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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Stephanie Zacharek](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/)  ## Stephanie Zacharek Film Critic Jul 20, 2016 3:57 PM UTC  Producer Garry Marshall attends the premiere of "Mother's Day" at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood on April 13, 2016. Producer Garry Marshall attends the premiere of "Mother's Day" at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood on April 13, 2016.Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic  by [Stephanie Zacharek](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/)  ## Stephanie Zacharek Film Critic Jul 20, 2016 3:57 PM UTC Nearly everybody who has seen Garry Marshall’s decade-defining 1990 romantic comedy _Pretty Woman_—including people who don’t much care for the film—has a favorite sequence. For many, it’s the moment when Julia Roberts’ sunny, leggy, straight-talking call girl Vivian returns to a chichi boutique where the condescending salesladies have previously snubbed her. This time, she’s beautifully dressed and flaunting armloads of bags and boxes from another, even tonier store. It doesn’t matter that her rich patron, played by Richard Gere, has bankrolled the spree. What does matter is that the snobby shopwomen hadn’t even seen a person—in fact, a dazzling one—standing before them the first time around. When Vivian comes back to the store, she brings to these ladies not just the specter of lost commissions, but a defiant, blazing selfhood. Her new clothes say, _See me for how I’m dressed_, but her new attitude says something far more vital: _See me for who I am._ That’s the kind of populist touch Garry Marshall, who died Tuesday at age 81, brought to nearly every movie and television show—and there were many—that he directed, developed or wrote over a career that spanned more than 50 years. Marshall was born and raised in the Bronx. He did a stint in the Army, and received a journalism degree from Northwestern University, going on to work for the _New York Daily News_. But it wasn’t long before he moved on to television, where he made his name as a comedy writer: In 1960 he began writing for the _Tonight Show_, eventually branching out to contribute to popular sit-coms of the early to mid ‘60s, like Danny Thomas’ _Make Room for Daddy_ and _The Dick Van Dyke Show_. In 1970 he took Neil Simon’s play _The Odd Couple_ and developed it into a hit television show. That was the match that lit a fiery streak of TV successes, the most notable of which was _Happy Days,_ which ran for a remarkable 11 seasons. _Happy Days_ spawned a much-loved spinoff, _LaVerne & Shirley_ (featuring Penny Marshall, Garry’s sister), as well as other series that stood on their own but still bore their creator’s friendly, funny, democratic stamp, like _Mork & Mindy,_ which introduced the world to Robin Williams. Marshall was a showrunner before that term even existed. The Marshall touch is just as evident in the movies he wrote and directed. Most were romantic comedies, although the 1988 _Beaches,_ starring Better Midler and Barbara Hershey as mismatched but lifelong best friends, was an all-out tearjerker: To this day, it frequently tops polls of movies guaranteed to get the waterworks flowing. Critics may not have been crazy about pictures like the 1987 _Overboard_ (with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell). But audiences responded well enough, and in 1990 Marshall tapped the zeitgeist in a spectacular way with _Pretty Woman,_ an undisguised Cinderella fantasy in which a prostitute’s life is changed forever by the love, and money, of a handsome corporate raider. But that’s just one way of looking at the story: His life is changed too, and though you could write 1,001 treatises decrying the movie’s sexual politics, in the end it reaches us for a one elemental reason: Men and women can _always_ find a way get under one another’s skin. Through the 1990s and aughts—and right up until this year, with the multigenerational comedy _Mother’s Day,_ a picture that’s far from great but is at least in tune with the director’s inclusive spirit—Marshall worked to keep the old-school romantic comedy alive in American movies. That was essential to his outlook: His movies and TV shows tended to look back fondly at ostensibly simpler and better times. _Runaway Bride_ (1999) and _The Princess Diaries_ (2001) were decidedly old-fashioned in terms of the dreams and ideas they tapped: They’d have to be, with words like “bride” and “princess” in their titles. But they also asked, and posed answers to, questions that all of us ask: How does anyone become _oneself_ in the face of what society—or our families, our friends, the opposite sex—expects from us? Marshall knew how to make sweet, melodious music from that inherently troubling chord. He could make it funny, too. Some would call Marshall’s work conventional, and others would say it’s timeless. That’s the great contradiction of people who entertain us for a living: Plenty of times, they’re both. 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