Marlo ThomasFilmography

Born:: November 21, 1937 in Detroit, MI
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: Anyone who watched the old TV sitcom Make Room for Daddy will remember that it was produced by a company called Marterto. This corporate name was an amalgam of the names of Danny Thomas' children: Margaret, Terry, and Tony. By 1959, Margaret Thomas had undergone a little cosmetic surgery, changed...Read More

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A Moment in Time: Conversations With Legendary Women - First Ladies/First Victories

Actors: Lady Bird Johnson, Marlo Thomas, Billie Jean King

2006
Deceit

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The life of wealthy Ellen McCarthy (Marlo Thomas) is thrown into disarray when her husband Grove (William Devane) disappears at sea during a voyage on the family yacht. Evidence indicates that Grove has drowned, and the police have reason to suspect that Ellen was responsible. As the investigation Read More

2004
Great Women of Television and Comedy

Synopsis: Organized by New York's Museum of Television and Radio, this impressively assembled tribute to the funny women boasts a stellar all-female cast, drawn from half a century's worth of video entertainment. Hosted by Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), the special uses rare film clips and interviews to pay Read More

2003
Two Against Time

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Divesting herself of her useless husband, Julie Portman (Marlo Thomas) is determined to raise her two children by herself, despite the emotional roadblocks set up by her resentful and rebellious teenage daughter Emma (Ellen Muth). Things reach the crisis stage when both mother and daughter are Read More

2002
Playing Mona Lisa

Actors: Alicia Witt

Synopsis: Claire Goldstein (Alicia Witt) is a 23-year old classical pianist and student in San Francisco who gets dumped by a boyfriend, is evicted from her home following an earthquake and rejected by a major music competition, and becomes romantically involved with a charming two-timer (Ivan Sergei). But Read More

2000
Ally McBeal: 'Tis the Season

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

2000
Intimate Portrait: Marlo Thomas

2000
Ally McBeal: Love on Holiday

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

2000
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Actors: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: Yet another Saturday Night Live alumnus makes his bid for big-screen success as Rob Schneider, best remembered as the "Making copies!" guy, tackles his first leading role in this broad comedy. Deuce (Rob Schneider) earns a meager living as a professional fish tank cleaner until he's asked to Read More

12/10/99
Frasier: Our Parents, Ourselves

Synopsis: Frasier's dad Martin (John Mahoney) is an eligible widower. Roz's mom Joanna (Eva Marie Saint) is likewise unattached. Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Roz (Peri Gilpin) are thus convinced that the union between Martin and Joanna would be the proverbial "match made in Heaven." The results: Joanna is Read More

1999
Starstruck

Actors: Jamie Kennedy, Loren Dean, Clarence Williams III, Bridgette Wilson, Spencer Garrett

Synopsis: A struggling filmmaker trying to climb the show business ladder befriends an actor who's heading down the same ladder at a furious pace in this dark comedy. George (Jamie Kennedy), an aspiring writer who does temp work to make ends meet, longs to break into show business where he can get to know Read More

1998
Rosie O'Donnell's Kids Are Punny

Actors: Rosie O'Donnell

Synopsis: Important issues that may affect a child's life are portrayed in a lighthearted but sincere manner in this HBO special based on Rosie O'Donnell's book by the same name. O'Donnell shows how laughter and a sense of humor are a vital part of dealing with things that might be beyond one's immediate Read More

1998
The Real Blonde

Actors: Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Maxwell Caulfield, Elizabeth Berkley

Synopsis: This romantic comedy from writer and director Tom DiCillo follows some New York City pals seeking authenticity with the real blonde, a symbol of amorous perfection. Joe (Matthew Modine) is an out-of-work actor struggling for even bit parts in Madonna music videos by groveling in front of a Read More

1997
Friends: The One with the Lesbian Wedding

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas guest stars as Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) mother, Sandra Green, who shows up at the apartment with startling news. This comes just as Ross' (David Schwimmer) ex-wife, Carol (Jane Sibbett), is about to marry her girlfriend, Susan (Jessica Hecht), in an event catered by Monica (Courteney Cox Read More

1996
Roseanne: Satan, Darling

Actors: Roseanne

Synopsis: In this Halloween episode, Roseanne and Jackie go to a fancy Upper West Side party with Patsy (Joanna Lumley) and Edina (Jennifer Saunders, who co-wrote the episode with Roseanne) from Absolutely Fabulous. Strange things start to happen to the pregnant Darlene in a take on Rosemary's Baby. This Read More

1996
Friends: The One with Two Parties

Synopsis: Chandler (Matthew Perry) invokes memories of Three's Company ("Okay, think! What would Jack and Chrissy do?") when Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) divorcing parents, Sandra (Marlo Thomas) and Leonard (Ron Leibman), show up unexpectedly at her surprise party. To avoid further embarrassment, the party Read More

1996
Reunion

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Peter Strauss, Frances Sternhagen, Courtney Chase, Matthew Kelly, Leelee Sobieski

1994
Ultimate Betrayal

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Mel Harris, Ally Sheedy, Eileen Heckart, Kathryn Dowling

Synopsis: A family is torn apart when two adult sisters decide to take their father to court for sexually abusing them as children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story

Actors: David Dukes, Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas stars as Lucille "Sis" Levin, whose husband Jerry (David Dukes) is an American TV journalist assigned to Beirut in 1984. Jerry is kidnapped by Muslim fundamentalists, a fact kept off the front pages by the State Department, ostensibly because the publicity could cost Jerry his life. Read More

1991
In the Spirit

Actors: Elaine May, Marlo Thomas, Jeannie Berlin, Peter Falk, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Elaine May and Marlo Thomas star in this black comedy taking place in the black comedy capital of the world -- New York City. Elaine May plays Marianne Flan, who moves back to a nightmare New York City from Beverly Hills after her husband, Roger (Peter Falk), has been fired from his job. She hires Read More

4/6/90
Leap of Faith

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Anne Archer, Sam Neill

Synopsis: A young woman learns that she has a lethal, rare kind of cancer. This fact-based, heart-wrenching made-for-TV drama chronicles her struggle to cope with her own personal feelings and those of her family. She then begins looking for alternative ways to treat her disease while her husband deals with Read More

1988
Nobody's Child

Actors: Ray Baker, Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas fully justifies her star status in the made-for-television Nobody's Child. Ms. Thomas portrays the real-life Marie Balter, a Massachusetts woman consigned to a mental hospital after a suicide attempt at age 16. For the next 20 years, Marie is and out of the institution, mostly under Read More

1986
Consenting Adult

Actors: Talia Balsam, Marlo Thomas, Barry Tubb, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Martin Sheen, who in 1972 co-starred in That Certain Summer, the precedent-setting TV movie concerning homosexuality, is cast as the father of an "out of closet" gay son in Consenting Adult. Sheen and his wife Marlo Thomas are devastated when their college-age son Barry Tubb comes forth with Read More

1985
The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film is an Americanized remake of the 1975 German film The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (based on the novel by Heinrich Böll). Shorn of most of her movie-star glamour, Marlo Thomas plays Kathryn Beck, whose one-night stand with handsome Ben Cole (Kris Kristofferson) all but ruins Read More

1983
Thieves

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Hector Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: In this comedy based on a play by Herb Gardner, a zany, disparate couple tries to beat the odds and stay together. The man runs a posh private school and cannot see why his lover prefers teaching in the Lower East Side where they were raised. The two temporarily split, and each of them has an Read More

1977
It Happened One Christmas

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas' first mistake was optioning the classic It's a Wonderful Life for this TV remake; her second was starring in it herself in the Jimmy Stewart part! This gender switch aside, It Happened One Christmas follows the original virtually to the letter. Thomas is a young woman who dreams of Read More

1977
Free to Be... You and Me

Crew: Producer, Teleplay By

Actors: Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas served as both producer and star for this landmark 1974 television special, which, through songs, stories, and comedy sketches, encourages children to accept and celebrate diversity in others, and embrace their own individuality. Guests stars include Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, Harry Read More

1974
Jenny

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda, Marian Hailey, Elizabeth Wilson, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: Jenny (Marlo Thomas) is a single expectant mother who receives an offer of marriage from Delano (Alan Alda). He wants to avoid the military draft and agrees to marry Jenny despite the fact he is not the child's father, proposing for strictly practical reasons: the baby will have a name and he will Read More

1969
Cricket on the Hearth

Actors: Danny Thomas, Marlo Thomas, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: The Cricket on the Hearth is based on one of Charles Dickens' lesser-known Christmas stories. Bertha, the toymaker's daughter, is the central character. She searches for love and understanding from her father Caleb, who just wants his family to be happy. With the appearance of a good luck cricket Read More

1967
That Girl: Season 01

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Ted Bessel

1966
The Knack ... And How to Get It

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, John Bluthal

Synopsis: Colin (Michael Crawford, who much later won a Tony Award for his role in Broadway's Phantom of the Opera) is an uptight schoolteacher whose housemate, Tolen (Ray Brooks) is a consummate womanizer. Colin imagines a long line of young women in tight white sweaters on his stairwell, waiting to get Read More

1965
Bonanza: A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Hoping to purchase some fireworks from the Chinese Yiphee Trading Company, Hoss Cartwright gets his order scrambled, and as a result winds up with a "picture bride" named Tai Li (Marlo Thomas), aka Pink Cloud. Hardly the shy, retiring type, the feisty, outspoken Tai Li proceeds to make like Read More

1964
My Favorite Martian: Miss Jekyll and Hyde

Synopsis: A pre-That Girl Marlo Thomas guest stars as Paula, the highly intelligent--and highly insecure--niece of landlady Mrs. Brown (Pamela Britton). To prevent Paula from figuring out his true identity, Martin (Ray Walston) tries to distract her by asking Tim (Bill Bixby) to take the girl out. Read More

1964