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  Garry Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garry Kent Marshall (born November 13, 1934) is an American actor/director/writer/producer.
Marshall attended Northwestern University and was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, where he wrote a sports column for the college newspaper.
Marshall is also a comic actor who often plays wisecracking guys who tell it like it is, having appeared in the television series Murphy Brown and in such movies as Goldfinger (uncredited), Grand Theft Auto, Lost in America, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Runaway Bride, Orange County, and A League of Their Own, directed by his sister.
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 Penny Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Penny Marshall (born October 15, 1942) is an American actress, producer and director.
She is the sister of writer, producer and director Garry Marshall, neither of whom were raised Catholic, but rather in their mother's Protestant faith.
Marshall was married to actor and director Rob Reiner (1971 -1979).
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 Garry Marshall
Born in New York, actor/director/producer/writer and brother to famed actress/director Penny, Garry was brought up in the Bronx and graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism before venturing off to the U.S. Army.
Marshall was also successful alone, creating classic television series like Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley (starring his sister, Penny), and Mork and Mindy.
Garry has also spent some time in front of the camera playing roles in films like Soap Dish and his sister's A League of their Own, as well as small roles in some of his own films, plus several television appearances.
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 Garry Marshall - Biography - Moviefone
The career of producer/director Garry Marshall has been marked by many peaks, the highest of which include such classic television sitcoms as The Odd Couple (1970-1975), Happy Days (1974-1984), and Mork and Mindy (1978-1982), and the phenomenally popular feature film Pretty Woman (1990).
A Brooklyn native, Marshall (born Gary Marsciarelli) is the son of an industrial filmmaker and a dance instructor.
Marshall majored in journalism at Northwestern University and subsequently served a stint in the army before becoming a reporter for the New York Daily News.
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 Garry Marshall News
He knew that his dad, TV-series creator and movie director Garry Marshall, is funnier in person than his movies or TV series ever...
Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and Lindsay Lohan are all attached to star in "Georgia Rule," which Garry Marshall is aboard to helm, write and produce, according to Variety.
Garry Marshall - who created and produced the original television show - directs the new musical version of his popular 1974-84 series at his Falcon Theatre in Burbank, California.
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 Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall is a Hollywood director, producer, sometimes writer, and occasional actor.
Marshall was an executive producer on the '70s sitcom version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, and created the classically awful 1972 sitcom Me and the Chimp.
Marshall had filmed a pilot for ABC two years earlier, which hadn't sold (it aired as a segment on Love American Style).
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 Marshall, Garry
Garry Marshall was the executive producer of a string of sitcoms that helped ABC win the ratings race for the first time in the network's history in the late 1970s.
Marshall became a comedy writer during the last years of television's "golden age." He started out as an itinerant joke writer for an assortment of TV comics and eventually secured a staff writing position on The Joey Bishop Show.
Marshall's television tradition was carried on by Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett, two alumni of Marshall's production staff.
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 NEWS | MAGAZINE | VOLUME 26-3 SEPTEMBER 2001
Penny, of course, is Marshall's sister, also an established director, who got her start in show biz via her big brother's eye for talent, and his penchant for making work a family affair.
Marshall may be one of the few directors working within the Hollywood system who actually has a reputation for improvising with his actors--a technique that makes most studio executives quake with fear.
Marshall's third option when improvising is to pick up insert shots to "save the scene" because as he notes, "If the improv goes flat, you can't keep cutting away to the same actor." Marshall prefers animals for these second unit inserts, most recently Fat Louie the Cat in The Princess Diaries.
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 Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Garry Marshall talks about 'Happy Days'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A chatty guy himself, Garry Marshall was surprised when a cool, silent type emerged as the star of his 1970s sitcom, "Happy Days," which begins new life with the DVD release of its first season.
LOS ANGELES --A chatty guy himself, Garry Marshall was surprised when a cool, silent type emerged as the star of his 1970s sitcom, "Happy Days," which begins new life with the DVD release of its first season.
Marshall created "Happy Days" as an alternative to his work on the live-audience sitcom "The Odd Couple." Early on, "Happy Days" was shot on sets and real locations.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2004/08/16/garry_marshall_talks_about_happy_days?mode=PF   (313 words)

  
 Dialogue: Garry Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Veteran producer, director and writer of film, television and theater Garry Marshall has been selected by the American Cinema Editors' board of directors to receive the organization's ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award.
Garry Marshall: I learned about what editing can do when I worked in television, when I was first editing on "The Odd Couple" and "Happy Days." I saw how you could change the story around and make it different in the editing process.
Marshall: I'm a filmmaker who shoots a lot of footage and puts the movie together in the editing room, so I usually bring the editor on very early.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/film/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2089220   (648 words)

  
 Sports Hollywood - Ten Questions with Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall on the set of The Princess Diaries.
Garry Marshall is one of the most influential comedic talents of the last 50 years.
Garry Marshall: Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters.
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 Garry Marshall
In the four decades since his career began, Garry Marshall has established himself as one of the entertainment industry’s most respected writers, producers and directors of television, film and theater.
Marshall’s latest film is another romantic comedy for Disney entitled, “The Princess Diaries.” Starring Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo and newcomer Anne Hathaway, it is set for a nationwide release this August.
Marshall is the recipient of the Television Showmanship Award (1979); American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award (1990); Publicists Guild Motion Picture Showmanship Award for Film (1992); and the prestigious Valentine Davies Award from the Writers Guild (1995).
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 Garry Marshall @ Filmbug
A producer, director and writer of film, television, and theater, Garry Marshall has - in addition to Raising Helen - another film set for release this year: the sequel to the box-office hit The Princess Diaries, The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement, which re-teams him with Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway.
Marshall has helped launch the careers of such performers as Robin Williams, Pam Dawber, his sister Penny Marshall, Jason Alexander, Henry Winkler, Mayim Bialik, Crystal Bernard, and Anne Hathaway.
Marshall is the recipient of such prestigious awards as the 1990 American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1992 Publicists Guild Motion Picture Showmanship Award and, in 1979, the Guild's Television Showmanship Award.
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 EXCLUSIVE: Director Garry Marshall talks about Beaches: Special Edition DVD
Garry: I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.
Garry: Well, they're going to see some deleted scenes and some extra scenes that we had and they're going to hear me tell all about the behind-the-scenes story of it so it will be a different experience that way because there was never a DVD out on this picture.
Garry Marshall will soon be seen in-the-flesh as a thespian himself, in his son Scott Marshall's comedy "Lucky 13", which also stars Daryl Hannah, Jami Gertz, Jeremy Piven and even features Neil Diamond as himself.
www.movieweb.com /dvd/news/news.php?id=7608   (2853 words)

  
 Garry Marshall Biography @ Filmbug
A veteran producer, director and writer of film, television and theater, Garry Marshall most recently directed Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in the comedy hit Runaway Bride, in which he reunited with his Pretty Woman stars.
Marshall has helped launch the careers of such performers as Robin Williams, Pam Dawber, his sister Penny Marshall, Jason Alexander, Henry Winkler, Mayim Bialik and Crystal Bernard.
Marshall had a recurring role in the long-running television series Murphy Brown as Stan Lansing, the caustic head of the fictional network.
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 Interviews: Garry Marshall - Christianity Today Movies
Sixteen years later, Kate is Marshall's leading lady in the romantic comedy Raising Helen, opening next week.
Garry Marshall: I am a total believer of making the process a good time—make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
Marshall: Because, in my mind, it is a salute to parents and how hard it is to raise kids these days.
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 Reel.com: Garry Marshall
Marshall was a late bloomer to feature films, debuting in 1982 with Young Doctors in Love.
Though suffering from laryngitis while on a recent visit to San Francisco, Marshall was both garrulous and gracious as he met with reporters to chat about his latest work and why he prefers movies to TV.
Garry Marshall: Well, they said they had this kind of a sweet movie, but they wanted to see if they could get a G movie, and, if I directed it, I could make it crazier and funnier and double up jokes that adults might get.
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 HSX Prediction Market: StarBonds® : Garry Marshall
Garry Kent Marshall is a legendary figure in the world of television.
But even with his many TV achievments, Marshall has also formed a successful career as a motion picture director.
Forthcoming for Marshall is a project known as The Princess Diaries, a comedy about a young, city girl who finds out that she is the princess of a small country in Europe.
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 Garry Marshall, The Chicken Little Interview
Garry Marshall chats about being the voice of Buck Cluck in Chicken Little.
Garry Marshall: I don’t remember the name of the picture but I play ed an Aztec Indian who turn ed into a stone.
Garry Marshall: I was proud to be direct ed by my son.
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 Open Directory - Arts:People:M:Marshall, Garry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Garry Marshall is well known as the writer for classic sitcoms as The Odd Couple and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., the creator of such sitcoms as Happy Days it's several spin-offs, the director of film hits Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries, as well as an actor in several films such as Never Been Kissed.
Links to films in which Garry Marshall played a significant role in, be it acting or directing.
Links to television programs in which Garry Marshall played a significant role in, be it acting, creating, or writing.
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 Garry Marshall - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
The career of producer/director Garry Marshall has been marked by many peaks, the highest of which include such classic television sitcoms as The...
Garry Marshall was the executive producer of a string of sitcoms that helped ABC win the ratings race for the first time in the network's history in the...
Garry Marshall - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Garry Marshall Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Amazon.ca: DVD: Save up to 30% on bestselling DVDs. Free shipping within Canada available on orders over $39   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One is based on Anne Rice's erotic novel of a fantasy island where dreams are fulfilled and sexuality is open to all, led by a congenial dominatrix (Dana Delany) and a glowing new recruit (Paul Mercurio of Strictly Ballroom).
Garry Marshall's 1988 drama about a 30-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by Iris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the characters' separate...
Penny Marshall's popular 1992 comedy sheds light on a little-known chapter of American sports history with its story of a struggling team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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 Comedy On Tap- Garry Marshall Interview
I was not left to wonder for long, however, as I looked down and read the name on the star in front of Disney's theater: Garry Marshall.
Garry Marshall began his career in Hollywood by writing for such television classics as The Lucy Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show and went on to create many beloved programs, including Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, and The Odd Couple.
In this interview, Garry Marshall, the director of the first two films, Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride, discusses this evident evolution of the romantic heroine in Hollywood film.
www.comedyontap.com /film/marshall.html   (2062 words)

  
 Big Brothers, Big Sister Fete Hollywood Icon Garry Marshall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Garry Marshall, the multi-faceted writer, director, producer, actor of films, television and theater began his career in the 1950s, moving from the Bronx to L.A. in 1961.
Marshall is also busy with the Falcon Theatre, an organization he founded in Burbank five years ago.
Marshall has been active with the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program for years, continuing work begun by Walt Disney and his composer friend Meredith Wilson, who founded Big Brothers of Los Angeles in 1955.
www.lafamily.com /display_article.php?id=56   (449 words)

  
 Garry Marshall, Stage Hound: For the film and TV veteran, all the world's a stage at the Falcon Theatre. Feature on ...
Garry Marshall, Stage Hound: For the film and TV veteran, all the world's a stage at the Falcon Theatre.
Garry Marshall, the entertainment industry heavyweight, is really starting to get a name for himself in this town--as a theater junkie--with his own 99-seat Falcon Theatre in Burbank.
Co-written with Lowell Ganz, and directed by Marshall, the play premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf in 1990, moved to L.A.'s Coronet Theatre, and opened in New York in 1993 starring George C. Scott.
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 Garry Marshall - Cranky Critic® StarTalk - Movie Star Interviews
Garry Marshall: Richard was very open this time to comedy.
Garry Marshall: They are both very busy now.
Garry Marshall: People make fun of my nepotism but I'm very comfortable with my family members around because it makes me calmer.
www.crankycritic.com /qa/garrymarshall.html   (1341 words)

  
 CNN.com - Garry Marshall finds a new 'Princess' - August 3, 2001
Here he is, daring to introduce into this world of "American Pie" and "Scary Movie" sequels -- teen movies involving sex, gross humor, and more sex -- his latest work, "The Princess Diaries." It's a story about a nice high school girl who must accept her destiny when she finds out she's an honest-to-goodness princess.
Marshall says casting Hathaway in the lead role, opposite film legend Andrews, was an easy choice.
Speaking of the current state of the entertainment industry, Marshall also keeps tabs on his former stomping grounds in television.
archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/03/garry.marshall   (610 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - The Princess Diaries -- Garry Marshall - DVD - Wide Screen / Pan & Scan / Thx
Garry Marshall conjures up more fairy-tale, Pretty Woman magic for this film take on Meg Cabot's popular novel for teens.
Lending able comic support are Larry Miller, as the flamboyant hairdresser assigned to transform Mia, and Marshall regular Hector Elizondo as Mia's plainspoken chauffeur and bodyguard.
Marshall -- who built his reputation on such family fare as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy -- knows how to get laughs without stooping to inappropriate humor, which is to say that the picture's G rating doesn't mean it's bland.
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