num_pages: 326
description: Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own . What they dont know is her trailblazing career was a happy accident. In this funny and intimate memoir Penny takes us from the stage of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955 to Hollywoods star-studded sets offering up some hilarious detours along the way.My Mother Was Nuts is an intimate backstage pass to Pennys personal life her breakout role on The Odd Couple  her exploits with Cindy Williams and John Belushi and her travels across Europe with Art Garfunkel on the back of a motorcycle. We see Penny get married. And divorced. And married again (the second time to Rob Reiner). We meet a young Carrie Fisher whose close friendship with Penny has spanned decades. And we see Penny at work with Tom Hanks Mark Wahlberg Whoopi Goldberg Robert De Niro and Whitney Houston.Throughout it all from her childhood spent tap dancing in the Bronx to her rise as the star of Laverne &amp; Shirley  Penny lived by simple try hard help your friends dont get too crazy and have fun. With humor and heart My Mother Was Nuts reveals theres no one else quite like Penny Marshall.
language: English
title: My Mother Was Nuts
publisher: New Harvest