Penny Marshall

ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

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Penny Marshall was born Carole Penny Marshall on October 15, 1943 in the Bronx, New York. The Libra was 5' 6 1/2", with brown hair and green eyes. She was the daughter of Marjorie (Ward), a tap dance teacher, and Anthony "Tony" Marshall, an industrial film director. She was the younger sister of filmmakers Garry Marshall and Ronny Hallin. Her father was of Italian descent, originally surnamed "Masciarelli," and her mother was of German, Scottish, English, and Irish ancestry.Penny was known in her family as "the bad one"... because not only did she walk on the ledge of her family's apartment building, but she snuck into the movies as a child and even dated a guy named "Lefty." She attended a private girls' high school in New York and then went to the University of New Mexico for two and a half years. There, Penny got pregnant with daughter, Tracy Reiner, and soon after married the father, Michael Henry, in 1961. The couple divorced two years later in 1963. She worked as a secretary for awhile. Her film debut came from her brother Garry Marshall, who put her in the movie Adorablement vôtre (1968) with the talented Debbie Reynolds and James Garner. She also did a dandruff commercial with Farrah Fawcett - the casting people, of course, giving Farrah the part of the "beautiful girl" and Penny the part of the "plain girl." This only added to Penny's insecurity with her looks.She then married Rob Reiner on April 10, 1971, shortly after getting her big television break as Oscar Madison's secretary, Myrna Turner, on The Odd Couple (1970). She also played Mary Richards' neighbor, Paula Kovacks, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) for a couple of episodes. However, her Laverne et Shirley (1976) fame came when her brother needed two women to play "fast girls" who were friends of Arthur Fonzarelli and would date Fonzie and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days - Les jours heureux (1974). Penny had been working on miscellaneous writing projects ("My Country Tis Of Thee", a bicentennial spoof for Francis Ford Coppola and "Paper Hands" about the Salem Witch Trials) with writing partner Cindy Williams. Cindy happened to be a friend and ex-girlfriend of Henry Winkler's, so Garry asked the two to play the parts of these girls. The audience saw their wonderful chemistry, and loved them so much, a spin-off was created for them.Penny was well-known as Laverne DeFazio. She and Rob had divorced in 1980. The show ended three years later, half a year after Cindy Williams left the show due to pregnancy (her first baby, Emily, from now ex-husband Bill Hudson)... they wanted Williams to work the week she was supposed to deliver.Soon after, Penny began directing such films as Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Big (1988) and Une équipe hors du commun (1992). Her hobbies included needlepoint, jigsaw puzzles and antique shopping. She was best friends with actress Carrie Fisher and was godmother to Carrie's daughter, Billie.Penny died at 75 in Los Angeles, California. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ashley Phipps <LavernShrl@aol.com>

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Penny Marshall’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Penny Marshall on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1970 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Penny Marshall movies released per year from 1998 till 2020.

Top Genres

Penny Marshall works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 40% of Penny Marshall movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Penny Marshall worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Penny Marshall has worked on is 6.5.

6.5 / 10

Penny Marshall's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Biography,Drama,Romance
Cinderella Man (2005)

The story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.

8/10144 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Two men, a neat freak and a slob separated from their wives, have to live together despite their differences.

7.9/1030 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Biography,Drama
Awakenings (1990)

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

7.8/10121 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.

7.3/10128 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Fantasy
Big (1988)

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.

7.3/10104 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.

7.2/1055 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

The misadventures of two single women in the 1950s and '60s.

6.9/1030 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Biography,Comedy,Drama
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.

6.5/10132 min

Available in 12 platform(s).