That Girl
 Marlo Thomas (the very beautiful wife of Phil Donahue and daughter of
well-known comedian Danny Thomas), starred as Ann Marie ("Marie" is her surname),
an aspiring actress who moves from her parents' comfortable suburban
home in the small town of Brewster, NY to the
big smoke of New York City to try and make it.
High-spirited Ann - a "new independent woman" - moves into Apartment 4D at 344 West 78th Street
and finds a boyfriend in Don Hollinger, an agent in
George Lester and a drama coach in Jules Benedict.
While
she waits impatiently for the world to discover her talent, she takes
odd jobs (selling shoes & perfume and working at Macys and as a
waitress), copes with parents who don't understand her and rushes from
one audition to the next while having the time of her life.
 Most of the acting assignments she receives are truly ridiculous (eg:
dressing up as a chicken to sell 'Chicken Big') and include a scenario
where she opens her eyes while playing a corpse on a live TV show.
The character of Ann Marie was arguably the first true feminist on
TV, single and independent. But while she is an adamant supporter and
defender of women's rights, she still expects men to behave like
gentlemen in her presence.
Her boyfriend (later her fiancé) Don (a reporter for Newsview
magazine) is constantly exasperated by the chaos and confusion which
seems to follow Ann around.
Other characters who appeared in the show regularly were Ann's
mother and father, Lou and Helen Marie, Ann's neighbours, Judy and
Dr Leon Bessemer, Marcy, Donald's parents Bert and Mildred
Hollinger, Ann's friends Marcy and Ruth and Jerry Bauman, and
Seymour and Margie Schwimmer.
In recent times, Marlo Thomas featured as Rachel's mother, Sandra
Greene, in Friends
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