Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 76.

Before falling in love with Michele Singer Reiner, Rob Reiner experienced a special love story with Penny Marshall. Although the duo grew up across the street from each other in the Bronx, they didn’t meet until a 1970 audition in Los Angeles for the roles of Mike and Gloria Stivik on All in the Family.

With the news of Rob Reiner and his current wife, Michelle Singer Reiner's being stabbed to death capturing the headlines, curiosity has been brewing about Rob's ex-wife, Penny Marshall.