My Happy Days in Hollywood : : a Memoir
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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.
In My Happy Days in Holly wood, Marshall takes us on a journey from his stickball-playing days in the Bronx to the joys and challenges of working with the Fonz and the young Julia Roberts, the "street performer" Robin Williams, and the young Anne Hathaway, among many others. This honest, vibrant, and often hilarious memoir reveals a man whose career has been defined by his drive to make people laugh and whose personal philosophy, despite his tremendous achievements, has always been that life is more important than show business. -- Cover, p. [4].
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House Large Print, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 442 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780739378496
073937849X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Marshall, Lori.
SUBJECTS
Marshall, Garry.
Television producers and directors -- Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Biography.