Penny Marshall: Revealed by her Double Birth Order

The entertainment world lost Carole Penny Marshall December 17, 2018. We all knew her as Laverne in the TV sitcom Laverne & Shirley but did you really know a her? Her Double birth order will reveal the real Penny Marshall.

A Family of Double Birth Orders

When children in a family are spaced four or more years apart they add the Only birth order to their birth number. This addition of the Only child’s characteristics powers up their individual birth orders it magnifies and intensifies their personalities. In the Marshall family Gary was born in 1934, then Ronell in 1938, last was Penny in 1943. Gary was a 1/Only, Ronell is a 2/Only and Penny a 3/Only.

Artistic Roots

Penny’s father, Anthony Marshall was an industrial film director. Her mother Marjorie, a tap dance teacher. Both her older brother Gary and Sister Ronny went into the film making industry. Penny would follow them years later.

The Three/Only Birth Order

The Three birth order is the most sensitive of all the birth orders. Laughing on the outside but crying on the inside describes them best. Her friend Cindy Miller said she was like a barbecued marshmallow, crispy on the outside and the most mushy marshmallow on the inside.

Threes rarely let you see inside as they develop a protective wall around themselves. When you add the Only birth order you magnify all these traits. Penny was nothing like her older siblings. Combining the Three Birth order with the Only gives the recipient the “Drama Queen” label.

They understand all those around them but events in their own lives are always dramatic.  She was known in her family as the “bad one,” walking out on the ledge of their apartment, sneaking into movies, and getting pregnant while in college. She married the father only to get divorced two years later. She married Rob Reiner in 1971 divorced in 1980

Penny the Director

Her directing career started in 1986 with Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Big in 1988 with Tom Hanks who shared her #3 birth order. This film made her the first woman director to have a film grossing over 100 million dollars.

In 1992 she directed A League of Their Own which also grossed over 100 million. As a director she used her innate birth order talent to understand just how to reach her actors.

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Additive Personality

The #3 birth order has a greater possibility of addiction? They are open to the world around them but sometimes not strong enough to resist. Cigarettes was one of her addictions as was cocaine, marijuana and Quaaludes. She gave up all of them except her cigarettes after her cancer treatment.

Quotes and Friends

What defines you are the subtle things; who are your friends and what do you say. Your friends tend to be your birth order. Suzanne Somers a Three/Only helped Penny during her cancer treatment. She was also friends with Rosie O’Donnell another #3.

Penny has said, “I have the strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.” “My brother and sister were much older. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.” “I wasn’t a girly girl; I was a tomboy.” This last quote sums it up, “I’ll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?” Show business and the public will miss her.