![]() Ann's acting school was modeled after the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre on East 54th Street between First and Second Avenues. In the second-season - with a new exterior - in the episode "Nothing to Be Afreud of but Freud Himself", Donald gives out her address as 344 West 78th Street, Apartment D. In the episode entitled "That Señorita," Ann lists her address as 627 East 54th Street. Initially, the apartment was located off the East River on the Upper East Side, in the former East End Hotel (originally known as the Junior League Hotel for Working Women) at 78th Street and the FDR Drive, as seen in several first season episodes, including "What's in a Name" where Ann can be seen exiting a taxicab. Manhattan exterior shots were filmed in several days. She originally wanted to name the sitcom Miss Independence, the nickname given to her by her parents. Īlthough never officially credited as such (Persky and Denoff were the series' creators and official executive producers), Thomas was also a de facto executive producer of the series through her Daisy Productions, which she formed specifically for the series it was credited on-screen as the production company. Scherick gave Thomas several scripts to read, none of which she liked, as they all focused on a woman who was either a traditional girlfriend, wife or secretary to someone else Thomas wanted a show in which the main character was a young, modern woman focused on her own dreams and aspirations. She's everything that every girl should be!Īccording to Marlo Thomas, she was approached by ABC executive Edgar Scherick, who saw her in a screen test for a failed pilot, but still wanted to feature her in a project. During the first four seasons, the theme song was instrumental only in the fifth and final season, lyrics (written by Denoff) were added: This was followed by the opening credits and theme music (written by Earle Hagen). Intro Įvery episode started with a small cold open the dialogue would always turn to Ann, as one of the characters would make an assertive reference to her as "that girl" the camera would freeze frame on a surprised Ann. She did not want to send a message to young women that marriage was the ultimate goal for them, and she worried that it would have undercut the somewhat feminist message of the show. The decision to leave the couple engaged at the end of the run was largely the idea of Thomas. In the beginning of the fifth season, Don and Ann became engaged, but they never actually married. Thomas' goofy charm, together with Bessell's dry wit, made That Girl a solid performer on the ABC Television Network, although the series never made the top thirty during its entire five-year run.Īt the end of the 1969–1970 season, That Girl was still doing moderately well in the ratings, but after four years Thomas had grown tired of the series and wanted to move on. The show reflected the changing roles of American women in feminist-era America. Ted Bessell, Marlo Thomas and Mary Frann (as Jennifer Douglas, one of her first roles) in a scene from the show, 1968 That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show (which Thomas' father, Danny Thomas, co-produced) earlier in the 1960s. Bernie Kopell and Ruth Buzzi played Ann and Donald's friends. ![]() Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine. It was one of the first sitcoms to focus on an unmarried woman who was not a domestic or living with her parents, a forerunner of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character, Ann Marie, an aspiring (but only sporadically employed) actress who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York, to try to make it big in New York City. That Girl is an American TV series sitcom that ran on ABC from Septemto March 19, 1971. ![]()
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