One Way Ticket to L.A.: How a Nurse from Ohio Found Love in Hollywood

In honor of Mother’s Day and in celebration of National Nurses Week, we are pleased to announce the publication of “One Way Ticket To L.A.” by our new imprint Sarah Street Press. For those of you who know my mother and for those of you who don’t know her, this will be a fascinating read. We worked hard to capture her life the way it has been lived. She is not a glass-half-empty kind of person, nor is she a glass-half -full kind of person. Every day her glass is overflowing with water and sometimes even champagne. My mom and I were sitting at Nopa one night having dinner with my husband Jeff, and we were trying to find a title. After several near misses, Jeff looked right at us and said “One Way Ticket to L.A.” I smiled because it was the perfect title for our manuscript. From the time Barbara was a little girl she knew she had to get out of Ohio, she just didn’t know how. After a grade-school teacher helped her pinpoint nursing as a solid profession, she scraped together the money to attend. When her wedding to her high school boyfriend was abruptly cancelled, she seized the opportunity to leave Cincinnati and move to Los Angeles with her best friend, Donna. It was in Hollywood that she met a fast-talking comedy writer from the Bronx named Garry Marshall. She knew almost immediately that she had met her husband, found her city, and would become a trailblazing nurse opening the first intensive care unit at Cedar’s Hospital. Together Garry and Barbara built a marriage that lasted 53 years and was one of the most respected unions in Hollywood. The couple went on to travel the world, work with stars like Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Julie Andrews, and meet three U.S. Presidents. “One-Way Ticket to L.A.” is a tale of two successful lives, well lived and well played. Barbara’s stories center around the themes of loyalty, hard work, dedication, and, most of all love. For more information, please visit our website at www.Sarahstreetpress.com. This book is now available on Amazon or through your local book seller. To buy this book on Amazon click here.