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Exclusive Portraits: Activist Couple Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue

25 April 2011 7:56 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Being the daughter of comedian Danny Thomas, Marlo Thomas certainly was appropriate in naming her latest book, “Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny.” She and her husband Phil Donahue recently were in Chicago to promote the memoir.

Marlo Thomas broke out apart from her famous father, becoming a TV star with her sitcom “That Girl” from 1966 to 1971. She has continued to work as an actress since then, but has also focused on writing, activism (for children and feminist issues) and directing her late father’s prominent charity, the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Growing Up Laughing is her fifth book.

That Girl: Marlo Thomas at Borders Oakbrook, October 26th, 2010

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com.

Phil Donahue was a broadcaster that began in the late 1950s, and eventually started a talk show in 1967 called “The Phil Donahue Show. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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