Penny Marshall, whose successful Hollywood career took her from hit sitcom star to a director of blockbuster films, has died at 75.
Marshall died Monday night from diabetes-related complications.
She began her career as an actress, most memorably in Laverne & Shirley, where she played Laverne DeFazio, who toiled in a Milwaukee brewery alongside friend and roommate Shirley (Cindy Williams).
But Marshall then transitioned to directing hit movies like 1988’s Big, which was the first film directed by a woman to make more than $100 million in the U.S.,
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