Carole Penny Marshall was an American actress, director and producer.
30 Facts About Penny Marshall
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Penny Marshall's subsequent directing credits included Awakenings, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, A League of Their Own, Renaissance Man, The Preacher's Wife and Riding in Cars with Boys.
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Penny Marshall produced Cinderella Man and Bewitched, and directed episodes of the TV series According to Jim and United States of Tara.
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Carole Penny Marshall was born in the Bronx, New York City, on October 15,1943, to Marjorie Irene, a tap dance teacher who ran the Marjorie Marshall Dance School, and Anthony "Tony" Masciarelli, later Anthony Wallace Marshall, a director of industrial films and later a producer.
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Penny Marshall grew up at 3235 Grand Concourse, the Bronx, in a building which was the childhood home of Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren.
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Penny Marshall began her career as a tap dancer at age three, and later taught tap at her mother's dance school.
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Penny Marshall graduated from Walton High School, a public girls' high school in New York and then went to University of New Mexico for 2.
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Penny Marshall first appeared on a television commercial for Head and Shoulders beautifying shampoo.
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Penny Marshall was hired to play a girl with stringy, unattractive hair, and Farrah Fawcett was hired to play a girl with thick, bouncy hair.
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Penny Marshall thought that she was not right for the part, and Hayes got the role.
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Penny Marshall landed another small role in the film The Savage Seven, as well as a guest appearance on the hit television series That Girl, starring Marlo Thomas.
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Penny Marshall was considered for the role of Gloria Bunker Stivic on All in the Family, but lost the part to Sally Struthers.
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In 1970, Garry Penny Marshall became the executive producer of the television series The Odd Couple.
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Penny Marshall continued with the show, but it was canceled after that season's final episode aired in May 1983.
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Penny Marshall played a cameo role as herself on the HBO series Entourage.
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Penny Marshall made a cameo appearance alongside her brother Garry in the Disney Halloween-themed movie Hocus Pocus as husband and wife.
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Penny Marshall soon moved on to theatrical films; her first film was going to be Peggy Sue Got Married.
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Penny Marshall was given the directorial job of Jumpin' Jack Flash starring Whoopi Goldberg after the original director dropped out of the project.
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Penny Marshall gave her daughter Tracy and her brother Garry roles in the film.
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Penny Marshall added that Whoopi Goldberg would take her aside and calm her down if she was looking exhausted that day.
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Penny Marshall directed several successful feature films from the mid-1980s onwards, including Big starring Tom Hanks, Awakenings starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, A League of Their Own with Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell, and The Preacher's Wife starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston.
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In 2010 and 2011, Penny Marshall directed two episodes of the Showtime series United States of Tara.
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Penny Marshall planned on developing a biopic on Effa Manley, but it never materialized.
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Penny Marshall suffered a personal loss when Breeding was killed in a car accident in 1982.
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Penny Marshall had a brief relationship with singer Art Garfunkel in the mid-1980s, and he credits her with helping him through his depression.
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In 2010, it was reported that Penny Marshall had been diagnosed with lung cancer that had metastasized to her brain, but two years later she was "fine now".
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Penny Marshall died in Los Angeles on December 17,2018, at the age of 75.
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Penny Marshall is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.
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One of Penny Marshall's styles is the use of simple pictures that allow the actor to convey the message.
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Penny Marshall's films tend to address contemporary issues in society such as coming of age, women's accomplishments, and oppression of the mentally disabled.