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Authors and Artists for Young Adults on Penny Marshall
Despite her enormous success as an actress and major motion picture director, Penny Marshall is still notoriously known for her incredibly low self-esteem. "Penny Marshall has been putting herself down too long to quit cold turkey," explains Joe Morgenstern in Playboy. "She still shrugs her self-deprecating shrug, still whines her self-doubting whine. Nevertheless, she has started sifting through evidence that she may actually be good at her new career." Marshall became a household name when she portrayed the wacky, wise-cracking, milk- and-Pepsi-drinking Laverne De Fazio on the popular prime-time sitcom Laverne and Shirley from 1976 to 1983. The switch from comedic actress to major motion picture director came unexpectedly in 1985, but Marshall's new career is progressing rapidly--her films include such box-office smash hits as Big, Awakenings, and A League of Their Own. "Fifteen years after Laverne and Shirley made her a famous bottlecapper,... [Marshall] has evolved into a frazzled earth...
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