![]() ![]() ![]() As she portrays her life in her new memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, released last week , it seems that the famous lines from the Laverne & Shirley opening apply to her as well: Give her any chance, she’ll take it. ” ‘You were a miscarriage, but you were stubborn and held on.’ ” It was a backhanded compliment from Penny Marshall’s mother, yet it captures the perseverance that propelled her from playing outdoors in the Bronx to becoming a champion of physical comedy and the first female to direct a film grossing over $100 million - Bigin 1988.īut before ever shouting “Action!” and stumbling into America’s living rooms in her brother Garry Marshall’s TV shows The Odd Couple and Laverne & Shirley, Penny spent her days loathing every step at the Marjorie Marshall Dance School, where her mother, who was the dance school director, believed everyone should have a shot at the spotlight - ” ‘even the fat girls,’ she said.” And despite broken marriages, a cancer diagnosis and an overbite that “could open a Coke bottle,” Marshall did it. ![]()
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