Marshall directed some episodes of “Laverne & Shirley,” which led to a new phase of her career: making the same kind of comedy she perfected in front of the camera also come to life behind it. After the series, she moved on to directing film. Her debut was this comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg in her first lead comedic role, playing a computer programmer who gets caught up in espionage. (Rent it on iTunes, Amazon Prime, Google Play and YouTube.)

‘Big’ (1988)