My Happy Days in Hollywood

GARRY MARSHALL was a veteran producer, director, and writer of film, television, and theater. He learned his craft writing jokes for Lucille Ball, Dick Van Dyke, and Danny Thomas. He created and produced some of television's most beloved situation comedies and directed some of America's favorite romantic comedies. Marshall was married to his wife, Barbara, for close to fifty years, and had three children and six grandchildren. He wrote with his daughter Lori; acted in movies directed by his son, Scott; and produced plays at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank, California, with his daughter Kathleen.

LORI MARSHALL has written eleven produced children's plays for the stage, co-written two books, and contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Like her father, she is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She has been writing with her father since the eighth grade, when he helped her punch up an English paper on Franz Kafka. She lives in San Francisco and is the mother of twin girls, Lily Camille and Charlotte Grace.