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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Did GHW Bush die? I've been on the road all day and haven't heard any news.
Butch... Bush...
-PJ
And she was on That 70’s Show too!
I got to shake her hand once in the late 70’s- beautiful lady.
I saw it on a news site earlier. I then researched it and did not find anything. I think it was someone’s dream. That iPad is down in the battery red zone so can not do a history search. I am using my old one. I am kinda disgusted with that iPad. I have had trouble recharging the battery. No cable wants to work and I have about 10. I do not even like for it to get below 30%. You have any suggestions?
She was a nice lady and a funny actress. Used to like when she do her modern dance routine on the old “Dick Van Dyke Show’’.
By all accounts took a very conservative turn after leaving full time TV. Ed Asner was devastated. (Good, he’s a maroon.)
Never understood that.
Yeah, but could she speak jive?
Brutha doan wan no hep, brutha doan git no hep.
She was 18 when she played Laura Petrie
Probably 17 when she was the legs on the Diamond show.
She was a few months shy of 25 when she began playing Laura Petrie (and about 23 on the Diamond show).
You are right. She was a dancing appliance at age 18
Gotta start somewhere. ;-D
It’s curious that when she was 16, she tried out for the role of Danny Thomas’s eldest daughter, Terry, on “Make Room For Daddy.” He didn’t hire her because of her “petite” nose, saying she wouldn’t resemble a daughter of his (Marlo did look a bit like her, but she later got a nose job to resemble Mary !).
Me too. I never liked the Dick VanDyke show.....too much silliness, not enough comedy imho but I loved the MTM show. I loved her apartment and her clothes.....lol. It was a funny show but her performance in “Ordinary People” really showed what a versatile actress she was. RIP Mary.......
I grew up watching her on Nick At Nite on both the Mary Tyler Moore Show and the Dick Van Dyke show - back then the shows on Nick At Nite were actually appropriate for kids and we just kept on watching after our cartoons stopped for the day and we watched those old shows.
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