My Days

For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of Americas favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . .Before she was affectionately known to millions as Mrs. C., Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet who went on to appear in nearly every major TV series of the 1950s and 1960sincluding Love, American Style, in which she donned an apron that would cinch her career. Soon after came the fateful phone call from producer Garry Marshall that made her an overnight success, and changed her life . . .In this warm and candid memoir, filled with loving recollections from the award-winning Happy Days teamfrom break-out star Henry Winkler to Cunningham wild child Erin MoranRoss shares what it was like to be a starry-eyed young girl with dreams in poor, rural Minnesota, and the resilience, sacrifices, and determination it took to make them come true. She recalls her early years in the business, being in the company of such luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Noel Coward, yet always feeling the Hollywood outsidera painful invisibility that mirrored her own childhood. She reveals the absolute joys of playing a wife and mother on TV, and the struggles of maintaining those roles in real life. But among Rosss most heart-rending recollections are those of finally finding a soulmateanother secret hope of hers made true well beyond her expectations.Funny, poignant, and revealingand featuring Garry Marshalls final illuminating interviewas well as a touching foreword from her TV son Ron Howard, and a conversation with her real-life son and daughter, Marion Rosss story is one of inspiration, persistence, and gratitude. Its also a glowing tribute to all those who fulfilled her dreamsand in turn, gave us some of the happiest days of our own lives.