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Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, producer, and social advocate.
May 24, 2023 · As quintessential housewife Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show and quick-witted career woman Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Moore was America’s sweetheart. Producer Lena Waithe...
- Her childhood wasn’t rosy. Born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, Moore and her family moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s when she was eight years old. Her father, George Tyler Moore, a clerk, was emotionally distant and unhappy; her mother, Marjorie, was an alcoholic.
- She was going to grow up to be “on stage or in jail” The leggy and ultra-energetic brunette loved to dance from a young age and she says in the doc that her grandpa once joked that she was going to grow up to be “on stage or in jail.”
- The making of Laura Petrie. Moore was only 23 when she landed the role of capri-pants-wearing housewife Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show in 1961.
- The unmaking of Laura Petrie. After The Dick Van Dyke Show ended in 1966, Moore had to work hard to reestablish herself as a star. She played second fiddle to Julie Andrews in the 1967 musical film, Thoroughly Modern Millie.
May 30, 2019 · One episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was considered to be so morbid that a brand new director had to be brought in to handle it tastefully. And boy did it pay off.
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Jan 25, 2017 · Mary Tyler Moore died of pneumonia at Connecticut's Greenwich Hospital on Wednesday. She was 80. An advocate for diabetes research and animal rights activist in her latter years, Moore came to ...
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Jan 27, 2017 · The star of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" died Wednesday at age 80. Coming up, Ed Ward reconsiders the music of The Monkees. This is FRESH AIR.
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Jan 25, 2017 · The television icon who helped redefine the sitcom, both in front of and behind the camera on her eponymous show, died at age 80.
