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Mary Tyler Moore was born on December 29, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, United States; the daughter of George, a utility company auditor, and Marjorie Moore. She was the oldest of three children.
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Mary Tyler Moore attended St. Rose of Lima Parochial School in Brooklyn until the third grade.
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In 1955 Mary Tyler Moore graduated from Immaculate Heart High School.
The cast poses on or behind a couch for a publicity portrait on the set of the CBS situation comedy 'Mary Tyler Moore,' Studio City, Los Angeles, California, November 21, 1975.
Mary Tyler Moore smiles broadly as she sits at a desk in a scene from 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', Los Angeles, California, 1970.
Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) sits at a desk in a scene from 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' (also known as 'Mary Tyler Moore'), Los Angeles, California, 1970.
Elvis Presley with Mary Tyler Moore in the film 'Change of Habit'.
American actress Mary Tyler Moore, circa 1970.
Mary Tyler Moore during National Leisure Inc. Benefit at Lion Country Safari in Laguana Hills, California, United States.
Mary Tyler Moore, presenter during 4th Annual TV Land Awards - Show at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, United States.
Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White, Edward Asner, Gavin MacLeod.
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Cloris Leachman (left), Mary Tyler Moore (centre), Valerie Harper pose, sitting on stools, wearing Seveties fashions, in a publicity portrait issued for the US television series, 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', USA, circa 1974.
Mary Tyler Moore attends NBC's taping of 'Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl' at Millennium Biltmore Hotel on January 8, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
Actress Mary Tyler Moore poses with her Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild backstage at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
Tyler Moore, lying on her side and smiling, wearing cuffed khaki shorts and a crepe de chine shirt by Calvin Klein.
Mary Tyler Moore leaves London Airport (Heathrow), London, 12th July 1969.
Mary Tyler Moore in rehearsal for The Dick Van Dyke Show on December 2, 1963 in Los Angeles, California.
Mary Tyler Moore in rehearsal for The Dick Van Dyke Show on December 2, 1963 in Los Angeles, California.
Mary Tyler Moore sitting on a yellow couch wearing a fur collared dress on the set of the Dick Van Dyke Show that ran from 1961-1966.
Young Mary Tyler Moore in a dance pose, circa 1965.
Still from The Mary Tyler Moore Show showing Moore standing, smiling, inside of the WJM newsroom. Moore is shown from the waist-up, holding a cup of coffee, circa 1975.
Mary Tyler Moore plays Mary Richards an October 1971 episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", alongside Cloris Leachman, who plays Richards' friend Phyllis Lindstrom.
Mary Tyler Moore poses with a Golden Globe in Los Angeles,CA.
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Studio portrait of American actor Mary Tyler Moore, wearing a red, white and blue striped shirt tied at the waist and smiling with her arms over her head.
Mary Tyler Moore holding a telephone up to her ear and smiling at Kennedy International Airport, New York City,. She wears a suit-dress with a matching coat and a head-wrap; a TWA flight bag rests on the floor next to her.
Mary Tyler Moore puts her arm around her son, Richard Meeker Jr.
Actress Mary Tyler Moore and husband, Dr. robert Levine.
Dr. Robert Levine and wife, actress Mary Tyler Moore.
American actress Mary Tyler Moore mouths surprise on the telephone while simultaneously typing as others work in the background in a scene from 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Los Angeles, California, early 1970s.
Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) sleeps on a desk in a scene from the 'Mary's Insomnia' episode of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' (also known as 'Mary Tyler Moore'), Los Angeles, California, September 17, 1976.
American actress Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) sits at her desk as Betty White (as Sue Ann Nivens) talks to her and Gavin MacLeod (as Murray Slaughter) listens in a scene from 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' (also known as 'Mary Tyler Moore'), Los Angeles, California, mid-1970s.
Mary Tyler Moore poses with her husband Dr. Robert Levine on their wedding day, November 23, 1983.
American actress and commedienne Mary Tyler Moore and her husband Dr. Robert Levine walk together holding hands as they arrive at an unidentifed formal event, 1990.
Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) (left) gives a 'thumbs up' sign as she sits at her desk with Betty White (as Sue Ann Nivens) in a scene from 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' (also known as 'Mary Tyler Moore'), Los Angeles, California, 1975.
Actress Mary Tyler Moore poses backstage at the 2006 TV Land Awards at the Barker Hangar on March 19, 2006 in Santa Monica, California.
Actress Mary Tyler Moore poses backstage at the 2006 TV Land Awards at the Barker Hangar on March 19, 2006 in Santa Monica, California.
Mary Tyler Moore, as Mary Richards, poses for a publicity portrait for the CBS situation comedy 'Mary Tyler Moore,' Studio City, Los Angeles, California, 1976.
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The actress recounts her life and career up to the present, from her tough Brooklyn-to-Hollywood childhood, to her long marriage to Grant Tinker and their painful divorce, the loss of her son, and her struggles with alcoholism.
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1995
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Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years. With inspired, well-crafted prose, she drills down to the most heartfelt, yet universal truths about life—including the lives of those with diabetes. She unflinchingly chronicles her struggle with diabetes, as well as her successful rehabilitation from alcohol dependence, all while deriving gratification from her roles as an actress, mother, businesswoman, campaigner, and fund-raise.
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2009
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In its third season, this groundbreaking comedy explored topics previously taboo on network television.
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1973
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Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration includes heartfelt interviews that recall the importance of her television characters in shaping today's society.
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2015
Mary Tyler Moore was born on December 29, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, United States; the daughter of George, a utility company auditor, and Marjorie Moore. She was the oldest of three children.
Mary Tyler Moore attended St. Rose of Lima Parochial School in Brooklyn until the third grade and Saint Ambrose School in Los Angeles. In 1955 she graduated from Immaculate Heart High School.
Since she had always enjoyed singing and dancing for her family, Moore began to direct her energy toward performing. She started training as a dancer, and she was excited when it turned out that she had found something at which she excelled.
When she was eighteen, Moore landed her first professional acting job. She played Happy Hotpoint, a tiny elf who danced on appliances, in a series of television commercials. That job came to an end in 1955 when Moore gave birth to her son.
Moore's dance training helped her land roles in the chorus on two different television variety shows, The Eddie Fisher Show and The George Gobel Show. Although she loved dancing, Moore was determined to become an actress. She got her first break in 1957 playing Sam, the sultry secretary on the TV detective series Richard Diamond. An unsuccessful audition for the popular Danny Thomas series Make Room for Daddy led to a tryout for a new show in 1961. Moore won the part of Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was produced by Danny Thomas and Carl Reiner.
The Dick Van Dyke Show appeared on CBS for five years beginning in 1961. Actor Dick Van Dyke starred as Rob Petrie, a successful television writer, and Moore played his wife. Although Laura Petrie stays home to take care of the couple's young son, Ritchie, she does not always fit into the traditional housewife role. In fact, Moore's character generated controversy by wearing cropped pants and flat shoes at a time when other TV wives wore dresses and high heels. She also participated in household decisions more than many female television characters. When The Dick Van Dyke Show went off the air in 1966, Moore acted in Broadway plays and motion pictures.
In 1969, Moore reunited with the cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show for a musical-variety special called Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman. The show was such a hit that CBS offered Moore a chance to develop her own half-hour sitcom. Along with her husband, Grant Tinker, Moore established an independent television production company called MTM Productions. The couple hired talented producers and writers, such as Jim Brooks and Allan Burns, and the creative team worked together to develop the concept for The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Moore played the role of Mary Richards, a young woman who gets dumped by her boyfriend, moves to Minneapolis, and finds a job as a television news producer in a newsroom filled with eccentric characters.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show first appeared on CBS in 1970 and was a big hit with both critics and viewers.
Moore's character, Mary Richards, introduced a new type of female role on TV as a happy, successful, independent, single working woman. She struck a chord at a time when many American women were staying single longer and building successful careers. Mary Richards became a role model in the growing women's liberation or feminist movement of the 1970s, which worked to secure equal rights and opportunities for women in the United States.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show ran for seven years, airing its last episode in 1977. In the meantime, Moore's company, MTM Productions, also experienced tremendous success in developing other television shows. MTM created two spin-off series revolving around popular characters from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, and Phyllis. In later years, the company also developed such television hits as The Bob Newhart Show, Hill Street Blues, WKRP in Cincinnati, The White Shadow, and St. Elsewhere.
Moore took a long break after her namesake series went off the air. When she returned to television, she decided that a variety show would be the best follow-up to her successful sitcom. Her producers assembled a cast of talented co-stars who would eventually become stars in their own right, including Michael Keaton, David Letterman, and Swoosie Kurtz. But with the variety show format losing popularity among viewers, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour lasted only eight episodes.
In 1978, Moore drew critical attention for her performance in a serious role for a television movie, First You Cry, about a woman suffering from breast cancer. In 1980, she received more praise for her performance in the play Whose Life Is It Anyway on Broadway. In 1981, she landed one of the biggest roles of her career in the film Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford. Moore played Beth Jarrett, the rigid, demanding mother of a sensitive son who is full with guilt over his brother's death.
In 1984, Moore returned to work, and she appeared in a number of theatrical films and TV movies throughout the remainder of the decade. She also made a workout video, played Mary Todd Lincoln in the TV miniseries Gore Vidal's Lincoln, and played the title role in a short-lived comedy series Mary, set in a Chicago newsroom. One of the high points of her professional career came in 1985 when she was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
Moore continued to work steadily during the 1990s and 2000s, appearing in television shows, made-for-TV movies, and theatrical films. In 1995, for instance, she starred in another short-lived television series, New York News. The following year she earned critical praise for her sassy role in Flirting with Disaster, a motion picture starring Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, and George Segal. In 2001, she once again garnered critical praise for her portrayal of con artist Sante Kimes in the television movie Like Mother, Like Son. Moore also appeared in several reunion projects with her friends from her popular 1970s series, including Mary and Rhoda (2000) and The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (2004). In the fall of 2013, Moore reprised her role on Hot in Cleveland in a season four episode which not only reunited Moore and White but also former MTM cast members Cloris Leachman, Valerie Harper and Georgia Engel as well.
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1973Mary Tyler Moore was raised in the Catholic faith
In 1980 campaign television ad Mary Tyler Moore endorsed President Jimmy Carter for re-election. In a Parade magazine article from March 22, 2009, Moore identified herself as a libertarian centrist who watched Fox News.
In an interview for the 2013 PBS series Pioneers of Television, Moore said that she was recruited to join the feminist movement of the 1970s by Gloria Steinem but did not agree with Steinem's views. Moore said she believed that women have an important role in raising children and that she did not believe in Steinem's view that women owe it to themselves to have a career.
Quotations: "Take chances. Make mistakes. That's how you grow. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
Mary Tyler Moore was a member of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
After suffering a miscarriage, she was shocked to learn that she had diabetes, a disease in which the body loses the ability to process the sugar in food. Left untreated, diabetes can cause kidney failure, heart disease, circulation problems, or stroke. After her diagnosis, Moore monitored her diet carefully and injected herself with insulin in order to regulate the level of sugar in her blood.
When Moore was seventeen, she met Dick Meeker, a 27-year-old salesman living next door to her family. They were married the following year. In 1955 Moore gave birth to her son, Richard. She divorced Dick Meeker in 1962. A year later she married Grant Tinker, who at that time was an account executive at an advertising agency. In 1980, her son Richard accidentally shot himself to death. A year later, Moore and Grant Tinker were divorced.
Following the end of her marriage, Moore settled in New York City. In 1983, she married Dr. Robert Levine, a cardiologist who was seventeen years younger than she.