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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
September 2012
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Featuring: Penny Marshall
326 pages
ISBN: 0547892624
EAN: 9780547892627
Kindle: B008L4KRCS
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big
and A League of Their Own. What they don’t 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 Hollywood’s
star-studded sets, offering up some hilarious detours along
the way. My Mother Was Nuts is an intimate backstage pass to
Penny’s 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 &
Shirley, Penny lived by simple rules: “try hard, help
your friends, don’t get too crazy, and have fun.” With humor
and heart, My Mother Was Nuts reveals there’s no one
else quite like Penny Marshall.
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