Penny Marshall Video Interview On ‘My Mother Was Nuts’

Penny Marshall, 68, received her first big break when her brother, Garry, cast her as Laverne DeFazio in an episode of Happy Days in 1975. The following season, she reprised the role in her own series, Laverne & Shirley, co-starring Cindy Williams, which instantly shot to the top of the ratings and ran for eight seasons. After the series wrapped, Marshall went behind the camera, directing such hits as Big, A League of Their Own, Awakenings and The Preacher’s Wife.

Now, Marshall is setting the record straight about her decades in Hollywood in a remarkably candid memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, in which she speaks about being diagnosed with cancer in 2009. “It was that rags keep writing, ‘Pray for her, she’s dying.’ Nothing’s wrong with my liver. I wanted to make that clear. I’m fine,” Marshall told Uinterview exclusively. She also wants to clarify that she owes her hilarious sense of humor to her mother. “My mother had a great sense of humor. My father — dull,” she tells Uinterview. “But my mother, great sense of humor. So we all got it from my mother. And you had to have a sense of humor or you’d kill yourself, because the sarcasm would just fly at you.”

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