Mary Tyler Moore

Moore was born in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1936 to Marjorie (née Hackett) and George Tyler Moore. Her father was a clerk.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/us/mary-tyler-moore-fast-facts/ |title=Mary Tyler Moore Fast Facts |work=CNN.com |access-date=May 21, 2015 |date=December 20, 2014}}{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/marytylermoore00finn |url-access=registration |title=Mary Tyler Moore |first=Margaret L. |last=Finn |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |year=1996 |isbn=9780791024164}}{{Cite news| last= Heffernan|first=Virginia|date=January 25, 2017|title=Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80|language=en-US|work=The New York Times| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html|access-date=September 1, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190517081057/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html|archive-date=May 17, 2019|issn=0362-4331 |url-access=limited}} Her Irish-Catholic family lived in a rental apartment in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, then the family later lived in a rented apartment at 144-16 35th Avenue in Flushing, Queens.

Moore was the oldest of three children, with a younger brother John and a younger sister Elizabeth. Moore's paternal great-grandfather, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, owned the house that is now the Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum in Winchester, Virginia.{{cite web |url=http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/marym/index.html |title=Ancestry of Mary Tyler Moore | website= Genealogy.com |date=September 27, 2001 |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080611165122/http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/marym/index.html |archive-date=June 11, 2008}}

When Moore was eight years old, the family relocated to Los Angeles, California in 1945, at the recommendation of her uncle, an employee of MCA.{{cite web |url= http://emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/mary-tyler-moore# |title=Mary Tyler Moore |website= emmytvlegends.org| publisher= Archive of American Television |language=en |access-date=February 3, 2017}} She was raised Catholic{{cite news |url= https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/71943104/ |title=Mary Tyler Moore opens up about grief, alcohol and vision |first=Kew |last=Kills |newspaper=The Index-Journal |location= Greenwood, South Carolina| via= newspapers.com |date=September 17, 2008 |page=27 |access-date=May 21, 2015}} and attended St. Rose of Lima Parochial School in Brooklyn until the third grade. In Los Angeles, Moore attended Saint Ambrose School and Immaculate Heart High School in the Los Feliz neighborhood.{{cite web |url= http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=23&id=25411 |title=Shapely Legs An Asset | website= brooklyneagle.com |date=December 29, 2008 |access-date=August 14, 2010 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150904004156/http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=23&id=25411 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url= http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=134771 |title=Biography, move to California and High School |website= Turner Classic Movies |access-date=August 14, 2010}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

Moore's sister Elizabeth died at age 21 "from a combination of{{nbsp}}... painkillers and alcohol." Her brother died at the age of 47 from kidney cancer.{{cite news| first= Frazier |last= Moore| url= http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/actress-mary-tyler-moore-dies-at-80-1.3256784 |title= Actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80| agency= Associated Press | website= CTVNews.ca| date= January 25, 2017| access-date= }}

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Moore's television career began in 1955 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. After appearing in 39 Hotpoint commercials in five days, she received approximately $6,000 ({{Inflation|US-GDP|6000|1952|r=-3|fmt=eq}}).{{cite book |title=The TV Guide TV Book: 40 Years of the All-Time Greatest Television Facts, Fads, Hits, and History |url=https://archive.org/details/tvguidetvbook40y00wein |url-access=registration |last=Weiner |first=Ed |year=1992 |publisher=Harper Collins |location=New York |isbn=0060969148 |page=[https://archive.org/details/tvguidetvbook40y00wein/page/100 100]}}{{cite web |last=Webster |first=Ian |title=$6,000 in 1950 is worth $73,891.37 today |url=https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1950?amount=6000 |website=in2013dollars.com |publisher=Official Data Foundation / Alioth LLC |access-date=January 29, 2023}} She became pregnant while still working as "Happy", and Hotpoint ended her work when it became too difficult to conceal her pregnancy with the elf costume.{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=61–65}}

Moore was an uncredited{{cite web |last1=Evanier |first1=Mark |author1-link=Mark Evanier |title=Mary on Record |url=https://www.newsfromme.com/2003/01/15/fbhwhb/ |website=News From ME |access-date=July 25, 2024}} photographic model for record album covers,{{cite web |title=Mary Tyler Moore |url=https://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/M/MTM/MTM_pages.html |website=Album Cover Art Gallery |publisher=tralfaz-archives.com |access-date=July 25, 2024}}{{cite web |title=Lot Detail - Mary Tyler Moore Signed "Million Sellers" Album With Additional Cover Albums JSA |url=https://www.gottahaverockandroll.com/mary_tyler_moore_signed__million_sellers__album_wi-lot38091.aspx |website=gottahaverockandroll.com}} many for the Tops Records label,{{cite news |title=Mary Tyler Moore: TV pioneer, feminist icon and — album cover girl? |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-st-moore-album-covers-20170126-story.html |access-date=July 25, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 26, 2017}} and auditioned for the role of the elder daughter of Danny Thomas for his long-running TV show, but was turned down.{{cite web |title=The Mural of Album Cover Art: Narrative Guide |url=http://www.vinylrecordday.com/pdf/mural_narrativeguide.pdf |publisher=Vinyl Record Day |access-date=January 26, 2017 |page=4 |archive-date=October 16, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016005942/http://www.vinylrecordday.com/pdf/mural_narrativeguide.pdf |url-status=dead }} Much later, Thomas explained that "she missed it by a nose{{nbsp}}... no daughter of mine could ever have a nose that small".{{cite book |last=Van Dyke |first=Dick |title=My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir |date=2011 |publisher=Crown Archetype |isbn=9780307592262 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRvfn1BCoHwC&q=no+daughter+of+mine+could+have+that+nose+Mary+Moore&pg=PT79 |access-date=January 26, 2017}}

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Moore's first regular television role was as 'Sam' a mysterious and glamorous telephone switchboard operator/receptionist in the series Richard Diamond, Private Detective with David Janssen. Sam's sultry voice was heard talking to Richard Diamond from her switchboard; however, only her legs and occasionally her hands appeared on camera -- never her face, adding to the character's mystique.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tvguide.com/news/tyler-moore-dick-36447.aspx|title=Mary Tyler Moore's Big Break |magazine=TV Guide|date=May 6, 2004 |access-date=August 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112042757/https://www.tvguide.com/news/tyler-moore-dick-36447.aspx/ |archive-date=November 12, 2013 }} After creating a minor sensation by appearing as Sam in 12 episodes of Richard Diamond as an uncredited player, Moore asked for a raise -- and was promptly fired by the show's producers and replaced by Roxane Brooks in the role. However, Moore was able to parlay the publicity from 'revealing' Sam's identity to the press into several flattering articles and profiles, giving her career a boost.

About this time, she guest-starred in John Cassavetes' NBC detective series Johnny Staccato, and also in the series premiere of The Tab Hunter Show in September 1960 and the Bachelor Father episode "Bentley and the Big Board" in December 1960. In 1961, 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. She also appeared in a February 1962 episode of Straightaway.

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In 1961, 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 would run for no more than five years. The show was produced by Danny Thomas' company, and Thomas himself recommended her. He remembered Moore as "the girl with three names" whom he had turned down earlier.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070301201915/http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=43 Profile] the Paley Center for Media. Retrieved April 3, 2009.

Moore's energetic comic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 24 (eleven years Van Dyke's junior), made both the actress and her signature fitted capri pants popular, and she became internationally known. When she won her first Emmy Award for her portrayal of Laura Petrie,{{harvnb|Moore|1995|p=114}} she said, "I know this will never happen again."{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/mary-tyler-moore-star-mary-tyler-moore-show/story?id=44534207 |title=Mary Tyler Moore, Star of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show,' Dies at 80 |last=Fisher |first=Lucina |date=January 25, 2017 |website=ABC News |access-date=January 26, 2017}} As Laura Petrie, Moore often wore styles that recalled the fashion of Jackie Kennedy, such as capri pants, echoing an ideal of the Kennedy administration's Camelot.{{cite book|title=The Sixties Chronicles|first=David|last=Farber|page=153|publisher=Publications International Ltd.|isbn=141271009X|date=2004}}

In 1970, after performing in the one-hour musical special Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman, Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom that centered on Moore to CBS. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant. The Mary Tyler Moore Show bridged aspects of the Women's Movement with mainstream culture by portraying an amiable, independent woman whose life focused on her professional career rather than marriage and family.{{cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |title=Mary Tyler Moore, beloved TV icon who symbolized the independent career woman, dies at 80 |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mary-tyler-moore-20170125-story.html |access-date=January 26, 2017 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 25, 2017}}

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The show marked the first big hit for film and television producer James L. Brooks, who would also do more work for Moore and Tinker's production company.{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-l-brooks-how-long-hell-stick-simpsons-seeing-spielberg-at-supermarket-968283|title=James L. Brooks on How Long He'll Stick With 'The Simpsons' and Seeing Spielberg at the Supermarket|first=Stephen|last=Galloway|publisher=Hollywood Reporter|date=January 27, 2017|access-date=December 30, 2020}} Moore's show proved so popular that three regular characters, Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern, Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom, and Ed Asner as Lou Grant spun off into their own three separate series playing the same characters, albeit with Lou Grant being an hour-long drama instead of a half-hour sitcom.

The premise of the single working woman's life, alternating during the program between work and home, became a television staple.{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/mary-tyler-moore-9413674|title=Mary Tyler Moore Biography |publisher=Biography.com |access-date=February 9, 2017}} After six years of ratings in the top 20,[http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/marytylermo/marytylermo.htm "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630144414/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/marytylermo/marytylermo.htm |date=June 30, 2007 }} museum.tv. Retrieved April 3, 2009. the show slipped to number 39 in season seven.

Producers asked that the series be canceled because of falling ratings, afraid that the show's legacy might be damaged if it were renewed for another season.{{cite book|last1=Littleton|first1=Darryl|last2=Littleton|first2=Tuezdae|title=Comediennes: Laugh Be a Lady|date=2012|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9781480329744|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iz_S7n9bWW8C&q=The+Mary+Tyler+Moore+Show+%22season+seven%22&pg=PT77|access-date=January 26, 2017}} Despite the decline in ratings, the 1977 season won its third straight Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/mary-tyler-moore|title=Mary Tyler Moore|website=Television Academy}} In seven seasons, the program won 29 Emmys and Moore won three awards for Best Lead Actress in a sitcom.{{cite web| url=http://www.theintelligencer.com/news/amp/Frasier-Breaks-Emmy-Record-10490481.php |title='Frasier' Breaks Emmy Record |website=theintelligencer.com |date=September 15, 2002 |language=en |access-date=January 26, 2017}} The record was unbroken until 2002, when the NBC sitcom Frasier won its 30th Emmy.

On January 22, 1976, while season six of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was in progress, Moore appeared in Mary's Incredible Dream, an experimental musical/variety special for CBS,{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=190–192}} and which also featured Ben Vereen. She described it as "a totally different concept from anything ever attempted on television... We go from song to dance to song and back again, telling a story of the eternal cycle of man. If viewers don't want to follow the story, they can just enjoy the music and dancing."A first: 'Mary's Incredible Dream'", by Vernon Scott, UPI report, Lowell (MA) Sun, January 5, 1976, p.24 In 1978, she starred in a second CBS special, How to Survive the '70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness, where she received significant support from a strong lineup of guest stars: Bill Bixby, John Ritter, Harvey Korman and Dick Van Dyke. In the 1978–79 season, Moore also starred in two unsuccessful CBS variety series. The first, Mary, featured David Letterman, Michael Keaton, Swoosie Kurtz and Dick Shawn in the supporting cast. After CBS canceled that series, it brought Moore back in March 1979 in a new, retooled show, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. Described as a "sit-var" (part situation comedy/part variety series), it had Moore portraying a TV star putting on a variety show. The program lasted just 11 episodes.{{cite news |last=Heffernan |first=Virginia |title=Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html|access-date=January 26, 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=January 26, 2017 |url-access=limited}}

In the 1985–86 season, Moore returned to CBS in a sitcom titled Mary, which suffered from poor reviews, sagging ratings, and strife within the production crew. Moore said she asked network to pull the show because she was unhappy with the direction and production.{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=266–267}} Moore also starred in the short-lived Annie McGuire in 1988.{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=271–272}} In 1995, after another lengthy break from TV series work, Moore was cast as tough, unsympathetic newspaper owner Louise "the Dragon" Felcott on the CBS drama New York News, the third series in which her character was involved in the news media.{{cite news |last=Gay |first=Verne |date=October 22, 1995 |title=Mary Tyler Moore Roars Back to Series TV |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1995-10-22-9510130280-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702064552/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1995-10-22-9510130280-story.html |archive-date=July 2, 2021 |publisher=Newsday |via=Sun-Sentinel}} Moore was disappointed with the writing of her character and was negotiating with producers to get out of her contract for the series when it was canceled.{{cite news |last=Grady |first=Constance |title=Watch Mary Tyler Moore play against type in this forgotten 1995 drama |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/1/25/14389972/mary-tyler-moore-new-york-news-madeline-kahn-fabio-1995-cbs |access-date=January 26, 2017 |work=Vox |date=January 25, 2017}}

In the mid-1990s, Moore appeared as herself on two episodes of Ellen. She guest-starred on Ellen DeGeneres's The Ellen Show, in 2001. In 2004, Moore reunited with her Dick Van Dyke Show castmates for a reunion special, The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited.{{cite magazine |last=Tucker |first=Ken |date=May 14, 2004 |title=Review:The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2004/05/14/dick-van-dyke-show-revisited |access-date=August 14, 2010 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}

In 2006, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, the high-strung host of a fictional TV show, in three episodes of the Fox sitcom That '70s Show.{{cite news |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-01-23-mtm-70s-show_x.htm |title=Love is all around for Moore on '70s' |last=Keveney |first=Bill |date=January 23, 2006 |work=USA Today |access-date=January 26, 2017}} Moore's scenes were shot on the same sound stage where The Mary Tyler Moore Show was filmed in the 1970s. She made a guest appearance on the season two premiere of Hot in Cleveland, which starred her former co-star Betty White.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tvguide.com/News/Mary-Tyler-Moore-1024989.aspx |title=Mary Tyler Moore to Guest-Star on Hot in Cleveland Season Premiere |magazine=TV Guide |access-date=November 2, 2010}} It marked the first time that White and Moore had worked together since The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended in 1977.[http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2010/11/mary_tyler_moore_to_guest_star.html "Mary Tyler Moore to guest star on 'Hot in Cleveland'"], November 1, 2010. In the fall of 2013, Moore reprised her role on Hot in Cleveland in a season four episode that reunited Moore and White with former Mary Tyler Moore Show cast members Cloris Leachman, Valerie Harper and Georgia Engel. The reunion coincided with Harper's public announcement that she had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and was given only a few months to live.{{cite news |title=Valerie Harper, Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White & More Reunite On 'Hot In Cleveland' (Photos) |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01/valerie-harper-mary-tyler-moore-betty-white-hot-in-cleveland_n_3852277.html |access-date=January 26, 2017 |work=Huffington Post|date=September 1, 2017}}

Moore appeared in several Broadway plays. She was the star of a new musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's in December 1966, but the show, titled Holly Golightly, was a flop that closed in previews before opening on Broadway. In reviews of performances in Philadelphia and Boston, critics "murdered" the play in which Moore claimed to be singing with bronchial pneumonia.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UGAaAAAAIBAJ&pg=5182,1978228&dq=holly-golightly+mary-tyler-moore&hl=en |title=Boston and Philadelphia Critics Broke Mary Tyler Moore's Heart |website=News.google.com|date=December 4, 1966 |access-date=August 14, 2010}}

She starred in Whose Life Is It Anyway? with James Naughton, which opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on February 24, 1980, 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.

During the 1980s, Moore and her production company produced five plays: Noises Off, The Octette Bridge Club, Joe Egg, Benefactors, and Safe Sex.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/mary-tyler-moore-23123|title=Mary Tyler Moore – Broadway Cast & Staff|website=IBDb.com|access-date=January 23, 2025}}

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Moore appeared in previews of the Neil Simon play Rose's Dilemma at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2003 but quit the production after receiving a critical letter from Simon instructing her to "learn your lines or get out of my play".{{cite web|last=Gerard|first=Jeremy|url=http://nymag.com/nymag/columns/culturebusiness/n_9651|title=Comedy of Manners|publisher=Nymag.com|date=December 22, 2003|access-date=August 14, 2010}} Moore had been using an earpiece on stage to feed her lines to the repeatedly rewritten play.{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/83370-Dust-Settled-Neil-Simons-Roses-Dilemma-Opens-Dec-18-Off-Broadway|title=Dust Settled, Neil Simon's Rose's Dilemma Opens Dec. 18 Off-Broadway|website=Playbill.com|access-date=August 14, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015230040/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/83370-Dust-Settled-Neil-Simons-Roses-Dilemma-Opens-Dec-18-Off-Broadway|archive-date=October 15, 2012}}

Moore made her film debut as a nurse in the Jack Lemmon comedy Operation Mad Ball (1957).{{cite web |title=Operation Mad Ball (1957) |url=https://watch.plex.tv/movie/operation-mad-ball |website=plex.tv |access-date=August 14, 2023 |language=en |date=August 17, 1957}}{{cite web |title=Mary Tyler Moore |url=https://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/3509/mary-tyler-moore |website=virtual-history.com |access-date=August 14, 2023 |language=en}} Her first speaking part came in X-15 (1961).{{Cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1109x15.html|title = DVD Savant Review: X-15}} Following her success on The Dick Van Dyke Show, she appeared in a string of films in the late 1960s (after signing an exclusive contract with Universal Pictures), including Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), as a would-be actress in 1920s New York who is taken under the wing of Julie Andrews' title character, and two comedic films released in 1968, What's So Bad About Feeling Good? with George Peppard, and Don't Just Stand There! with Robert Wagner. She starred opposite Elvis Presley as a nun in Change of Habit (1969).{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Tim|title=No 'Ordinary' life: Highlights from the career of Mary Tyler Moore|url=http://startribune.com/no-ordinary-life-highlights-from-the-career-of-mary-tyler-moore/411802516|access-date=January 26, 2017|work=Minneapolis Star-Tribune|date=January 25, 2017}} Moore's future television castmate Ed Asner appeared in the film as a police officer.{{cite book|last=Daniel|first=Douglass K.|title=Lou Grant: The Making of Tv's Top Newspaper Drama|date=1996|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=9780815626756|page=21 |url=https://archive.org/details/lougrantmakingof0000dani/ |url-access=registration |lccn=95-20141}}

Moore returned to the big screen in the coming-of-age drama Ordinary People (1980). She received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a grieving mother trying to cope with the drowning death of a son and the suicide attempt of another son (played by Timothy Hutton who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance).[http://www.moviefanfare.com/ordinary-people-with-extraordinary-issues/ Ordinary People with Extraordinary Issues] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011193034/http://www.moviefanfare.com/ordinary-people-with-extraordinary-issues/ |date=October 11, 2015 }}, MovieFanfare.com, July 18, 2012. Moore appeared in only two more films during the next fifteen years: Six Weeks (1982){{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Maslin |date=December 17, 1982 |title=Six Weeks |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/17/movies/six-weeks.html |url-access=limited |access-date=January 26, 2017 |work=The New York Times}} and Just Between Friends (1986).{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |date=March 21, 1986 |title=Screen: 'Between Friends' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/21/movies/screen-between-friends.html |url-access=limited |access-date=January 26, 2017 |work=The New York Times}} She appeared in the independent hit Flirting with Disaster (1996).{{cite news|title=#RIP Mary Tyler Moore: Director David O. Russell remembers her 'electric' performance in 'Flirting With Disaster'|url=http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2017/01/25/54648/rip-mary-tyler-moore-director-david-o-russell-reme/|access-date=January 26, 2017|work=KPCC|date=January 25, 2017}}

Moore was in the television movie Run a Crooked Mile (1969) and starred in several television movies including First, You Cry (1978), which brought her an Emmy nomination for portraying NBC correspondent Betty Rollin's struggle with breast cancer. Her later TV movies included the medical drama Heartsounds (1984) with James Garner, which brought her another Emmy nomination, Finnegan Begin Again (1985) with Robert Preston, which earned her a CableACE Award nomination, the 1988 mini-series Lincoln, which brought her another Emmy nomination for playing Mary Todd Lincoln, and Stolen Babies, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1993.{{cite book|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present|year=2003|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0345455428|page=1443}} Later she reunited with former co-stars in Mary and Rhoda (2000) with Valerie Harper, and The Gin Game (2003) (based on the Broadway play), with Dick Van Dyke. Moore starred in Like Mother, Like Son (2001), playing convicted murderer Sante Kimes.

Moore wrote two memoirs. In the first, After All, published in 1995, she acknowledged being a recovering alcoholic,{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=278–289}} while in Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes (2009), she focuses on living with type 1 diabetes.Sessums, Kevin. [http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2009/03/mary-tyler-moore-html "Mary Tyler Moore's Lifetime of Challenges"], parade.com, March 22, 2009 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506030934/http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2009/03/mary-tyler-moore-html |date=May 6, 2012 }}{{clear left}}

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In 1969, Moore and her husband Grant Tinker founded MTM Enterprises, Inc., which produced The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other successful television shows and films. It also included a record label, MTM Records.{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of Country Music|last=Kingsbury|first=Paul|year=2004|publisher=Sourcebooks, Inc.|isbn=9780195176087|page=359|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4GQDYx_RnkC&q=%22MTM%20records%22%20mary&pg=PA359|access-date=July 31, 2009}} MTM Enterprises produced American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda, Lou Grant and Phyllis (all spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), The Bob Newhart Show, The Texas Wheelers, The Bob Crane Show, Three for the Road, The Tony Randall Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, The White Shadow, Friends and Lovers, St. Elsewhere, Newhart, and Hill Street Blues, and was later sold to Television South, an ITV Franchise holder in 1988.{{cite web|title=9 Overlooked Shows Produced by MTM Enterprises|url=https://www.metv.com/lists/9-overlooked-shows-produced-by-mtm-enterprises|publisher=MeTV|access-date=January 26, 2017}}{{cite news|title=MTM Enterprises|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/27/business/mtm-enterprises.html|access-date=January 26, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=October 27, 1989 |url-access=limited}} The MTM logo resembles the Metro Goldwyn Mayer logo, but includes a cat named Mimsie instead of a lion.{{cite news|title=TV Honcho Grant Tinker, Ex-Husband Of Mary Tyler Moore Dies At 90|url=http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/11/30/tv-honcho-grant-tinker-ex-husband-of-mary-tyler-moore-dies-at-90/|access-date=January 26, 2017|work=CBS Los Angeles|date=November 30, 2016}} Currently, the shows of MTM Enterprises are distributed by 20th Century-Fox, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company.

At age 18 in 1955, Moore married her next-door neighbor, 28-year-old cranberry juice salesman Richard Meeker,{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=55–65}} and within six weeks she was pregnant with her only child, Richard Carleton Meeker Jr., born on July 3, 1956.{{harvnb|Moore|1995|p=65}} Meeker and Moore divorced in 1962.{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=59–95}} Later that year, Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive and later chairman of NBC, and in 1969 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises,{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=141–144}} which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After a 1973 breakup and patch-up, Moore and Tinker announced a permanent separation in 1979{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/185369279/|title=Mary Tyler Moore, Husband Split Up|newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News|date=December 29, 1979}} and divorced two years later.{{cite magazine|url=http://people.com/archive/cover-story-behind-her-smile-vol-44-no-18/|title=Cover Story: Behind Her Smile|volume=44|issue=18|date=October 30, 1995|magazine=People|access-date=February 15, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/tinkergrant/tinkergrant.htm |title=Tinker, Grant|publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications |website=Museum.tv |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207125256/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/tinkergrant/tinkergrant.htm |archive-date=February 7, 2007 }} In the early 1980s, Moore dated Steve Martin{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/387830750/|title=Star tracks|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 27, 1982}} and Warren Beatty.{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/video/watch/eminent-domains-the-san-remo|title=The San Remo: Diane Keaton, Mary Tyler Moore, and Warren Beatty Former Residents|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=August 21, 2013}} Another relationship, with Michael Lindsay-Hogg,{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/style/michael-lindsay-hogg-beatles.html |title= Directing the Beatles Was Just One Part of His Long and Winding Career |last= |date= July 11, 2022|website= www.nytimes.com|access-date=February 27, 2024 |quote=}} ended when she wanted to be exclusive and he did not.Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023, dir. James Adolphus). HBO.

On October 14, 1980, Moore's son Richard died of an accidental gunshot to the head while handling a small .410 shotgun. He was 24 years old.Although some say "accidental" the evidence overwhelmingly pointed to suicide. sources:

• {{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mary-tyler-moore-recalled-sons-accidental-death-at-24-in-memoir-w463205|title=Mary Tyler Moore Recalled Son's Accidental Death at 24 in Memoir|work=usmagazine.com|date=January 26, 2017|access-date=February 15, 2017}}
• {{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/10/16/actress-son-dies/561e4442-fe8d-4cdc-94bc-677ee215e477/|title=Actress' Son Dies|date=October 16, 1980|access-date=February 15, 2017|via=washingtonpost.com}}
• {{cite magazine|url=http://people.com/celebrity/mary-tyler-moore-son-richie-death/|title=How Mary Tyler Moore Was Forever Changed by the Death of Her 24-Year-Old Son: 'I Screamed at the Sky'|date=January 25, 2017|magazine=People|access-date=February 15, 2017}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.nylonrifles.com/wp/2013/11/charming-snakes-with-lead/|title=Charming Snakes with Lead|date=November 20, 2013|work=nylonrifles.com|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-date=February 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215214920/http://www.nylonrifles.com/wp/2013/11/charming-snakes-with-lead/|url-status=usurped}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/18/Mary-Tyler-Moores-son-eulogized-at-funeral/5888340689600/|title=Mary Tyler Moore's son eulogized at funeral|work=upi.com|access-date=February 15, 2017}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/17/A-distraught-Mary-Tyler-Moore-made-final-preparations-Friday/5838340603200/|title=A distraught Mary Tyler Moore made final preparations Friday...|work=upi.com|access-date=February 15, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=29&num=22499 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121211050025/http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=29&num=22499 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 11, 2012 |title=Mary Tyler Moore Opens Up on Grief, Alcohol |last1=Beck |first1=Marilyn |last2=Jenel |first2=Stacy |date=September 8, 2008 |publisher=The National Ledger |access-date=February 9, 2017 }} The same model was later taken off the market because of its "hair trigger".{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=237–240}} Three-and-a-half weeks earlier, Ordinary People had been released where she played a mother who was grieving over the accidental death of her son.

A 47-year-old Moore married 29-year-old cardiologist Robert Levine on November 23, 1983, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.The New York Times, "Mary Tyler Moore Is Wed", November 24, 1983, p. C12.{{cite news |last=Hines |first=Ree |date=February 1, 2017 |title=Mary Tyler Moore's husband opens up: 'To see her smile that smile, just once more' |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/mary-tyler-moore-s-husband-opens-see-her-smile-smile-t107669 |access-date=January 29, 2023 |work=Today}} They met in 1982 when he treated Moore's mother in New York City on a weekend house call, after Moore and her mother returned from a visit to the Vatican where they had a personal audience with Pope John Paul II.{{harvnb|Moore|2009|pp=47–49}} Moore and Levine remained married for 34 years until her death in 2017.Corinthios, Aurelie (January 26, 2017) [https://people.com/celebrity/mary-tyler-moore-husband-robert-levine-love-story/ "Inside Mary Tyler Moore's 33-Year Love Story with Robert Levine, Who Stayed by Her Side in Her Final Hours"] People

Moore was an alcoholic much of her life but quit drinking in 1984 when she admitted herself into the Betty Ford Center.{{cite news |last=Andrews |first=Travis M. |title='I'd gone over an edge': Mary Tyler Moore shared her joy but also her deep lifelong pain |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/26/id-gone-over-an-edge-mary-tyler-moore-shared-her-joy-but-also-her-deep-lifelong-pain/ |access-date=January 29, 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128115821/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/26/id-gone-over-an-edge-mary-tyler-moore-shared-her-joy-but-also-her-deep-lifelong-pain/ |archive-date= January 28, 2017}}{{cite news |last=Bradley |first=Nina |title=MTM Was Bravely Honest About Her Alcoholism |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/mary-tyler-moores-honesty-about-her-struggles-with-alcoholism-prove-just-how-brave-she-was-33196 |access-date=January 29, 2023 |work=Bustle |date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928194253/https://www.bustle.com/p/mary-tyler-moores-honesty-about-her-struggles-with-alcoholism-prove-just-how-brave-she-was-33196 |archive-date= September 28, 2022}} One year after getting sober, she quit her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit.{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=291–92}}

File:Moore Hastert.jpg's Heroes Award to the U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert for his role in securing federal funding for type 1 diabetes research in 2003]]

Moore was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1969.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/26/id-gone-over-an-edge-mary-tyler-moore-shared-her-joy-but-also-her-deep-lifelong-pain/|title='I'd gone over an edge': Mary Tyler Moore shared her joy but also her deep lifelong pain|last=Andrews|first=Travis M.|date=January 26, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 30, 2017}} In 2011, she had surgery to remove a meningioma, a benign brain tumor.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/mary-tyler-moore-undergoes-brain-surgery-meningioma-tumor/story?id=13589156|title=Mary Tyler Moore Has Brain Surgery for Meningioma Tumor|last=Goldmann|first=Russell|date=May 12, 2011|work=ABC News|access-date=July 6, 2019}} In 2014, friends reported that Moore had heart and kidney problems and was nearly blind from complications related to diabetes.{{cite news|last=McDonald|first= Soraya Nadia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/22/mary-tyler-moores-friends-say-diabetes-has-rendered-her-nearly-blind/ |title=Mary Tyler Moore's friends say diabetes has rendered her nearly blind|newspaper=The Washington Post|date= May 22, 2014|access-date=May 19, 2015}}

Moore died at the age of 80 on January 25, 2017, at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, from cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by pneumonia after having been placed on a ventilator the week before.{{cite news|work=TMZ|title=Mary Tyler Moore In Grave Condition|date=January 25, 2017|url=http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/25/mary-tyler-moore-grave-condition/}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mary-tyler-moore-tv-and-movie-star-dies-at-80/2017/01/25/4fdb3902-e32d-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html|title=Mary Tyler Moore, TV and movie star, dies at 80|newspaper=The Washington Post|location=Washington, D.C.|first=Lauren|last=Wiseman|date=January 25, 2017|access-date=January 25, 2017}} She was interred in Oak Lawn Cemetery in Fairfield, Connecticut, in a private ceremony.{{cite news|last=Cummings|first=Bill|title=Mary Tyler Moore laid to rest Sunday in Fairfield|url=http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Mary-Tyler-Moore-laid-to-rest-Sunday-in-Fairfield-10892434.php|access-date=January 31, 2017|work=ctpost|publisher=Hearst Media Services|date=January 30, 2017}}

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In addition to her acting work, Moore was the International Chairperson of JDRF (the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).{{cite web|url=http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=100990 |title=Board of Directors, JDRF |publisher=Jdrf.org |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527213445/http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=100990 |archive-date=May 27, 2010 }} In this role, she used her celebrity status to help raise funds and awareness of diabetes mellitus type 1.

In 2007, 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. The program works on translating basic research advances into new treatments and technologies for those living with type 1 diabetes.{{cite web|url=http://www.jdrf.org/files/General_Files/forevermoore/index.html |title=Forevermoore |publisher=Jdrf.org |date=October 28, 2003 |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911230539/http://www.jdrf.org/files/General_Files/forevermoore/index.html |archive-date=September 11, 2008 }}

Moore advocated for animal rights for years and supported charities like the ASPCA and Farm Sanctuary.[https://sports.yahoo.com/news/remembering-mary-tyler-moore-as-an-animal-rights-activist-222244295.html "Remembering Mary Tyler Moore as an Animal Lover"], Yahoo Sports, January 25, 2017. She helped raise awareness about factory farming methods and promoted more compassionate treatment of farm animals.{{cite web|last= Golden |first= Lori |url=http://www.thepetpress-la.com/articles/marytylermoore.htm |title=Mary Tyler Moore Using Her Voice and Her Smile to 'Turn The World On' to All Animals |publisher=The Pet Press |date=September 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20021217051122/http://thepetpress-la.com/articles/marytylermoore.htm |archive-date= December 17, 2002}}

Moore appeared as herself in 1996 on an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres sitcom Ellen. The storyline of the episode includes Moore honoring Ellen for trying to save a 65-year-old lobster from being eaten at a seafood restaurant.{{cite web|url=http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=2504 |title=Return to Deep Blue Sea Will Be Heaven for Lolly |publisher=People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals |date=June 20, 2003 |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040804061041/http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=2504 |archive-date=August 4, 2004}} She was also a co-founder of Broadway Barks, an annual animal adopt-a-thon held in New York City. Moore and friend Bernadette Peters worked to make it a no-kill city and to encourage adopting animals from shelters.{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/114745.html |title=Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore's Broadway Barks 10 Sets Summer Date |website=Playbill.com |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612142046/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/114745.html |archive-date=June 12, 2008}}

In honor of her father, George Tyler Moore, a lifelong American Civil War enthusiast, in 1995 Moore donated funds to acquire an historic structure in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, for Shepherd College (now Shepherd University) to be used as a center for Civil War studies. The center, named the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, is housed in the historic Conrad Shindler House (c. 1795), which is named in honor of her great-great-great-grandfather, who owned the structure from 1815 to 1852.{{cite web|url=http://www.shepherd.edu/gtmcweb/about_history.html |title=The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War |publisher=Shepherd.edu |date=November 16, 1993 |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615190233/http://www.shepherd.edu/gtmcweb/about_history.html |archive-date=June 15, 2010}}

Moore also contributed to the renovation of a historic house in Winchester, Virginia, that had been used as headquarters by Confederate Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson during his Shenandoah Valley campaign in 1861–62. The house, now known as the Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum, had been owned by Moore's great-grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, commander of the 4th Virginia Infantry in Jackson's Stonewall Brigade.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Moore had a reputation as a liberal or moderate, although she endorsed President Richard Nixon for re-election in 1972.{{cite book |last=Chritchlow |first=Donald T. |title=When Hollywood Was Right |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780521199186 |location=Cambridge, England |page=205}} She endorsed President Jimmy Carter for re-election in a 1980 campaign television ad.[http://www.popscreen.com/v/6yHwS/Historic-Campaign-Ads-_-Mary-Tyler-Moore "Historic Campaign Ads 'Mary Tyler Moore' Carter, 1980"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525232626/http://www.popscreen.com/v/6yHwS/Historic-Campaign-Ads-_-Mary-Tyler-Moore |date=May 25, 2014 }} Popscreen. In 2011, 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 his show and that her political views had leaned conservative in recent years.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/ed-asner-on-playing-warren-buffett-in-new-film-president-obama|title=Ed Asner on Playing Warren Buffett in New Film, President Obama|date=May 18, 2011|work=Fox News|access-date=February 15, 2017}} In a Parade magazine article from March 22, 2009, Moore identified herself as a libertarian centrist who watched Fox News. She stated: "when one looks at what's happened to television, there are so few shows that interest me. I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly... If McCain had asked me to campaign for him, I would have."{{cite news|url=http://parade.com/130517/kevinsessums/mary-tyler-moores-lifetime-of-challenges/|title=Mary Tyler Moore's Lifetime of Challenges|newspaper=Parade|date=March 22, 2009|first=Kevin|last= Sessums|access-date= May 21, 2015}}

In an interview for the 2013 PBS series Pioneers of Television, Moore said that she was recruited to join the feminist movement of the 1970s by Gloria Steinem, but did not agree with Steinem's views. Moore said she believed that women have an important role in raising children and that she did not believe in Steinem's view that all women owe it to themselves to have a career.PBS (January 15, 2013) "Funny Ladies" (season 3, episode 1), Pioneers of Television (TV series)

{{main|Mary Tyler Moore filmography and awards}}

File:MplsMTMstatue resize.jpg, at Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis replicates the tam o' shanter-tossing image that opened The Mary Tyler Moore Show.The statue now stands at the city's visitor center pending the completion of mall renovations in 2017. Associated Press (December 7, 2015) [http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_29213329/minneapolis-mary-tyler-moore-statue-comes-out-storage "Minneapolis' Mary Tyler Moore statue comes back out of storage"] St. Paul Pioneer Press.]]

In February 1981, Moore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the drama film Ordinary People but lost to Sissy Spacek for her role in Coal Miner's Daughter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/|title=Home|website=Box Office Mojo}} In 1981, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama for that role.{{cite web |url= https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1981|title=Golden Globe Awards, Winners & Nominees 1981 |website= Golden Globe Awards|publisher=The Hollywood Foreign Press Association |access-date= December 29, 2017}}

Moore received a total of seven Emmy Awards, including two for her portrayal of Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show and four for portraying Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In 1993 she won an Emmy for her portrayal of Georgia Tann in the Lifetime made-for-TV film Stolen Babies.{{Cite news|url=http://www.emmys.com/bios/mary-tyler-moore|title=Mary Tyler Moore {{!}} Television Academy|newspaper=Television Academy|access-date=February 7, 2017|language=en}}

On Broadway, Moore received a Special Tony Award for her performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway? in 1980,[http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10212/Whose-Life-Is-It-Anyway] {{dead link|date=January 2025}} and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as well. In addition, as a producer, she received nominations for Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards for MTM's productions of Noises Off in 1984 and Benefactors in 1986, and won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play or Musical in 1985 for Joe Egg.[http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=23123 "Mary Tyler Moore: Awards"] on IBDB.com {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714201316/http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=23123 |date=July 14, 2014 }}

In 1986, she was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.{{cite web | last=Rosen | first=Neil | title=Brooklyn's Own American Sweetheart, Mary Tyler Moore Dies at 80 | website=TWC News | date=January 25, 2017 | url=http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2017/01/25/brooklyn-s-own-american-sweetheart--mary-tyler-moore-dies-at-80.html | access-date=January 26, 2017}} In 1987, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy from the American Comedy Awards.{{cite book | last1=Edelman | first1=R. | last2=Kupferberg | first2=A. | title=Matthau: A Life | publisher=Taylor Trade Publishing | series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year=2002 | isbn=9780878332748 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZwz_KUqh3gC&pg=PA95 | page=95}}

Moore's contributions to the television industry were recognized in 1992 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Frazier |date=January 25, 2017 |title=Mary Tyler Moore dead at 80 |url=http://www.torontosun.com/2017/01/25/mary-tyler-moore-dead-at-80-publicist |access-date=January 26, 2017 |newspaper=Toronto Sun}} The star is located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.{{Cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/mary-tyler-moore|title=Mary Tyler Moore {{!}} Hollywood Walk of Fame|website=walkoffame.com|language=en-US|access-date=January 26, 2017}}

On May 8, 2002, 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. The statue, by artist Gwendolyn Gillen, was chosen from designs submitted by 21 sculptors.{{cite news|first=Sarah |last=Hauer |title=Obituary: Gwen Gillen created Mary Tyler Moore bronze |url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/01/31/gwen-gillen-created-mary-tyler-moore-bronze/97253358/ |work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |date=January 31, 2017 |access-date=February 27, 2017}} The bronze sculpture was located in front of the Dayton's department store, later Macy's, near the corner of 7th Street South and Nicollet Mall. It depicts the iconic moment in the show's opening credits where Moore tosses her tam o' shanter in the air, in a freeze-frame at the end of the montage.{{cite press release|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-19-2002/0001689536&EDATE= |title=TV Land Honors Mary Tyler Moore |publisher=TV Land |date=March 19, 2002 |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014201843/http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F03-19-2002%2F0001689536&EDATE= |archive-date=October 14, 2007}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20140202105522/http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/news_20020508mtmunveiling "Mary Tyler Moore to Unveil Tam Toss Statue May 8"] City of Minneapolis website. While Dayton's is clearly seen in the opening sequence, the store in the background of the hat toss is actually Donaldson's, which was, like Dayton's, a locally based department store with a long history at 7th and Nicollet. In late 2015, the statue was relocated to the city's visitor center during renovations; it was reinstalled in its original location in 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mary-tyler-moore-statue|title=A Minneapolis Statue of Mary Tyler Moore Proudly Tosses Her Hat Into the Air|website=Atlas Obscura|language=en|access-date=February 4, 2019}}

Moore was awarded the 2011 Screen Actors Guild's lifetime achievement award.{{cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |author-link=Neil Genzlinger |date=January 26, 2012 |title=Boy, Did She Make It |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-to-receive-screen-actors-guild-award.html |url-access=limited |work=The New York Times}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sagawards.org/media-pr/press-releases/mary-tyler-moore-honored-2011-screen-actors-guild-life-achievement-award|title=Mary Tyler Moore Honored With 2011 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award – Screen Actors Guild Awards|access-date=January 28, 2012|archive-date=January 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129023513/http://www.sagawards.org/media-pr/press-releases/mary-tyler-moore-honored-2011-screen-actors-guild-life-achievement-award|url-status=dead}} In New York City in 2012, 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.[http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/08-2012/photo-flash-bernadette-peters-inducted-into-gray-l_60696.html Photo Flash: Bernadette Peters Inducted Into Gray Line New York's Ride of Fame] Theater Mania. August 21, 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/photo-call-bernadette-peters-and-mary-tyler-moore-honored-in-nyc-com-196862|title=PHOTO CALL: Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore Honored in NYC |website=Playbill.com|access-date=January 23, 2025}}

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• {{cite book |last=Moore |first=Mary Tyler |date=2009 |title=Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes |url=https://archive.org/details/growingupagainco00moor |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=9780312376314 |url-access=registration}}

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• [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Tyler-Moore Mary Tyler Moore] at britannica.com
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• [https://www.discogs.com/release/8743661-Mary-Tyler-Moore-Richard-Chamberlain-Art-Lund-Breakfast-At-Tiffanys Mary Tyler Moore - Breakfast At Tiffany's] at Discogs
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• [https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/mary-tyler-moore#interview-clips Five interview clips], Archive of American Television (1997)

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