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On August 10 1987, Penny began filming ' Big'. She started filming at Rye Playland in Westchester County New York. The film's on site producer was Bob Greenhut. He had a reputation for running a tight film set. Greenhut hired Barry Sonnenfeld to help Penny film the picture. Sonnenfeld and Penny butted heads right away. Penny wanted to shoot from many angles and shoot many takes. Sonnenfeld was the opposite. He did not like to waste film.

The first scene shot involved Josh and Susan going on a carnival date. They shot Elizabeth Perkins as a blonde and then a redhead. Penny got easily frustrated. She was used to the fast pace of television compared to the slowness of film.

David Moscow was cast as young Josh. Penny got 50 takes of his first scene. He was worried that he was going to be fired. Hanks reassured him that that was Penny's style of filming. To Hanks, his first take was usually his best.

In the spring of 1988, an advance screening of ' Big' was shown at the Zanuck Theater on the Fox backlot. By September of 1988, the film went over $100 million in ticket sales. Penny became the first female director to achieve that lofty statistic. Right away, Penny was thinking about her next project. She wanted to do a film about a professional women's baseball league during WWII.

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