Garry Marshall, ‘Pretty Woman’ Director and Creator of ‘Happy Days,’ Dies at 81
Source: Variety
Garry Marshall, who created some of the 1970s most iconic sitcoms including Happy Days, The Odd Couple, Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy and went on to direct hit movies including Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia. He was 81. The news was first reported by Access Hollywood.
Marshall went from being TV writer to creating sitcoms that touched the funny bones of the 1970s generation and directing films that were watched over and over: Happy Days helped start a nostalgia craze that has arguably never abated, while Mork and Mindy had a psychedelically goofy quality that catapulted Robin Williams to fame and made rainbow suspenders an icon of their era. Pretty Woman likewise cemented Julia Roberts stardom, while The Princess Diaries made Anne Hathaway a teen favorite.
Read more: http://variety.com/2016/film/news/garry-marshall-dead-dies-pretty-woman-happy-days-1201817964/
True Dough
(17,092 posts)At his diner in the sky...
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,547 posts)SeattleVet
(5,468 posts)Garry Marshall would have definitely seen the humor in it!
I already had posted almost exactly the same thing to a friend's Facebook post --- "Looks like seeing what the 'Chachi' character he created had become was the final blow. (Yeah, probably 'too soon', but I think that Mr. Marshall would have seen the humor in it!) Thanks for all of the fun times, Garry!" ---
Thanks for all the memories, the Happy Days, and the fun times, Mr. Marshall!
2naSalit
(86,056 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 20, 2016, 08:33 AM - Edit history (1)
Heard on the radio this morning. Garry put ABC on the map with so many iconic primetime shows in the '70s that I watched. That was when ABC was going head-to-head against CBS (and their own set of iconic shows), while NBC was in the perennial basement before Brandon Tartikoff broke them out in the early '80s.
Garry and (sister) Penny Marshall -
Big R.I.P. and condolences to the family.
PunkinPi
(4,870 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)That was a big boo boo! You see what I time I wrote it and was still getting my mornin' coffee.
Fixed. Thank you!
PunkinPi
(4,870 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)ms liberty
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(11,841 posts)mdbl
(4,972 posts)Truly enjoy his work. His talents will be missed.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)His best work, in my opinion.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)With production assistance from a Sam Peckinpah zombie.
(Wish I could take credit for this but it was on my FB feed yesterday)