Book
My happy days in Hollywood : a memoir / Garry Marshall with Lori Marshall.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307885005 (hc) :
- Physical Description: x, 276 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Archetype, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "From Happy Days and the Odd Couple to Pretty Woman and the Princess Diaries, tales from a Hollywood legend". Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Bronx: growing up allergic to everything but stickball -- Northwestern: attending college with the thickest accent anyone had ever heard -- Korea: welcome to the United States Army, Mr. Marshall -- New York City: writing for stand-up comedians and being paid in corn beef -- Hollywood: finding love, laughs and Lucy in California -- The odd couple: running my first TV show with Oscar and Felix -- Happy days: hanging out with the Cunningham family and friends -- Schlemiel! schlimazel! Laverne & Shirley are driving the writers crazy -- Mork and Mindy: managing a martian and a new playwrighting career -- Young doctors in love: directing an outrageous hospital comedy as my first movie -- The flamingo kid: going back to my New York roots -- Nothing in common: working with the great ones Hanks and Gleason -- Overboard: capturing love on the ocean with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell -- Beaches: exploring female friendship with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey -- Pretty woman: meeting a hooker with a heart of gold and a girl named Julia -- Frankie and Johnny: Pfeiffer, Pacino, the Claire de lune and me -- Exit to Eden: taking a wrong turn into the land of S&M -- Dear God: building stories in a post office and a new career as an actor -- The other sister: striving for different kind of love story -- Runaway bride: walking down the aisle again with Roberts and Gere -- Princess diaries: giving the royal treatment to Andrews and Hathaway -- Raising Helen: directing Kate Hudson and the next generation -- Georgia rules: Jane rules and Lindsay misbehaves -- Valentine's day: turning the camera on love and my favorite day of the year -- New year's eve: celebrating the splendor of New York City. |
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| Subject: | Marshall, Garry. Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography. Television producers and directors > United States > Biography. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | LP 791.450233092 Marsh | 31681002665057 | LARGEPT | Available | - |
GARRY MARSHALL is a veteran producer, director, and writer of film, television, and theater. He learned his craft writing jokes for Lucille Ball, Dick Van Dyke, and Danny Thomas. He has created and produced some of televisionâs most beloved situation comedies and directed some of Americaâs favorite romantic comedies. Marshall has been married to his wife, Barbara, for close to fifty years, and he has three children and six grandchildren. He writes with his daughter Lori; acts in movies directed by his son, Scott; and produces plays at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank, California, with his daughter Kathleen.
LORI MARSHALL has written eleven produced childrenâs plays for the stage, co-written two books, and contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times,and the Chicago Tribune. Like her father, she is a graduate of Northwestern Universityâs Medill School of Journalism. She has been writing with her father since the eighth grade, when he helped her punch up an English paper on Franz Kafka. She lives in San Francisco and is the mother of twin girls, Lily Camille and Charlotte Grace.
