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  1. Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936January 25, 2017) was an American actress, producer, and social advocate.

    • 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.
  2. Feb 9, 2017 · It was called Mary Tyler Moore Enterprises, universally referred to as MTM. They teamed up with young writing duo Allan Burns and James Brooks, and made a counter-proposal to CBS.

  3. MTM Enterprises (also known as MTM Productions) was an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS. The name for the production company was drawn from Mary Tyler Moore's initials.

  4. When The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered on September 19, 1970, it was not met with overwhelming critical success, and in its first year it did not rank among the top 20 shows of the season.

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  6. Jan 25, 2017 · She and her business partner and husband, future NBC president Grant Tinker, founded MTM in 1969, and turned their first effort, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, into a multiple Emmy-winning ratings...

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