Marlo Thomas came to television at an interesting time. She was 29 when ‘That Girl!‘ started in 1966. That year was still sort of in what I call ‘old America’. Pre-revolution. TV was nice and simple, non-controversial. That’s the way shows were in 1966. Marlo Thomas, attractive to the max and always wonderfully dressed. She had a personality that was so endearing and this low raspy voice.

From IMDB: “Born in Detroit, Michigan on November 21, 1937, Marlo was christened Margaret Julia Thomas. Raised within the mad Beverly Hills whirl of the entertainment business as the daughter of show business legend Danny Thomas, she was initially dissuaded from an acting career and began a half-hearted adult life as a school teacher. Quickly switching to acting, however, Marlo began with early TV appearances in the late 1950’s on such series as “Dobie Gillis,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “Thriller” and “Zane Grey Theatre”. The [new] pilot was seen by ABC, and they had her tested for another sitcom lead and passed with flying colors. This one stuck did not fail. Audiences adored “That Girl” with the romantic entanglements and struggling ambition of Ann Marie, a single, independent and very trendy young lady in the real world as an actress wannabe. Marlo became an instant household name (as did co-star Ted Bessell) and earned a Golden Globe (“Best TV Star”) and four Emmy nominations during the five-year run of the groundbreaking show.”

[More importantly I just discovered this very moment something vitally important. While Marlo looks ravishing in every picture, she looks even more stupendously scrumptious in the pictures without bangs! Her best pic is the B&W where she’s wearing the white sleeveless top about 7 rows down. I mention this simply as how funny it was as a new student of hers. She took my breath away in the early years of That Girl with bangs, its hard to describe when I saw her in the next stage of her evolution.]

I just love watching the reruns for the clothes she wore. I swear she had the best fashion of any show back then. I’ll always wonder how much was due to her and how much was due to the designer for the show? Either way, the other thing I noticed later in life was the immense sex appeal she had. Strange how I missed it back then… she was sexy because she didn’t try to be sexy.

THAT is just a really great photo. You’ll notice its a photo of a photo. That’s a fav.

Very nice.