Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

StrictlyConfidential Let me tell ya - If I ever happen to encounter a girl who even comes close to being like "that" girl - I will run, run, run away in "that" opposite direction - Like - Pronto! I really will.My overall summary of "That Girl" goes like this - It was an irksome, ill-conceived TV show all about a dumb, clueless, annoying blond who just happened to be a brunette. End of story.As far as the Ann Marie character being a "struggling actress" goes - With a super-low IQ like hers - It's no wonder she was struggling - 'Cause - (Let's face it) - Real-life actress, Marlo Thomas (who played that girl) couldn't act her way out of a wet, paper bag. (Nope. Not even if her life depended on it)Anyway - I cannot believe that this dreary, painfully predictable TV show was such a big, comedy hit way back in the mid-1960s ('cause it actually endured for 5 unbelievably awful seasons).

Amy Adler Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas, Danny Thomas' daughter in case you've never heard) is a single lady living in Manhattan. Her ambition is to make it as an actress on Broadway but between small gigs on children's television, commercials and experimental theater, she must work other jobs. These include news stand salesclerk (where she meets someone special), waitress, door-to-door shoe hawker, and more. On one of her first days in NYC, she meets Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) and its an auspicious beginning. They both want to buy the same rolltop desk for sale in the same building and Don interrupts a commercial Ann is shooting after hours. But, in short order, they go to dinner. Pretty soon, they are stepping out steadily and, after a disastrous picnic, meet Ann's folks. While Ann's mother (Rosemary DeCamp) is loving and kind, Ann's father, Lew (Lew Parker, hilarious) is a prickly restaurateur. He, Ann, and Don often clash on many topics. Also, Ann is on very friendly terms with the couple across the hall, Judy and Leon, and Don's co-workers include Bernie (Bernie Kopell) before he went to the Love Boat. By the fifth season, will Ann and Don finally tie the knot? This will always be one of my favorite shows from childhood. First, it was and is very funny, with Thomas exhibiting very comedic talents as zany Ann. Bessell is a perfect foil and Parker is a delight, too. Secondly, Ann was a single lady decorating her own apartment, pursuing her own dreams, choosing her own friends and more. Yes, most gals like me wanted to get married AT SOME POINT but, first, we wanted to live the good life by our own merits! Naturally, Ann's costumes are terrific, her hairstyle was one we tried to copy, and her tastes became our tastes. Dear Marlo Thomas, as Ann's alter ego, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A HEROINE TO ME. After all, you were one of the first to show women everywhere that women's goals and ambitions MATTERED!

Maria Trim Never heard of this show before as its from the states, and in the sixties i lived abroad a lot so would never have seen it. I stumbled over it literally on Amazon and gave it a go. I really enjoyed it, and just finished it, and feel well kind of sad to be honest as it was a joy to watch, innocent, funny, and true to the period. When i was in the late sixties and engaged i had to be in by 9pm or else. I loved Ann Maries clothes they brought back so many memories i found it got better with each series, and she changed too into a very beautiful women towards the end. I got the premise of the show, in the days its set women were not seen living on their own especially independent living in NY. Her father was typical of the day just like my father was with me. Well he meant well lol. In wasn't un-heard of for people even engaged in the sixties never to actually have sex don't forget birth control wasn't the best and well some couples believe it was right to wait for marriage. I wish it had gone on for longer, i really did enjoy it and Ted Bessell was a bit of eye candy very sad he died so young not long after this show ended. Its worth a watch as i said it gets better as it moves through the series. I had never heard of the actress before, she was excellent and funny and did the part well. I am sure anyone will enjoy this. Its a bit of nostalgia.

calvinnme ... or if not that, Ted Bessell as one of the most sexually frustrated men of 1960's New York City. If the Mary Tyler Moore show had first aired in 1966 instead of 1970, it would have been this show. American culture changed that quickly. Marlo Thomas plays a young woman, Ann Marie, from the village of Brewster, New York who comes to the big city to become an actress, which is a tough career to break into, thus she takes a series of quirky jobs to get by which often become the central theme of certain episodes. In the very first episode she meets Donald (Ted Bessell), a writer for a magazine, and they are a couple for the next five years, a couple that - apparently - never has sex.Back home, Ann's dad (Lew Parker) never quite trusts Donald's intentions with his daughter, and believes that girls should live at home until married. Thus a mainstay of the show is dad bursting in on Ann and Donald, either incidentally or intentionally, only to find them in what appears to be a compromising position (Ah ha! I've got him!) that in the end has a logical and platonic explanation.If you didn't live through this period in history, you might think of the 1960's and believe it was nothing but an endless parade of hippies, pot smoking, and student/police confrontations over the Vietnam War. The fact is, most people in 1960's America were still living in the 1950's at the time, and women were still largely accepted only in traditional professions - teaching, nursing, secretarial work, acting - you know, jobs that involve either serving men or children. So That Girl was about as far as network TV could go with this topic - a young woman living in her own apartment pursuing a career in ANYTHING in New York City - without raising middle class eyebrows.It was bright, funny, and innocent, sometimes to the point of being naive, but I'll always look back fondly on "That Girl" of my youth.