30 Sep 2010 02:58:32
This story started with her father, Danny Thomas, who made Americans laugh for decades as a nightclub performer and actor ("Make Room for Daddy").
Then there are the houseguests. You know, the fellas who dropped by her Southern California house when Marlo was a girl. Guys like Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Red Skelton.
Thomas recounts her laugh-filled childhood — and beyond — in "Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny." She takes the reader not only through her younger years, but up to present day as well.
There's her big success both in front of and behind the camera on the groundbreaking 1960s sitcom "That Girl"; the other big- and small-screen roles; the courtship with and marriage to white-haired TV talker Phil Donahue; and the ongoing work with her father's pride and joy: the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Then there are the houseguests. You know, the fellas who dropped by her Southern California house when Marlo was a girl. Guys like Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Red Skelton.
Thomas recounts her laugh-filled childhood — and beyond — in "Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny." She takes the reader not only through her younger years, but up to present day as well.
There's her big success both in front of and behind the camera on the groundbreaking 1960s sitcom "That Girl"; the other big- and small-screen roles; the courtship with and marriage to white-haired TV talker Phil Donahue; and the ongoing work with her father's pride and joy: the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
