Marlo Thomas descends from Italians and Lebanese. No, not lesbians, though imagine how happy that would make her husband, talk-show host Phil Donahue. We’d know why his hair turned white. Still, it’s a good bet that Marlo knows her way around a bedroom. She certainly knows her way around the studio system, having first worked on the boob tube in the late ‘50s on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis among others, and into the ‘60s on Bonanza, McHale’s Navy, and Ben Casey. By the mid-‘60s, Marlo hit the big time as That Girl. The show ended in the early ‘70s and she won a Golden Globe for her work on it, but it left Marlo typecast as the perky girl, so she turned that around and went against type in Jenny (1970), playing an unwed mother. But it was as a mother figure that Marlo began her second act. She starred in and produced the popular TV special Free to Be…You & Me and even played Jennifer Aniston’s mom on Friends as well as Miley Cyrus’s nana in LOL (2012). With a career that has spanned nearly 70 years, Marlo remains sexy and active, regularly working in TV and movies. She brings that sexy out in full force when she plays one of Rob Schneider’s clients in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999). When Deuce walks into the room dressed like a German schoolboy, he finds Marlo on the bed wearing nothing but some sexy lingerie. She drops some serious cleavage when she takes charge, throws him down, and mounts up. Marlo’s mams will have you making friends with your naughty bits.
