Inside Penny and Garry Marshall's Unbreakable Sibling Bond | Entertainment Tonight

Inside Penny and Garry Marshall's Unbreakable Sibling Bond | Entertainment Tonight

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Inside Penny and Garry Marshall's Unbreakable Sibling Bond | Entertainment Tonight

On Tuesday, the world learned that longtime actress and director Penny Marshall died at age 75.As one of Hollywood’s top-grossing female filmmakers behind hits like A League of Their Own and Big, she made a mark in the industry that was only matched by her brother, the late director-producer Garry Marshall, who helmed Overboard, Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries franchise. He died at age 81 in 2016.Both had remarkable, longstanding careers across film and TV that spanned multiple decades. Both famously defined how TV’s best sitcoms and film’s favorite romantic comedies would look, sound and feel like. And both left an indelible impression on Hollywood, friends and fans alike.  But for all their successes onscreen, the two were the rare brother-sister duo (or any family combination for that matter) that seemingly rose above all the typical Hollywood drama to maintain one of the most beloved and unbreakable family bonds, even if there was tension not always seen.“My brother gave me a life,” Penny told nephew Scott, her brother’s son who was interviewing her for ET in 2016. “It's not many people who have a brother who gives them a life. He gave me a life and I appreciate it and I tried to not let him down.”Growing up in The Bronx, New York, the two both made their way to Hollywood, picking up small jobs here and there before Garry teamed up with Jerry Belson and the pair developed The Odd Couple for television. It was on that show that Garry brought Penny, who was still a budding actress after making her film debut in How Sweet It Is, on to play Oscar’s secretary, Myrna, for four years. From there, their two careers would be intrinsically linked. In 1975, Garry created Happy Days, on which Penny had a small role as Laverne DeFazio before landing the spinoff, Laverne & Shirley, which Garry also created.“It was the toughest show, or project I ever did, was Laverne & Shirley,” Garry told NPR in 2012, “mostly because it's my sister, and you can't hide from your sister.” Further explaining how it made things tough on their relationship, he said that "she was Laverne and she was in the number one show. And it was difficult for me, because I do, as I said in the book, pride myself on being...