Mary Tyler Moore
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Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore was born on December 29, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up mostly in southern California and during high school performed on stage and in commercials. Her first real television performance was her being a dancer as "Happy Hotpoint" which was a singing and dancing home appliance. That's when people started liking her. The first series she was in was Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Mary played a receptionist named "Sam" and the only thing featured on the show was her legs and her voice. She was in this show for three months before she got tired of it and moved on. She then met Richard Meeke and they got married in 1955. They had one son named Richard.
In the early 1960's, Mary got the role of Laura on The Dick Van Dyke Show. She was playing a lovely and competent housewife who was frequently thrown off course by her husband's unusual friends and career. Thanks to all the performances she did in high school, she was able to show off her singing and dancing skills on stage. Also she was a great comic actress on the show. She divorced her husband in 1962 and remarried to a man named Grant Tinker in 1963. The Dick Van Dyke Show stopped recording in 1966 to give Mary a break. She won two Emmy Awards for her leading role. Then showing how popular Mary Tyler Moore was on The Dick Van Dyke Show, CBS offered her a 13-episode contract so she can make her own series starting from 1970.
Mary and her husband Grant took that as an opportunity to set up their own production company called MTM Enterprises to produce this show. They came up with The Mary Tyler Moore Show where Mary played Mary Richards. This show aired for the first time on September 19, 1970. Mary was a 30 year old single woman that was on her own in the 1970s in Minneapolis. This show portrayed Mary as a realistic woman and helped show how women in the 1970s had different lives. They no longer only worried about the family but about work too. Also that the men were not...
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