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  • Born: November 21, 1937, Deerfield, MI
  • Active: '70s, '80s, 2000s
  • Genres: Children
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Free to Be You and Me," "Thanks & Giving All Year Long," "Free to Be a Family"

Biography

Best remembered for her starring role in the television classic That Girl, actress Marlo Thomas also recorded a series of children's albums inspired by her acclaimed Free to Be... specials. The daughter of legendary comedian Danny Thomas, she was born in Deerfield, MI, on November 21, 1937; despite her show business background, Thomas initially pursued a teaching career, and only turned to performing after college. A handful of guest shots on TV series ranging from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis to 77 Sunset Strip preceded her first starring role, on 1961's The Joey Bishop Show; Thomas left the program after its first season, however, and returned to the guest circuit, appearing on shows including Bonanza and McHale's Navy. In 1965, she also made her uncredited feature film debut in Richard Lester's hit The Knack...and How to Get It.

A year later, Thomas was cast in the title role of the sitcom That Girl, a groundbreaking series that was the first show of its kind to realistically portray the life of a single, independent young woman; the role not only made Thomas a star, but it also launched her as an enduring feminist icon. After That Girl ended its run in 1971, she became increasingly active in social and political work, and in 1974 starred in and co-produced the Emmy Award-winning children's special Free to Be...You and Me, releasing a soundtrack (though an album of the same name had been released two years prior, and was later reissued by Arista in 2006), and a sequel, Free to Be...A Family, followed in 1988, generating a soundtrack as well. Thomas acted sparingly in the intervening years, marrying talk show host Phil Donahue and working in film and on Broadway; in 1996, she also returned to TV to guest as Rachel's mother on the smash sitcom Friends. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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  • Born: Nov 21, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '60s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Free to Be... You and Me, That Girl: Season 01, Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story
  • First Major Screen Credit: Bonanza: A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay (1964)

Biography

Anyone who watched the old TV sitcom Make Room for Daddy will remember that it was produced by a company called Marterto. This corporate name was an amalgam of the names of Danny Thomas' children: Margaret, Terry, and Tony. By 1959, Margaret Thomas had undergone a little cosmetic surgery, changed her name to Marlo Thomas, and launched an acting career on stage and TV. After guest starring in dozens of programs, she starred in her own series, That Girl, in which she played an aspiring actress with a benevolent despot of a father (where did that concept come from?). That Girl ran from 1966 through 1970, after which Thomas concentrated on Broadway appearances and occasional films like Thieves (1971). Extremely active in social and political causes during the next two decades, Thomas nonetheless found time to star in several made-for-TV movies and also co-produce the Emmy-winning children's TV special Free to Be...You and Me. She won additional Emmys for producing the 1988 follow-up Free to Be...a Family; for hosting the 1980 special The Body Human: Facts for Girls; and for her outstanding dramatic performance as an institutionalized mental patient in the TV film Nobody's Child (1986). Long a marital holdout, Marlo Thomas closed out the 1970s by walking down the aisle with talk-show host Phil Donahue. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Marlo Thomas

Thomas at the Emmy Awards, September 17, 1989
Born Margaret Julia Thomas
November 21, 1937 (1937-11-21) (age 72)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Spouse(s) Phil Donahue (m. 1980–present) «start: (1980)»"Marriage: Phil Donahue to Marlo Thomas" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlo_Thomas)

Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas (born November 21, 1937) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series That Girl in the 1960s.

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Early life

Thomas was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Rose Marie (née Cassanti; 1914–2000) and Lebanese-American comedian Danny Thomas (1912–1991). Her brother Tony Thomas is a television and film producer, and her sister, Terre Thomas, is a former actress. Marlo Thomas was raised in Beverly Hills, California, and went by the nickname of Margie Thomas while attending school. She attended Marymount High School in Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a teaching degree and was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.

Career

Thomas began appearing as a regular on The Joey Bishop Show (1961-1962). She followed the series with guest shots on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Ben Casey, My Favorite Martian, and Bonanza, but it was not until 1966 that she hit her professional stride as aspiring New York actress Ann Marie on the ABC sitcom That Girl. The series ran until 1971, garnering her a Golden Globe Award and four Emmy nominations. She was instrumental in the production of the TV special and record album Free to Be… You and Me.

Anxious to show she was as adept at drama as she was at comedy, she proved herself in the television movies It Happened One Christmas (1977) (a remake of It's a Wonderful Life, with Thomas in the rewritten James Stewart role), Nobody's Child (1986) , and The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck (1984), while she starred in Jenny (1970) and Thieves (1977) on the big screen.

Thomas's Broadway theatre credits include Thieves (1974), Social Security (1986 which she also toured), and The Shadow Box (1994). In 1993 she toured in Six Degrees of Separation. In 2007, she starred as Doreen in Elaine May's comedy Roger Is Dead at George Street Playhouse. She returned to George Street Playhouse in the spring of 2008 in Arthur Laurents' play New Year's Eve with Keith Carradine and Natasha Gregson Wagner.

She is also known for her children's books and the recordings and television specials created in conjunction with them: Free to Be… You and Me (1972 and 1974) and Free to Be… A Family (1987), with Christopher Cerf, which were born out of an attempt to teach her then-young niece Dionne about life. She is donating all royalties from her 2004 book and CD, Thanks & Giving: All Year Long (also produced with Cerf), to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Started by her late father, the organization helps young children suffering from grave forms of disease, especially cancer and leukemia, including many whose parents do not have much money or health insurance; the services are free to all patients, although insurance is accepted from those who are insured.

Thomas has continued her legacy of charity and donation through her publications of The Right Words at the Right Time volumes I and II.[1][2] Both books are collections of essays written by celebrities and fans of Thomas, explaining when a friend, family member or perfect stranger said the right thing in the author's time of need. All proceeds go to her charity (St. Jude's Hospital).

In recent years, Thomas has appeared in guest shots on Ally McBeal, Friends (as Rachel's mother, Sandra Green), and made several guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, playing attorney and former judge, Mary Conway Clark, who had a mentoring relationship with assistant District Attorney, Casey Novak. She also appeared in the 2000 comedy Playing Mona Lisa with Alicia Witt and Harvey Fierstein.

Thomas is the recipient of four Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and the George Foster Peabody Award. She has been married to talk show host Phil Donahue since 1980. She has no children, but is stepmother to Donahue's five children from his previous marriage. The couple lives in New York City and Connecticut, but Thomas travels to Los Angeles for work or to receive donations to her charity, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Since its launch in 2008, Thomas has been a contributor for wowOwow.com, a website for women to talk culture, politics and gossip.

References

  1. ^ Thomas, Marlo (2002). The Right Words at the Right Time. New York: Atria Books. ISBN 074344650X. 
  2. ^ Thomas, Marlo (2006). The Right Words at the Right Time (Volume II ed.). New York: Atria Books. ISBN 0743497430. 

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