My happy days in Hollywood a memoir

Marshall, Garry.

Large Print 2012

In My Happy Days in Hollywood, 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 treme...

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ISBN:

9780739378496

Edition:

First large print edition

Description:

xvi, 442 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

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 and 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 and M
Dear God: building stories in a post office and a new career as an actor
Other sister: striving for a 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 rule: 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
My tips for actors

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829947

Other Authors:

Marshall, Lori

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