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BLP sources|date=April 2012Infobox person| name = Marlo Thomas| image = Marlo Thomas at the 1989 Emmy Awards.jpg| caption = Thomas at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards, September 17, 1989| birth_name = Margaret Julia Thomas| birth_date = birth date and age|1937|11|21| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan , United States | yearsactive = 1960–present| occupation = Actress, producer, activist| spouse = Phil Donahue (1980–present) Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas (born November 21, 1937) is an American actress, producer, and social activist known for her starring role on the TV series That Girl (1966–1971). She also serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital .
Early life
Thomas was born in Detroit, Michigan , the eldest child of comedian Danny Thomas (1912–1991) and his wife, the former Rose Marie Cassaniti (1914–2000). On her mother's side, she is also the granddaughter of drummer and percussionist, Marie "Mary" Cassaniti (1896–1972). Her brother, Tony Thomas (producer)|Tony Thomas , is a television and film producer, and her sister, Terre Thomas, is a former actress. Her father was Lebanese-American and her mother was Italian-American. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/articles/web-extras/2010/nov/03/guest-picks-marlo-thomas/
Marlo Thomas was raised in Beverly Hills, California . Her parents called her Margo as a child, though she soon became known as Marlo, she told The New York Times , because of her childhood mispronunciation of the nickname. She attended Marymount High School in Los Angeles. Thomas graduated from the University of Southern California with a teaching degree; "I wanted a piece of paper that said I was qualified to do something," she said. She was also a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta .cite news| author=Judy Stone| title=And Now—Make Room for Marlo| url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html? res=F50C17F83455117B93C6A91782D85F428685F9| work= The New York Times | date=4 September 1966| publisher=NYTimes.com| accessdate=2012-01-02
Career
Early career
Thomas was a regular on The Joey Bishop Show (sitcom)|The Joey Bishop Show from 1961 to 1962, playing Joey's star-struck sister, Stella Barnes. She followed the series with guest appearances on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis , Ben Casey , The Twilight Zone , My Favorite Martian , and Bonanza .cite book| author=Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh| title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946& nbsp;– Present| publisher=Ballantine Books| date=12 October 1981| isbn=978-0-345-29588-0 In 1967, she and her father Danny Thomas provided the voices of Caleb and his daughter Bertha in the Rankin-Bass animated adaption of Charles Dickens classic novella The Cricket on the Hearth .
That Girl
Thomas signed a contract with American Broadcasting Company|ABC in 1966, to star in the network's newest sitcom, That Girl . Thomas played Ann Marie an up-and-coming actress who's the girlfriend to Donald Hollinger (played by Ted Bessell ). The series told the day-to-day struggles of Ann: holding different temp jobs and how she desperately wants a movie career. The series was the first television show to focus on a single girl who doesn't live with her parents. The show's premise is saidCn|date=May 2012 to have been the basis of the storylines of two future shows: The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Murphy Brown .
That Girl became popular for its opening theme in which ended with someone saying "...that girl", in which Ann then appears on the screen and the words "That Girl" appear over a freeze-frame shot of Ann. The sequence was different for every episode and usually indicated what the episode was going to be about. This Motif (narrative)|motif was abandoned in season five and was replaced with lyrics.
Despite being a solid ratings performer on ABC, That Girl never reached the overall top 30. Thomas requested ending the show after season four, even though was still in the top 35. ABC convinced her to do one more year. In the beginning of season five, Ann and Donald get engaged but never marry. Thomas didn't want to send a message to young girls that marriage was their main goal. The series was cancelled in 1971, after 136 episodes. During the show's five-year-run, Thomas won a Golden Globe and was nominated for a Emmy four times.
Later career
After That Girl , Thomas released a children's book, Free to Be... You and Me , which was inspired by her young niece Dionne Thomas. She went on to create multiple recordings and television specials of and related to that title: Free to Be... You and Me (1972 and 1974) and Free to Be... A Family (1987), with Christopher Cerf .
In 1973, Marlo Thomas joined Gloria Steinem , Patricia Carbine, and Letty Cottin Pogrebin as the founders of the country’s first women’s fund, the Ms. Foundation for Women . The organization was created to deliver funding and other resources to organizations that were presenting women’s voices in communities nationwide.
Adept at drama as well as comedy , Thomas appeared in the television movies It Happened One Christmas (1977) (a remake of '' It's a Wonderful Life with Thomas in the rewritten James Stewart (actor)|James Stewart role),cite book| author=Leonard Maltin, ed.| title=TV Movies Video Guide 1991 Edition| publisher=Signet Books| date=October 1990| isbn=0-451-16748-1 Nobody's Child (1986), and The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck (1984) while she starred in films Jenny (TV movie)|Jenny (1970) and Thieves (film)|Thieves (1977).
Thomas's Broadway theatre credits include Thieves (play)|Thieves (1974), Social Security (play)|Social Security (1986, in 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 's play ''New Year's Eve with Keith Carradine and Natasha Gregson Wagner . Thomas appeared as Margaret (as the client with a vicious dog) in an uncredited role in the film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999).
Marlo Thomas is also active with the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee , where she serves as the national outreach director. She is donating all royalties from her 2004 book and CD , Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long|Thanks & Giving: All Year Long (also produced with Cerf), to the hospital, which was started by her late father, Danny Thomas . The organization helps gravely ill young children.
Thomas has further supported charity through her publications of the two volumes of The Right Words at the Right Time .cite book| last=Thomas| first=Marlo| title=The Right Words at the Right Time| location=New York| publisher=Atria Books| year=2002| isbn=0-7434-4650-X cite book| last=Thomas| first=Marlo| title=The Right Words at the Right Time| edition=Volume II| location=New York| publisher=Atria Books| year=2006| isbn=0-7434-9743-0
In recent years, Thomas has made guest appearances on Ally McBeal , Friends (as Rachel's mother, Sandra Green), as well as on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (she played Judge Mary Conway Clark, a mentor of former ADA Casey Novak). She also appeared in the 2000 comedy Playing Mona Lisa .
From October 2011 to January 29, 2012, Thomas starred in a Broadway play called George Is Dead written by Elaine May , which was part of an anthology play, Relatively Speaking (2011 play)|Relatively Speaking , which also featured plays written by Ethan Cohen ( Talking Cure ) and Woody Allen ( Honeymoon Motel ).cite news| title=Relatively Speaking Star Marlo Thomas| url= http://www.playbill.com/news/article/156831-PLAYBILLCOMS-CUE-A-Relatively-Speaking-Star-Marlo-Thomas| author=Matthew Blank| date=22 November 2011| work= Playbill | publisher=Playbill.com| accessdate=2012-01-02
In 2012, she co-starred in the film LOL (2012 film)|LOL , opposite Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore .
Thomas is a contributor to Web site wowOwow .com and edits MarloThomas.com at the Huffington Post.
Honors
Thomas is the recipient of four Emmy Awards , a Golden Globe Award , a Grammy Award , a Jefferson Award and the George Foster Peabody Award .
In 1996, she was awarded the Women in Film Los Angeles|Women in Film Women_in_Film_Crystal_+_Lucy_Awards#THE_LUCY_AWARD|Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.cite web| title=Past Recipients| url= http://wif.org/past-recipients| publisher=Women in Film| accessdate=2012-01-02
Personal life
After her relationship with playwright Herb Gardner , Thomas married talk show host Phil Donahue in 1980.cite news| author=Katie Kelly| title=Marlo Thomas: 'My Whole Life I've Had My Dukes Up| url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html? res=F2071FFD3F54137A93C3A81788D85F478785F9| work=The New York Times| publisher=NYTimes.com| date=11 March 1973| accessdate=2012-01-02 Through the marriage, she has five stepchildren.
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Episode: "The One with the Baby Shower"
2004
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http://www.stjude.org St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
http://www.wowowow.com/users/marlo Marlo Thomas at http://www.wowowow.com/ wowOwow
http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp? vgnextoid=a2f4fa2454e70110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD& vgnextchannel=5fb213c016118010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD All About Marlo Thomas at http://www.stjude.org StJude.org
http://ms.foundation.org/about_us/our-history Our History at http://ms.foundation.org Ms. Foundation for Women
http://marlothomas.aol.com Marlo Thomas at http://marlothomas.aol.com AOL
http://lifestyle.unratedmagazine.com/2010/10/marlo-thomas-discussion-and-signing-for.html Marlo Thomas Book Signing, Oak Brook, IL, October 26, 2010
http://relativelyspeakingbroadway.com/about/cast Relatively Speaking web site
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