VIDEO : Penny Marshall Dies At 75

REUTERS/Phil McCarten WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Penny Marshall, who played an endearingly graceless character with a thick Bronx accent in U.S. television?s ?Laverne & Shirley? before becoming a pioneering film director with hits including ?Big? and ?A League of Their Own,? has died at 75, her publicist said on Tuesday. Marshall played the unrefined but lovable Laverne DeFazio on ?Laverne & Shirley,? a situation comedy that ran on the ABC network from 1976 to 1983, following the lives of two single women and their nutty friends in 1950s and ?60s Milwaukee.