![]() Marshall had shot to fame as an actor, playing the goofy Laverne Defazio opposite Cindy Williams in Laverne & Shirley, a sitcom created by Marshall’s brother, Garry. Nevertheless, its Oscar nomination for Best Picture made Marshall only the second woman (after Randa Haines, director of Children of a Lesser God) to have a film in contention in that category. ![]() Though this film, too, was a hit, it was manipulative, simplistic and cloying, and showed its stars, Robin Williams (as the doctor) and Robert De Niro (as his patient), at their self-indulgent worst. In between, she made Awakenings (1990), based on the book of the same name in which the neurologist Oliver Sacks detailed his work with catatonic sufferers of “sleeping sickness”, or encephalitis lethargica. “Unfortunately everyone’s cycle synched up,” said Marshall. The box-office triumph of Big was repeated with A League of Their Own (1992), in which Hanks played the manager of a women’s baseball team Madonna and Geena Davis also starred. ![]()
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