Background
Born Marguerite Guarnerius (also reported as Guarnery) in Chicago, Illinois to a violin-making family, she grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Born Marguerite Guarnerius (also reported as Guarnery) in Chicago, Illinois to a violin-making family, she grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana.
She attended Indiana University in Bloomington.
At the age of 13, she was afflicted with polio and spent two years in a hip-to-shoulder cast. She began her career as a model with the Ford Modeling Agency (now known as Ford Models) and appeared on the covers of "Vogue" and "Mademoiselle" She also appeared in a number of television commercials and was a "Toni Girl" on Arthur Godfrey"s "Talent Scouts" Signed to 20th Century Fox, her film debut was "Hound-Dog Manitoba", released in 1959 starring Fabian, Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley and Dodie Stevens. Other film appearances included "Wake Maine When lieutenant"s Over" in 1960 with Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Jack Warden and Don Knotts and 1961"s fictional bio The George Raft Story (film) starring Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London and Frank Gorshin.
Moore also guest-starred on the American television dramas Perry Mason (television series) "The Case of the Capering Camera" in 1964 and Run for Your "The Rape of Lucrece" starring Ben Gazzara in 1968.
After her film career ended, Moore turned to business pursuits. She owned a San Francisco portrait photography studio in the 1970s and in the mid-1980s she returned to New York City to run The Chocolate Garden, a candy shop at 79th Street and Third Avenue.
She was a lifetime member of both the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.