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DVD That Girl - Season One
In the flapper era, Clara Bow was the It girl. In the liberated 1960s, Marlo Thomas was all That. Her groundbreaking character, Ann Marie, opened the door for a new generation of independent women on TV who just might make it after all. Ann was not a wife, mother, daughter, girlfriend, ditzy neighbor, sidekick, or fantasy object (neither genie nor witch). She was something new and contemporary, an aspiring actress who leaves home to pursue her career in New York City. "You did a wonderful job helping me grow up, but now I'm up," she sweetly tells her overprotective parents (an Emmy-worthy Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp) in "Goodbye, Hello, Goodbye." That Girl was not a total break from TV convention. In this inaugural season, she has a kinda kooky neighbor and Rhoda-antecedent, Judy (Bonnie Scott). And she has a boyfriend, magazine writer Donald Hollinger (Ted Bessell), whom she meets cute in the first aired episode, "Don't Just Do Something, Stand There." Ann and Donald are one of TV's great comedy teams. They have a delightful Barefoot in the Park-like chemistry, with Ann the vivacious, more free-spirited one, and Donald the more practical one. One of their best episodes is "Anatomy of a Blunder," in which Donald suffers every disaster and indignity en route to meet Ann's father for the first time. Thomas was honored with a Golden Globe award for this season, and the series established her as "talented, unusual, a bright new face" (to quote the want ad Ann is desperate to answer in "You Have to Know Someone to Be an Unknown").
One of the other kicks of reuniting with That Girl is the stellar roster of veteran character actors and future stars. Dabney Coleman, Bernie Kopell (Get Smart, The Love Boat), and Ronnie Schell (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) are regulars this season. Guest stars include Sally Kellerman and George Carlin in "Break a Leg," Rob Reiner and "Terry" Garr in "This Little Piggy Had a Ball" (the inevitable bowling-ball-stuck-on-the-toe episode), and a pre-All in the Family Carroll O'Connor as an amorous opera singer in "A Tenor's Loving Care." That Girl is so-'60s, but as with The Dick Van Dyke Show, on which series creators Sam Denoff and Bill Persky previously worked, the literate, character-driven comedy holds up remarkably well. --Donald Liebenson
I notice a lot of reviewers are women who watched the show as young girls and wanted to be like Ann Marie. Nothing wrong with that; I was a young boy who wanted to grow up to be Ann Marie's boyfriend. But the show was a product of its time; it's good for nostalgia, but is not a classic like some other shows of the 60s such as "Dick Van Dyke" or "Andy Griffith". First, Marlo was just a bit too old for the role; she was a 29-year-old playing a girl leaving her parents' home for the first time. I don't know if Ann's age was ever mentioned, but I would guess early 20s. Second, her acting was just a bit over the top, even playing an excitable character. In observing Marlo's exagerrated facial expressions and dialogue delivery, I'm reminded of Rachael Ray after too many cups of coffee. Finally, in viewing these old episodes, my enjoyment is reduced by the knowledge that the cute, bubbly Ann Marie grew up to marry not Don Hollinger -- but Phil Donahue. And became a bitter, liberal ultra-feminist. Lou Marie is rolling over in his grave.
You will love That Girl
This was a great set, I can't wait til Season Two comes out.
The clothes and the actors were just fantastic, you will love Season One.
That Girl...In Color...
Diamonds, Daisies, Snowflakes,
That Girl
Chestnuts, Rainbows, Springtime...
Is That Girl
She's tinsel on a tree...
She's everything that every girl should be!
Sable, Popcorn, White Wine,
That Girl
Gingham, Bluebirds, Broadway...
Is That Girl
She's mine alone, but luckily for you...
If you find a girl to love,
Only one girl to love,
Then she'll be That Girl too...
That Girl!
Oh, yeah...I remember That Girl...maybe not when it first came out, but I do remember the reruns on Los Angeles channel KTTV, channel 11...I must've been like six years old and I was flippin' the knob as fast as I could...remember doing that?...and all of the sudden the television landed on a show with this beautiful girl on it. Like I said, I was only six but I knew a beautiful lady when I saw one and she was definitely beautiful. Little did I know I was forming a lifelong passion for brunettes.
When you watch this show now it was so hokey and so corny, but I think that's what makes it so endearing, just this gentle, sweet innocence going on and there wasn't too much innocence going on in the sixties. People were ripping the blinders off their eyes and seeing things not only as they were, but as they could be. Despite all the bloodshed, the rebellion, the anger, I think the sixties were a very pivotal point in not only the history of the United States, but the whole world. People began to really tune into life at this time. People began to understand that the individual plays a HUGE ROLE in the transformation of the world. But if you asked my dad about the 60s, he'll just say it was all about "dirty, stinky hippies in dire need of a shower." That could be true, too...
But anyway, back to our program...this was a great and wonderful show about a girl struggling to be her own woman...her own person...that in itself is a wonderful premise. Like Shakespeare once said, "To thine ownself be true...." We must learn to be true to ourselves, to our ideals, to our values so we can look at those naysayers in the face and say proudly, "I may fall 1,000 times, but I will still get up..."
The 60s were all about the empowerment of the individual. What happened? Now everyone wants to be the same. It's like we have become too conformed to life...too prepackaged...I go to the mall and everyone wants to look like Brittney Spears or Paris Hilton...those girls are role models?
Excuse me while I barf...
Marlo Thomas was a role model for women 40 years ago and she is still a role model for women...and she is still just as beautiful if not more so. Maybe what this country needs is a good war...yeah, that'll stir things up a bit...oh, wait...sorry...scratch that...maybe what we need are more people who are willing not only to exude passionate individualism, but also sweet and gentle transfomation, as well.
Great Show. Definitely belongs on any serious 60s fan list.
One of the all-time great TV stars, Marlo Thomas--with her false eyelashes, fab flip, and an adorable raspy squeak when she got excited--achieved iconic status with That Girl, a top-rated and culture-busting show about the comic trials of an aspiring actress/model in 1960s New York City. Thomas (and her on-screen alter ego, Ann Marie) combined the poise and fashion sense of Audrey Hepburn, the bubbly good cheer of Annette Funicello, and the sly smarts of Claudette Colbert into one surprisingly hip small town girl in the big city. Though dozens of great guest-stars (from Bill Bixby to Ethel Merman) pass through the show and the supporting cast (including Bernie Kopell, The Love Boat, as a neighbor, and Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp as Ann's parents) is topnotch, That... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 14 November 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you look at the premise of Here Come the Brides on paper, the whole series sounds rather bizarre: three brothers head East to find 100 young women who agree to move to untamed Seattle to marry the single men in town. The potential brides have to remain in Seattle for at least a year. If they don't, the siblings could lose their family business. But this show isn't set in a society where there's a Starbucks on every corner. Rather, it takes place in the late 19th century. Add some sassy dialogue and throw in Bobby Sherman and David Soul as youngest brother Jeremy and middle brother Joshua, respectively, and voila! The show evokes charming innocence, if not antiquated notions of how the sexes should behave. The episode in which a visiting Mormon bogarts four of the women for his... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Bobby Sherman - Mark Lenard DVD Release Date: Released the 16 May 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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