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3. Neither of the women auditioned for the part

Penny Marshall is the sister of producer Garry Marshall, so he initially just offered the two girls a bit walk-on roll on Happy Days without an audition. At the time they had been working as writers on Francis Ford Coppola’s My Country ‘Tis of Thee. The duo clicked, with audiences and the rest is history.

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