Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore is an American actress. Mary Tyler Moore was born on 29th December 1936 in the Brooklyn Heights section of Brooklyn, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , US. Her mother’s name was Marjorie and her father, George Tyler Moore, was a clerk. They lived in Flushing, Queens. When Mary was eight years old, they moved to Los Angeles. She did her schooling from Saint Rose of Lima in Brooklyn, Saint Ambrose School in Los Angeles and Immaculate Heart High School in Los Feliz, California. In 1955, Mary married Richard Carleton Meeker. They have a child named Richard Jr. born on 3rd July 1956. The couple divorced in the year 1961. In 1962, she married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive, and they got separated in 1981. Mary married Robert Levine on 23rd November 1983. At the age of 17, Mary decided to become a dancer. She made her first appearance on television in TV commercials as ‘Happy Hotpoint’, a tiny pixie dancing on Hotpoint appliances during the 1950’s series ‘Ozzie and Harriet’. She appeared in 39 Hotpoint TV commercials. She also featured on covers of numerous albums.

Mary first appeared in the TV series Richard Diamond, Private Detective; only her voice was heard, and her legs appeared during the show to create the character’s mystique. She played the role of a glamorous and mysterious telephone receptionist. She made a guest appearance on the shows like ‘Johnny Staccato’, ‘Bachelor Father’ and in two episodes of ‘Overland Trail’. Further, she appeared in the TV shows and films like ‘Bourbon Street Beat’, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive’, ‘Hawaiian Eye’ and a few more. The year 1961 turned out to be a turning point in the career of Moore; Carl Reiner cast her in ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’. The show was based on career and life as a writer of Reiner. Danny Thomas’s company was the producer of the show. Mary played the role of wife, Laura Petrie, of Van Dyke’s character. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in the show. In the year 1970, Mary and her husband Grant Tinker initiated a sitcom ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’. The show portrayed the independent working life of a woman.

Apart from Mary, other names in the show were Valerie Harper Born on August 22, 1939, Valerie Harper is an Amer >> Read More... , Cloris Leachman Cloris Leachman is an American actress and a telev >> Read More... , Ed Asner Edward Asner is commonly known as “Ed Asner” is an >> Read More... , Gavin MacLeod and Ted Knight. The show was among the top 20 shows for first six years. The final show of the series became the seventh most watched show. The show went on to win 29 Emmy awards and remained the record till the year 2002; it won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Show in the years 1975, 1976 and 1977. The show became the first one to promote the Women’s Movement in a subtle way. Later, Mary appeared in few musical-varieties on CBS. Mary has featured in various Broadway plays. She has appeared in the plays like ‘Whose Life Is It Anyway’, ‘Sweet Sue’ and many more. She produced five plays of her production during 1980’s namely ‘Noises Off’, ‘Joe Egg’, ‘The Octette Bridge Club’, ‘Safe Sex’ and ‘Benefactors’. Mary made her debut in films by appearing in the movie ‘X-15’ in the year 1961. Further, she appeared in the films like ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ (1967), ‘What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?’, ‘ Don Click to look into! >> Read More... ’t Just Stand There’; these movies she did after signing a contract with the Universal Pictures. In the year 1980, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film ‘Ordinary People’. Mary has worked in numerous TV movies as ‘Like Mother’, ‘Like Son’, ‘Heartsounds’, ‘The Gin Game’ and a few more; in 1993, she won an Emmy Award for ‘Stolen Babies’.

In 1995, she wrote a memoir, ‘After All’, where she confessed that she is a recovering alcoholic. Further, in 2009, she wrote a memoir named ‘Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes’ about having type 1 diabetes. In 1969, Mary co-founded MTM Enterprises with her husband, Grant Tinker. The company produced ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ and also many other TV shows and films as ‘Rhoda’, ‘Phyllis’, ‘Lou Grant’ and many others.