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Bright-eyed, naive Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking Laverne DeFazio are back, working in the brewery and getting into all sorts of hilarious situations. In this season, the girls' zany adventures take them from the high seas of a cruise ship to their highest comic heights as they pilot an airplane.
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Penny Marshall is an actress, producer, and director. After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley. A ratings success, the show ran from 1976 until 1983, and Marshall received three Golden Globe award nominations for her performance. She went on to direct films such as Big (1988) , the first film directed by a woman to gross in excess of $100 million at the U.S. box office, Awakenings (1990) , which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, and A League of Their Own (1992) . In more recent years, she has produced Cinderella Man (2005) and Bewitched (2005) , as well as episodes of According to Jim (2009) . She most recently directed an episode of the Showtime original series United States of Tara.
