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What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life Audiobook
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Power couple Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue have created a compelling and intimate collection of intriguing conversations with famous couples about their enduring marriages and how they have made them last through the challenges we all share.
What makes a marriage last? Who doesn’t want to know the answer to that question? To unlock this mystery, iconic couple Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue crisscrossed the country and conducted intimate conversations with forty celebrated couples whose long marriages they’ve admired—from award-winning actors, athletes, and newsmakers to writers, comedians, musicians, and a former U.S. president and First Lady. Through these conversations, Marlo and Phil also revealed the rich journey of their own marriage.
What Makes a Marriage Last offers practical and heartfelt wisdom for couples of all ages, and a rare glimpse into the lives of husbands and wives we have come to know and love. Marlo and Phil’s frequently funny, often touching, and always engaging conversations span the marital landscape—from that first rush of new love to keeping that precious spark alive, from navigating hard times to celebrating triumphs, from balancing work and play and family to growing better and stronger together. At once intimate, candid, revelatory, hilarious, instructive, and poignant, this book is a beautiful gift for couples of every age and stage.
Featuring interviews with:
Alan and Arlene Alda • Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter • James Carville and Mary Matalin
Deepak and Rita Chopra • Patricia Cornwell and Staci Gruber
Bryan Cranston and Robin Dearden • Billy and Janice Crystal
Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest • Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
Viola Davis and Julius Tennon • Gloria and Emilio Estefan
Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan • Chip and Joanna Gaines
Sanjay and Rebecca Gupta • Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka • Ron and Cheryl Howard
Jesse and Jacqueline Jackson • Elton John and David Furnish
John and Justine Leguizamo • LL Cool J and Simone I. Smith
Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone • John McEnroe and Patty Smyth
Mehmet and Lisa Oz • Rodney and Holly Robinson Peete
Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Bert Pogrebin • Rob and Michele Reiner
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos • Al Roker and Deborah Roberts
Ray and Anna Romano • Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams
Judges Judy and Jerry Sheindlin • George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth
Sting and Trudie Styler • Capt. Chesley “Sully” and Lorrie Sullenberger
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner • Judith and Milton Viorst
Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt • Bob Woodward and Elsa Walsh
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“Warmhearted testimony to enduring relationships…The authors’ disarming ebullience makes them endearing interviewers.”
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“Delightful and instructive…Love and understanding shine through in this inspiring collection.”
— Publishers Weekly
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About the Authors
Marlo Thomas is the author of several bestselling books, including Free to Be…You and Me, Thanks and Giving: All Year Long, and her memoir, Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny. She has won Emmys, a Golden Globe, a Grammy, and the Peabody Award, and has been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. She lives in New York with her husband, Phil Donahue.
Ryan Vincent Anderson is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.
About the Narrators
Ryan Vincent Anderson is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.
Maggi-Meg Reed has performed as an actress and singer both on and off-Broadway. She is a narrator of many popular audiobooks, including A Very Long Engagement and The Time Traveler’s Wife. She is the winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards.
Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has twice won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, an Audie Award for directing, and many Earphones Awards. Her film and television acting credits include The Last Days of Disco, Primary Colors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, New York Undercover, National Geographic’s Tales from the Wild, All My Children, and One Life to Live. She regularly gives seminars to members of SAG and AFTRA actors’ unions, and in 2005 she started Narration Arts Workshop in New York City, offering audiobook recording classes and coaching. She holds a BA degree in theater studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in England.
Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
Eileen Stevens is a voice-over actress whose voice can be heard on cartoons, promos, programs for English-language learners, and audiobooks. An Earphones Award–winning narrator, she is also an audiobook director and producer.
A veteran voice artist, Tom Zingarelli has produced and narrated many audiobooks in the last several years. He has also recorded books for the Connecticut State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. His voice was featured on the popular PBS children’s television program Between the Lions and in the off-Broadway production of Ruthless, the Musical.
Thérèse Plummer is an actor, award-winning voice-over artist, and counselor. She has won eighteen AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has appeared in a variety of television and film roles. As a counselor for adolescents, she spent five years using drama therapy techniques in individual and group settings.
Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.