Guild honors Mary Tyler Moore (Screen Actors Guild)

Buffalo News ^ | 1/29/2012 | John Crook

[DemforBush]

She started her TV career as a teenager playing Happy Hotpoint the Elf during appliance commercials on “The Adventures of Ozzie&Harriet” before being “promoted” to playing David Janssen’s sultry receptionist using only her shapely legs and voice in “Richard Diamond, Private Detective"...

[DemforBush]

I always enjoyed MTM in comedic roles, but I think I first truly appreciated her skill as an actress after Ordinary People.

BTW, Mary is supposedly a big fan of Sarah Palin, so there's that to admire, too. :-)

[al baby]

I highly doubt MTM is a fan of Sarah Palin!!!

[ContraryMary]

I just finished watching all the seasons of The Dick Van Dyke Show on DVD, and now I’m watching the Mary Tyler Moore Show. She and Van Dyke just can’t be beat.

[al baby]

[PrinterEagle]

Ted Baxter “I want every woman in the free world to wear a dress like that”

[al baby]

Mary Richards or Emily Hartley?

[TigersEye]

I highly doubt MTM is a fan of Sarah Palin!!!

Apparently she is.

Lou Grant Disses Mary Richards! (Ed Asner down on Mary Tyler Moore for liking Sarah Palin)

[APatientMan]

I’m related to her through marriage. Never met her (and never will) but relatives who have say she is a very nice person. FWIW.

[libertarian27]

How cool is that!

[DemforBush]

I love the DvD show too! Van Dyke and Moore play so well off of each other. I always had a soft spot for Richard Deacon in his bit part (owing to my love of Leave it to Beaver, where he played Lumpy’s dad), too.

[Revolting cat!]

Not many people know that she was a nun before her acting career!

[Revolting cat!]

But it was some hick from Mississippi who rescued her.

[TigersEye]

Very cool! And she did have shapely legs...

[DemforBush]

Yowza!

[TigersEye]

One more for the crowd! ;^)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yeow! “Who likes short shorts?”

[Revolting cat!]

GUILTY!

[6SJ7]

That was a funny show.

[Bobalu]

Here are the MTM elf commercials..
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Happy+Hotpoint+the+Elf&oq=Happy+Hotpoint+the+Elf&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=0l0l0l1123l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0

[Ronald_Magnus]

I remember Dick Van Dyke said in a interview that the censors were so strict, that Moore was asked to wear a “capri pad” when dressed in those tight slacks. I was left to imagine what that was about.