there's no crying in baseball page 4

 there's no crying in baseball page 4 by ric gustafson

Garry Marshall was already established in Hollywood. He had written for the Dick Van Dyke Show and the Lucy Show. When Penny reached out to him for help, he decided to help his younger sister. The problem was Penny was a nobody in the business. She had trouble landing auditions. 

Garry helped Penny get a commercial. It was a Head and Shoulders commercial with Farrah Fawcett. Penny then got a small role on an episode of an NBC series called ' Then Came Bronson'.

Garry asked his sister for some help. He asked her if she could talk to Jack Klugman about a character he was doing. That character was Oscar Madison. He was doing that character in a Broadway play. Garry had an idea for a TV series based on Oscar Madison and a character named Felix Unger played by Tony Randall. 

The TV series was called the Odd Couple. The show debuted in 1970. In April 1971, Penny married Rob Reiner. Reiner was funny, honest, driven and abrasive. Rob's father was Carl Reiner. Carl created the Dick Van Dyke Show. One of Rob's dreams was to become a director. The Odd Couple show ended in 1975.

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