Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was a famous American actress. She is best remembered as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977). She has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and Ordinary People (1980), in which she played characters vastly different from those she had played on television.
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Her dad worked in the office. Her Catholic, Irish-American ancestors settled in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Eventually, the Moores settled into a rented apartment at 144-16 35th Avenue in the New York City borough of Queens.
Moore had a younger brother named John and a younger sister named Elizabeth. The home in Winchester, Virginia, today known as the Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Museum, belonged to Moore’s paternal great-grandfather, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore.
Moore’s uncle, who worked for MCA, suggested that the family moved there when Moore was eight years old so that she could pursue acting. She was nurtured in the Catholic faith and went to St. Rose of Lima Parochial School in Brooklyn until the third grade. Moore went to schools in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, including Saint Ambrose School and Immaculate Heart High School.
Mary Tyler Moore’s Health issues and Death
Moore was given a type 1 diabetes diagnosis back in 1969. Her meningioma, a benign brain tumor, was surgically removed in 2011. In 2014, Moore’s acquaintances said he suffered from heart and kidney disease and was practically blind from diabetes-related issues.
Moore passed away on January 25, 2017, at 80, at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, after cardiopulmonary arrest worsened by pneumonia. He had been placed on a ventilator the week prior. She was given a private burial in Fairfield, Connecticut’s Oak Lawn Cemetery
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Mary Tyler Moore Career
Soon to be a household name, Moore made her cinematic debut as a nurse in the Jack Lemmon comedy Operation Mad Ball (1957). In X-15, she had her first speaking role (1961).
After her success on The Dick Van Dyke Show, she went on to star in several films in the late 1960s (after signing an exclusive contract with Universal Pictures), including Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) as an aspiring actress in 1920s New York who is taken under the wing of Julie Andrews’ title character, and two films released the following year, What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? with George Peppard and Don’t Just Stand There! with Robert Wagner.
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In the Elvis Presley film Change of Habit, she played a nun alongside the King (1969). Ed Asner, who Moore would later work with on television, made a cameo appearance in the film as a police officer.
Mary Tyler Moore Personal life
Moore, who was only 18 when she married Richard Meeker, a salesman, at 28 in 1955, became pregnant with their only child, Richard Carleton Meeker Jr., within six weeks of their wedding. It was in 1962 that Meeker and Moore called it quits on their marriage.
After marrying Grant Tinker, a CBS executive and eventually NBC chairman, Moore, and Tinker launched the television production business MTM Enterprises later that year. They produced their first show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in 1969. The separation between Moore and Tinker was revealed in 1979, and the couple separated the following year. Moore dated Steve Martin and Warren Beatty back in the ’80s.
Final words: Moore passed away on January 25, 2017, at 80, at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, from a cardiopulmonary arrest exacerbated by pneumonia following a week on a ventilator.
