'Pretty Woman,' 'Princess Diaries' & Jumping the Shark: The Best of Garry Marshall

Whether it was from a conductor ’s chair or a producer ’s desk , Garry Marshall worked inexhaustibly to fill a cynical and often exhausted world with joy until his terminal days . The Hollywood loyalist passed away on Tuesdayat the age of 81 .

You know Marshall , even if you do n’t . He worked as a writer onThe Dick Van Dyke Show , The Odd Couple , and other germinal situation comedy before bear his own : the long - runningHappy Days(which in turn begatLaverne & Shirley , Mork & Mindy , Joanie be intimate Chachi , and other spinoffs ) . In the ' eighty , he hop-skip over to film and directed a slew of situation comedy - same movies , includingBeaches , Pretty Woman , The Runaway Bride , The Princess Diaries , and a stack of holiday - theme rom - coms . He was also an actor who would happily show up to do a day on a nuts funniness or pollyannaish drama ( did you hear him onBojack HorsemanSeason 2 ? ) .

Whatever you think of Garry Marshall ’s production , the man made an unerasable postage on pop music culture for propagation vernal and old . To recollect this television and motion picture vet , we ’ve rounded up the mo that we can say with utmost certainly will never fade away :

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ThatPretty Womanscene (you know the one)

Everyone deserves to be happy , and Garry Marshall expend most of his career spreading the Christian Bible . In this double-dyed picture fromPretty Woman , a movie well pen off as fixed storage - com fluff , Marshall transform Julia Roberts into America ’s looker with a dream bit – a jaw - flatten dress , a handsome Richard Gere , a rhombus necklace you only see through store windows – and an all - born giggle . None of us will exist this moment , but we all will thanks toPretty Woman .

The Princess Diaries, a 21st-century, teen-girl fantasy,

Did Garry Marshall understand the twenty-first - century teenager or are is every genesis like the others on a molecular level ? This criterion - go forth makeover collage fromThe Princess Diariesis like sleight of hand magic . Anne Hathaway transforms , we ’re transported , and Marshall gets away with the greatest legerdemain in the book : realize movies that belong to in the 1950s for an audience that would n’t defy watch a movie bring forth before 2000 . The valet de chambre knew what people wanted and spoiled them like a universal grandparent . suit in point : just week ago , Hathaway apparentlySkypedwith Julie Andrews and Marshall about a possiblePrincess Diaries 3 .

Taylor Swift’s (underused) acting career

Leave it to Garry Marshall to see through the tabloid ingenue frenzy and detect way for it in a star - stud romantic - comedy . reckon , Valentine ’s Day , along withNew Year ’s EveandMother ’s Day , are not brainy kit and boodle of artistry that will beam from the annals of moving picture story . But if you’re able to excavate chemistry between Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner , you merit a Nobel Prize .

The tear-jerking legacy of “Wind Beneath My Wings”

Marshall ’s canonic weepie will always harbor a special place in the hearts of anyone who loves a well Bette Midler movie . But even if you ’ve never seen the 1988 sleepover staple , you ’ve heard its syrupy root word Sung . " Wind Beneath My Wings , " with its glossy synths and eagle - citing words , may have become a punchline after dominate the charts , but it still kill as the ultimate karaoke ballad , and you could thank Marshall for that .

The coolness of ’80s teens, thanks toThe Flamingo Kid

In 1984 , Matt Dillon starred in a Marshall produced moving-picture show about a clotheshorse who work out at a beach . While the movie does n’t have the same cultural cache asPretty WomanorThePrincess Diaries , it did something important : it was the first moving picture the MPAA bring out the new PG-13 rating to , making stripling around the country sense cooler than their shrimpy younger sib who could n’t look on Dillon stone a pink Polo .

“My Favorite Orkan,” the greatest spin-off setup ever

Having already launchedLaverne & Shirley , Marshall throw caution to the wind by implanting an alien visitor into his relatively down - to - earth sitcomHappy day . On the twenty-third episode of the 5th time of year of the show , " Mork from Ork " ( Robin Williams ) cease up in an intergalactic typeface - off with The Fonz . Why not ? Marshall spotted raw talent in Williams , who would imbueMork & Mindywith such ferocious comedic DOE that Nick n ' Night re - work episodes into the sunrise of millennials .

The term “Jump the Shark”

In the tardy ' 90s , the phrase " jumpstart the Shark " was on the lip and dusty keyboards of TV nerds everywhere . For the uninitiate , it was a mystery story : who jumped a shark ? fortuitously , the reply was easy . It was Fonzie , who leapt over a shark on his water supply - ski and forever marked the Marshall - produced show ’s move into derisory territory that would never totally leave . All other clever pop finish musical phrase –“Nuke the fridge"in particular – will forever be in that shark ’s debt .

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