Penny Marshall, who played feisty Laverne in ‘Laverne & Shirley’ before directing movies, dies at 75

Penny Marshall had been making minor inroads in Hollywood for several years before the iconic Laverne and Shirley characters debuted as Richie and Fonzie’s double dates on an episode of “Happy Days” in 1975.

Marshall, who played the feisty Laverne on the spinoff series, “Laverne & Shirley,” was…