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Tom Hanks recalls Penny Marshall telling him to gain weight for A League of Their Own so he wouldn't look 'cute'

Tom Hanks recalls Penny Marshall telling him to ‘put on as much weight as you can’ for 'A League of Their Own' so he wouldn’t look ‘cute.’

But the stellar ensemble of Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, and especially Geena Davis, with whom his character develops a relationship, convince him to give them a shot. In 2022, director Anne Fletcher honored Penny and her late brother Garry Marshall with a Hocus Pocus 2 Easter egg. In the scene, the Sanderson sisters fly past a window in which a couple are watching the Marshalls' play the satanic "Master" and his "Little Woman" wife.

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