross with “Big” in 1988. She turned the financial trick again with “A League of Their Own” four years later.
But she directed only one feature film after 1996, and kept a low acting profile with cameo roles in films like “Get Shorty” and “Blonde Ambition.”
“Penny was a girl from the Bronx, who came out West, put a cursive ‘L’ on her sweater and transformed herself into a Hollywood success story,” said a statement from her family, referring to the monogrammed wardrobe of Marshall’s blue-collar protagonist Laverne De Fazio.
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#32 Used Cars.... Kurt Russell movie
Wow - another name to be added to TCM’s already depressingly long vignette on movie-business players who died in 2018 - and still two weeks to go......
One of my best buds has worked with her and her production team on projects off and on and is godparent to one of her grandchildren
Last time I was out there we stopped by her place but she was stuck in traffic and we didn’t stay long and missed her
Great view of Hollywood and LA
Reminded me of a house in Shampoo
He told me you can speak your mind around her....she’s a liberal but tolerates folks like us
Once she hears your accent she’ll assume correctly you’re alt right..lol
But I never met her....he just wanted me to see the view and her world class sports memorabilia collection
I liked her and her brothers movies as a rule
Anyhow....man 1950s Milwaukee seems farther away now
“Penny was a girl from the Bronx, who came out West, put a cursive ‘L’ on her sweater and transformed herself into a Hollywood success story,” said a statement from her family, referring to the monogrammed wardrobe of Marshall’s blue-collar protagonist Laverne De Fazio.”
From Wiki: “She was the daughter of Marjorie Marshall, a tap dance teacher, and Tony Marshall, a film director and producer. Her parents’ background in entertainment, along with her brother, Garry Marshall’s, background as a comedy writer and her sister’s background as a casting director and producer, gave rise to Marshall’s career in the industry. ”
OK.
Bingo.
Yeah that is a great movie. If it came out today I would see it even though DeNiro is in it, because unlike leftists like Judd Apatow, I don’t go full Nazi on people I disagree with politically. I don’t try to shut down their business and kick them out of town.
There’s no crying in baseball!
Yeah, well, there’s not supposed to be any ALCOHOL either, Mr. Team Manager, so there ya go! :)
Cool story.
Shampoo. What a movie. When I saw it as a kid it seemed a bit like a documentary lol.
I remember that she and Cindy Williams (Shirley) did a cover of Connie Francis’s hit “Sixteen Reasons” back in the 70’s when “Laverne and Shirley” was still on the air! They also appeared in “Happy Days” before “Laverne and Shirley” began!
When I was a little boy I had a crush on Laverne.
Then puberty hit and I hardly see her in reruns..
#20 Beware of The Big Head on Ork.
A really funny and talented woman who worked hard to achieve success, and did.
Thanks for the memories.
I forgot she directed that. I remember really wanting to see that.
I always loved Laverne & Shirley. Growing up in the 1980’s, we didn’t have a lot of channels. Back then, “basic” cable still only gave you about 13 channels. One of them was TBS Superstation. I used to watch Laverne & Shirley, Brady Bunch, and other shows (though I didn’t like Happy Days and Mork and Mindy then and still don’t today). It’s funny thinking back on it that I did notice their clothes were “funny” but yet it didn’t register that these shows were often approaching 20 years old when I was watching them. I didn’t pick up on the “time frames” of the shows. I was about 10 in the late 1980’s. I just thought they were funny. That’s true timeless humor.
Thanks Penny. RIP
Anyone who says there is no crying in baseball never met Joey Cora.
Or heard Lou Gehrig's farewell speech.
(Never liked Marshall or her silly show)
Listen here for a real singer..back when songs were great and women could sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9DFB0TM1h0
Yup.
She was only 75. I had no idea she was that young!
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