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starring: Ted Bessell, Marlo Thomas directed by: Ted Bessell, Hal Cooper, King Donovan, Roger Duchowny, John Erman Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780764005350 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 0764005359 Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Release Date: April 13, 1999 Running Time: 75 minutes Sales Rank: 46578 Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 1966 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 'Diamonds, daisies, snowflakes... sable, popcorn, white wine... is that girl,' describes the opening theme music of TV's That Girl about the independent Ann Marie, a young actress trying to make it on her own in New York City in the late 1960s. Before Mary Richards 'made it after all' in Minneapolis, Marlo Thomas portrayed the feisty Ann, a seemingly feminist woman (by modern standards, her desire to please her father and her devotion to being the perfect girl for her boyfriend Donald seem less than liberated) who gets herself into scrapes and mishaps of the variety familiar to those who grew up on I Love Lucy as she attempts to become an actress. The three episodes on 'Auditions, Auditions, Auditions' deal, not surprisingly, with Ann's endeavors to get on the stage or screen. In the first, 'Call of the Wild,' Ann, for once, is upset to get a role: she wins the part of 'Miss Creamy Girl' in a soap ad because of her lack of sex appeal (she's 'like hot dogs, apple pie... the girl scout that stays a girl scout forever'). To spice up her act, she decides try out a striptease routine, only to have her father walk in on her. 'Nobody Here but Us Chickens' has Ann going for new lows in the form of 'Miss Chicken Big.' She takes acting lessons from a chicken, performs a courtship dance in a hideous bright yellow chicken suit, and fends off advances from Chicken Big's big chicken, Major Culpepper (played with hick charm by Slim Pickens). Finally, in 'The Snow Must Go On,' Ann and Donald need to drop Ann's parents off at Kennedy airport and get Ann back into the city in time for an important Broadway audition. But an incoming blizzard threatens to strand all of them at the airport, and they must cope in the best way they can: Ann tries to audition over the phone, Donald works on a story, and Ann's father hoards sandwiches when the restaurant runs low on food. --Jenny Brown |
