Posted on 01/25/2017 12:59:37 PM PST by Morgana
Mary Tyler Moore, whose witty and graceful performances on two top-rated television shows in the 1960s and ’70s helped define a new vision of American womanhood, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80.
Her family said her death, at Greenwich Hospital, was caused by cardiopulmonary arrest after she had contracted pneumonia.
Ms. Moore faced more than her share of private sorrow, and she went on to more serious fare, including an Oscar-nominated role in the 1980 film “Ordinary People” as a frosty, resentful mother whose son has died. But she was most indelibly known as the incomparably spunky Mary Richards on the CBS hit sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Broadcast from 1970 to 1977, it was produced by both Ms. Moore and her second husband, the CBS executive Grant Tinker, who died on Nov. 28.
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At least a decade before the twin figures of the harried working woman and the neurotic, unwed 30-something became media preoccupations, Ms. Moore’s portrayal — for which she won four of her seven Emmy Awards — expressed both the exuberance and the melancholy of the single career woman who could plot her own course without reference to cultural archetypes.
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Definitely a bummer. A lot of the people from the old shows are passing.
A feminist without being a shrill and abrasive feminazi.
Very few of them left any more.
I’m far too young to have grown up watching her. But I have seen the reruns on TV Land, I have seen the film Ordinary People recently & I’ve seen interviews & stories about her. I admired her much. So sorry to learn of her death :’(
Oh no. Mary is basically the princesses of Minneapolis. Damn!
I loved her work, from Dick Van Dyke to MTM Show to Ordinary People, she was great.
Best line on MTM “Mary, ya’ know what...you got SPUNK!” “Why, thank you, Mr. Grant,” “I HATE SPUNK!!”
Sad news.
Ed
When I lived in So Calif, one of my favorite places to go eat was Art’s Deli, on Ventura Blvd. I often saw her in there.
RIP Laura Petrie.
She and President Bush are two. Who will be the third?
A TV icon for sure. Now replaced by the likes of Madonna and Ashley Judd. You’ve come a long way, baby.
Sad.We all grew up watching her.
Folks used to say remember when couples on TV slept in separate beds,refering to her and “Rob”
Bush was BS
Long before she was Mary Richards she was Laura Petrie. And while feisty enough, Laura was anything but a feminist. She was as archetypal a housewife as June Cleaver, if not quite as smarmy.
May the angels sing her home.
Prayers for family
What?!!! How did I miss that?
imagine that....being a decent human being and playing one on the telly gets you loved, cherished and admired....
some of today's trash should try it some time...
I did some research and did not find anything on President Bush.
Any of us at about age 70+ lost our virtual girlfriend today. RIP beautiful lady.
RIP MTM!
She was the first woman to wear pants suit on TV. FWIW.
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