{"id":35369,"date":"2017-01-26T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=35369"},"modified":"2017-01-26T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:20:21","slug":"marlo-thomas-mary-tyler-moores-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/marlo-thomas-mary-tyler-moores-contemporary\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlo Thomas, Mary Tyler Moore’s Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was writing about Mary Tyler Moore last night<\/a>, I kept thinking, “Hers wasn’t the only important show about a single working woman living alone in a big city.”\u00a0 But there was so much to say about Moore that I decided I’d write about Marlo Thomas another day. Procrastination in moderation once again worked out fantastically for me, because I got the New York Times today and there was Thomas herself on the front page of the Thursday Styles section.<\/p>\n

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Click to read the whole story on the New York Times website.<\/p><\/div>\n

The story by Penelope Green is pegged to the debut of Thomas’s first clothing line, called “That Woman” — a riff on the name of Thomas’s career-making, slyly feminist sitcom, That Girl<\/em>. (The clothes will be sold on the Home Shopping Network.) That Girl<\/em> aired from 1966 to 1971 — starting the year The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em> ended and overlapping The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em> by one year. Reruns aired all through the ’70s, so I became familiar with mod designers such as Mary Quant and Andre Courreges, despite my relative lack of interest in fashion at that time. Like Mary Tyler Moore on The Dick Van Dyke show, Thomas refused to be clad in in traditional “housewife” looks.<\/p>\n

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