

The same could be said of Marshall, as she became the first woman director to have a movie gross more than $100 million.

It would lead to his first of four Best Actor Oscar nominations and put him into a whole other league. SEE an In Memoriam gallery of celebs who left us in 2018įrom his dancing on the giant keyboard at FAO Schwartz to his spitting out caviar at his office party to his all-too real-regret about having to give up his childhood dreams, it provided Hanks with the perfect vehicle to show his strength as a multi-talent. Perhaps, this gave sister Penny the idea to cast Hanks in what would become a popular premise at the time – a body-change comedy – in which the actor would play the adult version of a pubescent lad who becomes an adult overnight. While the dramedy flopped at the time, it has slowly improved its reputation over time.

Then brother Garry paired Hanks with the legendary Jackie Gleason as a sickly aging father and playboy son at odds in in 1986’s “Nothing in Common,” which would prove to be Gleason’s final film before he died from cancer.
