Editing Danny Thomas (section)

== Early life ==
One of 10 children, Danny Thomas was born Amos Muzyad Yaqoob [[Keyrouz|Kairouz]] ({{langx|ar|أموس مزيد يعقوب كيروز}}) on January 6, 1912, in [[Deerfield, Michigan]], to Charles Yaqoob Kairouz ({{langx|ar|تشارلز يعقوب كيروز}}) and his wife Margaret Taouk ({{langx|ar|مارغريت طاووق كيروز}}).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thomas|first=Danny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4I3c1kRXp9kC&q=danny+thomas+biography|title=Make Room for Danny|date=1992|publisher=Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated|isbn=978-0-425-13394-1|language=en}}</ref> His parents were [[Maronite Church|Maronite Catholic]] immigrants from what is now [[Bsharri]], Lebanon.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A17CD6FF7E80&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | title=Danny Thomas, 79, a Comedian Who Championed a Cause | website=The Philadelphia Inquirer | date=February 7, 1991 |url-access=limited |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009093021/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A17CD6FF7E80&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | archive-date=2013-10-09 }}</ref>

Thomas was raised in [[Toledo, Ohio]], attending St. Francis de Sales Church, [[Woodward High School (Toledo, Ohio)|Woodward High School]].{{sfn|Thomas|Davidson|1991|p=41}}

Bishop [[Samuel Stritch]] of Toledo [[Confirmation in the Catholic Church|confirmed]] Thomas in the Catholic Church in 1921.{{sfn|Thomas|Davidson|1991|p=168}} Stritch, a native of Tennessee, was a lifelong spiritual advisor for Thomas, and would later advise him to locate the St. Jude Hospital in Memphis.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=d7e8fa3186e70110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=bc67ef9e87018010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121228090429/https://stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=d7e8fa3186e70110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=bc67ef9e87018010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-28 |title=Danny's Dream |publisher=Stjude.org |access-date=2011-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Sanderson |first=Jane |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20073527,00.html |title=St. Jude Children's Hospital Was Danny Thomas' Dream, but Dr. Alvin Mauer Makes It Come True |magazine=People |date=April 30, 1979 |access-date=2011-01-14}}</ref>

In 1932, Thomas began performing on radio in Detroit at [[WDTK|WMBC]] on ''The Happy Hour Club''. Thomas first performed under his [[Anglicisation|anglicized]] birth name, "Amos Jacobs Kairouz".<ref name=":0"/>

In 1936, a week after his 24th birthday, Thomas married Rose Marie Cassaniti.{{sfn|Thomas|Davidson|1991|pp=62–63}}

In 1940, after he moved to Chicago, Thomas did not want his friends and family to know he had gone back into working clubs where the salary was better, so he came up with the pseudonym "Danny Thomas" (after two of his brothers).<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/07/obituaries/danny-thomas-79-the-tv-star-of-make-room-for-daddy-dies.html |title=Danny Thomas, 79, the TV Star of 'Make Room for Daddy', Dies|date=February 7, 1991|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2011-09-29 |first=Mervyn |last=Rothstein}}</ref>