Barbara & Lori Marshall
Barbara Marshall was born in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1939 and graduated from The Jewish Hospital School of Nursing, in Cincinnati, in 1960. That year, she moved to Los Angeles to work at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, where she treated such celebrities as Peter Sellers, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. After she married writer-producer-director Garry Marshall and had three children, she worked as a volunteer in the High Risk Youth Program, a project of the Los Angeles Free Clinic and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, from 1982 until 1996. She has served on the board of directors for the Los Angeles Music Center, Oakwood School, Harvard-Westlake School, The Downtown Women’s Center, and The California Wellness Foundation. She is president of the Barbara and Garry Marshall Family Foundation, dedicated to the ongoing support of health, education, and culture in California, and president of the board of the Garry Marshall Theatre, in Burbank, California. She is a dedicated philanthropist, activist, and literature fan and a substitute nurse at the Oakwood Elementary School. This is her first book.
Lori Marshall is the oldest child of Barbara and Garry Marshall. She wrote two books with her father: Wake Me When It’s Funny (1995) and My Happy Days in Hollywood (2012), both memoirs about his career. Like her father, she is a graduate of Northwestern University; she also has a master’s degree from its Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communications. Like her mother, she is an avid tennis fan and traveler; together, they have been to England, Scotland, France, Italy, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, and Israel. Since 2016, Lori has been the curator of her own literary website, www.lorislibraryparty.com, where each week she relates to and recommends a novel or work of nonfiction. She is the mother of twin girls, Lily Camille and Charlotte Grace, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Jeff