My Mother Was Nuts
By Penny Marshall
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hardcover, 9780547892627, 352pp.)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc, MP3 CD, MP3 CD
Categories: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General, Women
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From her humble roots in the Bronx to Laverne and Shirley and her unlikely ascent in Hollywood, the beloved actor and director tells the story of her incredible life.
Penny Marshall is an actress, producer, and director. After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley. A ratings success, the show ran from 1976 until 1983, and Marshall received three Golden Globe award nominations for her performance. She went on to direct films such as Big (1988), the first film directed by a woman to gross in excess of $100 million at the U.S. box office, Awakenings (1990), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, and A League of Their Own (1992). In more recent years, she has produced Cinderella Man (2005) and Bewitched (2005), as well as episodes of According to Jim (2009).
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