“I would like to be remembered as somebody who made a difference in the lives of animals.”
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Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore was an American actress, producer, and social advocate. She is best known for her television roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), which "helped define a new vision of American womanhood" and "appealed to an audience facing the new trials of modern-day existence". She won seven Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and t…
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Born 29 December 1936 · Died 25 January 2017 · Q41342
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 7,297 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 2,371, with 0 article edits.
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2021· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Actress Mary Tyler Moore died for the second time in March 2021.” False.
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2017· 7 entries
At Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, aged 80, from cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by pneumonia after having been placed on a ventilator the week before
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Died 2017-01-25.
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“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
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“It may take a while, but there will probably come a time when we look back and say, "Good Lord, do you believe that in the twentieth century and early part of the twenty-first, people were still eating animals?”
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“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
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“It may take a while," says actress and vegetarian Mary Tyler Moore, "but there will probably come a time when we look back and say, 'Good Lord, do you believe that in the 20th century and early part of the 21st, people were still eating animals?”
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“I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.”
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2014· 1 entry
Friends reported that Moore had heart and kidney problems, and was nearly blind from complications related to diabetes
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (2012).
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Moore and Bernadette Peters were honored by the Ride of Fame and a double-decker bus was dedicated to them and their charity work on behalf of "Broadway Barks", which the duo co-founded
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2011· 2 entries
Had surgery to remove a meningioma, a benign brain tumor
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Her friend and former co-star Ed Asner said during an interview on The O'Reilly Factor that Moore "has become much more conservative of late"; Bill O'Reilly, host of that program, stated that Moore had been a viewer of
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2007· 1 entry
In honor of Moore's dedication to the Foundation, JDRF created the "Forever Moore" research initiative which will support JDRF's Academic Research and Development and JDRF's Clinical Development Program
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2004· 1 entry
With her Dick Van Dyke Show castmates for a reunion special, The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited
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2002· 1 entry
Moore was present when cable network TV Land and the City of Minneapolis dedicated a statue in downtown Minneapolis of Mary Richards, her character in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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1996· 2 entries
Moore appeared as herself in 1996 on an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres sitcom Ellen.
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On an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres sitcom Ellen
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1995· 3 entries
Moore donated funds to acquire a historic structure in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, for Shepherd College (now Shepherd University) to be used as a center for Civil War studies
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After another lengthy break from TV series work
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Acknowledged being a recovering alcoholic, while in Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes (2009), she focused on living with type 1 diabetes
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Stolen Babies (1993).
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Won an Emmy for her portrayal of Georgia Tann in the Lifetime made-for-TV film Stolen Babies
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1992· 1 entry
With a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1987· 1 entry
Received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy from the American Comedy Awards
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1986· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1984).
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After admitting herself into the Betty Ford Center
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And Benefactors in 1986, and won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play or Musical in 1985 for Joe Egg
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1982· 1 entry
When he treated Moore's mother in New York on a weekend house call; Moore and her mother had just returned from a visit to Vatican City, where they'd had a personal audience with Pope John Paul II
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1981).
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Won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama for that role
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1980· 5 entries
Richard died of an accidental gunshot to the head while handling a small,
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Awarded Special Tony Award (1980).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Ordinary People (1980).
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And ran for 96 performances, and in Sweet Sue, which opened at the Music Box Theatre on January 8, 1987, later transferred to the Royale Theatre, and ran for 164 performances
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And was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as well
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1978· 1 entry
Where she received significant support from a strong lineup of guest stars: Bill Bixby, John Ritter, Harvey Korman and Dick Van Dyke
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1976).
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While season six of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was in progress
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1974).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Actress of the Year for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1974).
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973).
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But announced a permanent separation in 1979 and divorced two years later
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1970· 1 entry
After performing in the one-hour musical special Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman
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1969· 3 entries
At age 33, shortly after having suffered a miscarriage
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Formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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Which produced The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other successful television shows and films
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966).
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1965· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Awards (1965).
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1964· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe for an Actress in a Television Series for The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964).
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Awarded Emmy Award (1964).
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1961· 2 entries
Carl Reiner cast Moore in The Dick Van Dyke Show, a weekly series based on Reiner's own life and career as a writer for Sid Caesar's television variety show Your Show of Shows, telling the cast from the outset that it wo
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Moore appeared in several big parts in movies and on television, including Bourbon Street Beat; 77 Sunset Strip; Surfside 6; Wanted: Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen; Steve Canyon; Hawaiian Eye; Thriller and Lock-Up
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1955· 3 entries
Moore married her next-door neighbor, 28-year-old cranberry juice salesman Richard Meeker
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“My problems with my parents were basically communications problems ... I believe they did the best they could at the time in raising me. I didn’t see it, and I wanted to live elsewhere. Sure, I think I was being a rotten kid, but there were parts of what they did in raising me that were a little rotten, too.”
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With a job as "Happy Hotpoint", a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint home appliances in TV commercials that ran during breaks on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
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1945· 1 entry
When she was 8 years old, at the recommendation of her uncle, an employee of MCA
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-12-29.
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