Growing Up Laughing My Story and the Story of Funny

Marlo Thomas

eBook - 2010

"Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny is a book that only Marlo Thomas could write — a smart and gracious, witty and confident autobiographical journey. For as long as Marlo Thomas can remember, she's lived with laughter. Born to comedy royalty—TV and nightclub star Danny Thomas—she grew up among legendary funny men, carved much of her career in comedy and, to this day, surrounds herself with people who love and live to make others laugh. In this long-awaited memoir, Thomas takes us on a funny and heartwarming adventure, from her Beverly Hills childhood, to her groundbreaking creation of That Girl and Free to Be . . . You and Me, to her rise as one of America's most beloved actress-comediennes, to her ma...rriage to talk-show king Phil Donahue. Her youth was star-studded—Milton Berle performed magic tricks (badly) at her backyard birthday parties. George Burns, Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart and other great comics passed...

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Published
Hachette Books
Language
English
Main Author
Marlo Thomas
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size4 GB
ISBN9781401396176
Release Date9/28/2010
Kindle Book
ISBN9780316371841
ASINB0042VJ1PS
Release Date9/28/2010
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781401396176
Release Date9/28/2010