Transcript for 'Simply heartbroken': Hollywood mourns the death of famed director Penny Marshall

He unmistakable voicing civil burning surely one of America's most popular sitcoms in the late seventies and early eighties. And Penny Marshall as Laverne Defazio one of its most famous stars. The actress died Monday at her home and a Hollywood Hills due to complications. From diabetes. Marshall was born in 1943. In the Bronx the daughter of a dance teacher and a film director. In 1967. After a series of jobs in New Mexico she headed to LA joining her older brother thing director Garry Marshall. Following the success of Laverne and Shirley she became a filmmaker one of the top grossing directors in Hollywood. Marshall was a first woman to direct a movie that made over a hundred million dollars vehicle and 1988 comedy starring Tom Hanks hits such as a league of their own jumping Jack flash and awakening is followed. In 2004. Marshall and her Laverne and Shirley co star Cindy Williams received stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame she survived by an older sister daughter and three grandchildren. Penny Marshall was 75. Alex down ABC news Los Angeles.

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