To give the devil her due, Marlo was cute as a bug in “That Girl” era.
One time on his show or in an interview, I heard Phil talk about how he had removed his kids (from his first marriage) from their suburban schools (in Ohio, I think) and enrolled them in majority-black urban public schools so that they wouldn’t grow up to be “racists.” At that point, I realized that Donahue was a monster. Even the Pelosis and Clintons AND even Obamas of the world don’t impose their ideology on their kids, instead enrolling them in the fanciest, whitest private schools they can find.
Growing up in Dayton,OH I was aware of Phil’s start on local WHIO-TV before he went national.