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{{Short description|American actress & television producer (1936–2017)}}
{{About|the actress|the 1970s television series|The Mary Tyler Moore Show{{!}}''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Mary Tyler Moore
| image              = Mary Tyler Moore - 1978.jpg <!--See talk page before changing image. There is a consensus to use a black-and-white photo rather than the 2011 photo on the talk page -->
| caption            = Moore in 1978
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1936|12|29}}
| birth_place        = New York City, U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2017|1|25|1936|12|29}}
| death_place        = [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], U.S.
| resting_place      = [[Oak Lawn Cemetery]],<br/>[[Fairfield, Connecticut]], U.S.
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actress|producer|activist}}
| education          = [[Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles)|Immaculate Heart High School]]
| years_active       = 1955–2013
| height             = 5ft 7in
| spouse             = {{ubl|{{marriage|Richard Meeker|1955|1962|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Grant Tinker]]|1962|1981|end=div}}|{{marriage|Robert Levine|1983}}}}
| children           = 1
| signature          = Mary Tyler Moore signature.svg
}}

'''Mary Tyler Moore''' (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, producer, and social advocate. She is best known for her 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"<ref name="NYT01">{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Mary Jo |date=January 25, 2017 |title=Sex and That '70s Single Woman, Mary Tyler Moore |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-show-moments.html |url-access=limited |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> and "appealed to an audience facing the new trials of modern-day existence".<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 25, 2017 |title=Mary Tyler Moore obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/25/mary-tyler-moore-obituary |access-date=March 1, 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>Kohen, Yael. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wUj4QgKBwaIC&pg=PR19 ''We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy''] New York: Macmillan, 2012. p. xix. {{ISBN|9780374287238}}.</ref><ref>Carrigan, Henry C., Jr. "Mary Tyler Moore (1936– )" in Sickels, Robert C. (ed.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=kXCjAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA409 ''100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries''] ABC-CLIO, 2013. p. 409. {{ISBN|9781598848311}}</ref><ref>Chan, Amanda, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160101081545/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43008034/ns/health-health_care/t/whats-meningioma-science-mary-tyler-moores-brain-tumor/ "What's a meningioma? The science of Mary Tyler Moore's brain tumor"] NBCNews.com (May 12, 2011).</ref> Moore won six [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] and three [[Golden Globe Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary Tyler Moore |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/mary-tyler-moore |access-date=March 1, 2022 |website=goldenglobes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mary Tyler Moore |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/mary-tyler-moore |access-date=March 1, 2022 |website=Television Academy |language=en}}</ref> She was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance in ''[[Ordinary People]]''.<ref name="RStoneSeriously">{{cite magazine |title=But Seriously: 18 Comedians Who Went Dramatic for Oscar |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/18-comedians-who-went-serious-for-oscar-20150213/mary-tyler-moore-ordinary-people-1980-20150212 |access-date=October 20, 2015 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202061312/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/18-comedians-who-went-serious-for-oscar-20150213/mary-tyler-moore-ordinary-people-1980-20150212 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=McGee |first=Scott |title=Ordinary People |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/18955 |publisher=Turner Classic Movies, Inc. |access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>Darrach, Brad; MacKay, Kathy; Wilhelm, Maria; and Reilly, Sue. [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20078109,00.html "Life Spirals Out Of Control For A Regular Family"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319005520/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20078109,00.html |date=March 19, 2016 }} ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' (December 15, 1980).</ref> Moore had major supporting roles in the musical film ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' and the dark comedy film ''[[Flirting with Disaster (film)|Flirting with Disaster]]''. Moore also received praise for her performance in the [[television film]] ''[[Heartsounds]]''. Moore was an advocate for [[animal rights]], vegetarianism<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=27–28}}</ref> and [[diabetes]] awareness and research.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mary Tyler Moore obituary |work=[[The Guardian]] |first=Michael |last=Carlson |date=January 25, 2017 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/25/mary-tyler-moore-obituary}}</ref>

==Early life==
Moore was born in the [[Brooklyn Heights]] neighborhood in New York City, in 1936 to Marjorie (née Hackett) and George Tyler Moore. Her father was a clerk. The family was of [[Irish Catholic]] descent.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> They lived in [[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush]] for a time and later moved to [[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]].<ref name=genea>{{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}}</ref>

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 Inc.|MCA]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> She was raised [[Catholic Church in the United States|Catholic]]<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 (Los Angeles)|Immaculate Heart High School]] in the [[Los Feliz, Los Angeles|Los Feliz]] neighborhood.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

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]].<ref>{{cite news | first= Frazier | last= Moore | url= http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/actress-mary-tyler-moore-dies-at-80-1.3256784 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170125205004/http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/actress-mary-tyler-moore-dies-at-80-1.3256784 | url-status= dead | archive-date= January 25, 2017 | title= Actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80 | agency= Associated Press | website= CTVNews.ca | date= January 25, 2017 | access-date=  }}</ref>

==Career==
===Television===
====Early appearances====
[[File:Mary Tyler Moore Johnny Staccato 1960.jpg|thumb|left|upright|240px|Moore in ''[[Johnny Staccato]]'' (1960)]]
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]]''.<ref name="AA61-65"/> After appearing in 39 Hotpoint commercials in five days, she received approximately $6,000 ({{Inflation|US-GDP|6000|1952|r=-3|fmt=eq}}).<ref>{{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]}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=AA61-65>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=61–65}}</ref>

Moore was an uncredited<ref name="Evanier/Mary-Record">{{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}}</ref> photographic model for record album covers,<ref name="tralfaz/coverart/MTM">{{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}}</ref><ref name="gottahaverockandroll/38091">{{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}}</ref> many for the [[Tops Records]] label,<ref name="latimes/covers-20170126">{{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}}</ref> and auditioned for the role of the elder daughter of [[Danny Thomas]] for his [[The Danny Thomas Show|long-running TV show]], but was turned down.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref name="Van Dyke"/> Much later, Thomas explained that "she missed it by a nose{{nbsp}}... no daughter of mine could ever have a nose that small".<ref name="Van Dyke">{{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}}</ref>
[[File:Mary Tyler Moore Dick Van Dyke 1964.JPG|thumb|right|upright|240px|Moore with [[Dick Van Dyke]] in 1964]]

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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>  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 (American TV series)|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 (TV series)|Wanted: Dead or Alive]]'' with [[Steve McQueen]]; ''[[Steve Canyon]]''; ''[[Hawaiian Eye]]''; ''[[Thriller (American TV series)|Thriller]]'' and ''[[Lock-Up (TV series)|Lock-Up]]''. She also appeared in a February 1962 episode of ''[[Straightaway (TV series)|Straightaway]]''.

====''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' (1961–1966)====
[[File:Dick Van Dyke Show main cast photo.jpg|thumb|right|240px|''[[Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' cast: [[Morey Amsterdam]], [[Richard Deacon (actor)|Richard Deacon]], Moore, [[Dick Van Dyke]] and [[Rose Marie]], 1962]]
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]]'s company, and Thomas himself recommended her. He remembered Moore as "the girl with three names" whom he had turned down earlier.<ref name=paley>[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.</ref>

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,<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|p=114}}</ref> she said, "I know this will never happen again."<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 [[John F. Kennedy#"Camelot Era"|Camelot]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Sixties Chronicles|first=David|last=Farber|page=153|publisher=Publications International Ltd.|isbn=141271009X|date=2004}}</ref>

====''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (1970–1977)====
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 (fictional character)|Lou Grant]]. ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' bridged aspects of the [[Women's Movement]] with mainstream culture by portraying an independent woman whose life focused on her professional career rather than marriage and family.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="NYT01"/>
[[File:Mary Tyler Moore cast 1970.jpg|thumb|left|upright|240px|The original cast of ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (1970)<br>Top: [[Valerie Harper]] (''[[Rhoda]]''), [[Ed Asner]] (''[[Lou Grant (TV series)|Lou Grant]]''), [[Cloris Leachman]] (''[[Phyllis (TV series)|Phyllis]]''). Bottom: [[Gavin MacLeod]] (Murray), Moore, [[Ted Knight]] (Ted)]]
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Moore's show proved so popular that three regular characters, [[Valerie Harper]] as [[Rhoda]] Morgenstern, [[Cloris Leachman]] as [[Phyllis (TV series)|Phyllis Lindstrom]], and [[Ed Asner]] as [[Lou Grant (TV series)|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.<ref name=paley/><ref>{{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}}</ref>

After six years of ratings in the top 20,<ref name=museum>[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.</ref> the show slipped to number 39 in season seven.<ref name="Comediennes"/> Producers decided that the show should end, afraid that the show's legacy might be damaged if it were renewed for another season.<ref name="Comediennes">{{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}}</ref> Despite the decline in ratings, the 1977 season won its third straight [[Emmy Award]] for Outstanding Comedy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/mary-tyler-moore|title=Mary Tyler Moore|website=Television Academy}}</ref> Over seven seasons, the program won 29 Emmys and Moore won three awards for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy.<ref name=":1">{{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}}</ref> The record was unbroken until 2002, when the [[NBC]] sitcom ''[[Frasier]]'' won its 30th Emmy.<ref name=":1"/>

====Later projects====
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,<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=190–192}}</ref> 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."<ref>A first: 'Mary's Incredible Dream'", by Vernon Scott, UPI report, ''Lowell (MA) Sun'', January 5, 1976, p.24</ref> 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 (1978 TV series)|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.<ref name=museum/> The program lasted just 11 episodes.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In the 1985–86 season, Moore returned to CBS in a sitcom titled ''[[Mary (1985 TV series)|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.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=266–267}}</ref> Moore also starred in the short-lived ''[[Annie McGuire (TV series)|Annie McGuire]]'' in 1988.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=271–272}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In the mid-1990s, Moore appeared as herself on two episodes of ''[[Ellen (TV series)|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]]''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In 2006, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, the high-strung host of a fictional TV show, in three episodes of the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] sitcom ''[[That '70s Show]]''.<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref> Moore's scenes were shot on the same sound stage where ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' was filmed in the 1970s.<ref name=":0"/> She made a guest appearance on the season two premiere of ''[[Hot in Cleveland]]'', which starred her former co-star [[Betty White]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> It marked the first time that White and Moore had worked together since ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' ended in 1977.<ref>[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.</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Theater===
Moore appeared in several [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] plays. She was the star of a new musical version of ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (musical)|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.<ref>{{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 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

She starred in a gender-reversed revival of ''[[Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play)|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 (play)|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]]'', ''[[A Day in the Death of Joe Egg]]'', ''[[Benefactors (play)|Benefactors]]'', and ''Safe Sex''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

[[File:Mary Tyler Moore 1988.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.05|Moore at the [[40th Primetime Emmy Awards]] in 1988]]
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".<ref>{{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}}</ref> Moore had been using an earpiece on stage to feed her lines to the repeatedly rewritten play.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Films===
Moore made her film debut as a nurse in the [[Jack Lemmon]] comedy ''[[Operation Mad Ball]]'' (1957).<ref name="plex.tv/operation-mad-ball">{{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}}</ref><ref name="virtual-history/3509">{{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}}</ref> Her first speaking part came in ''[[X-15 (film)|X-15]]'' (1961).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1109x15.html|title = DVD Savant Review: X-15}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{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}}</ref> Moore's future television castmate [[Ed Asner]] appeared in the film as a police officer.<ref>{{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}}</ref> <!--About them, Moore was asked which one was most her type? "I think maybe Elvis, because he went so against the grain", she said.<ref>Sessuma, Kevin (March 22, 2009). "Laughter Is a Gift". ''[[Parsade (magazine)|Parade]]''. p. 18.</ref>-->

Moore returned to the big screen in the coming-of-age drama ''[[Ordinary People]]'' (1980). She received an [[Academy Award for Best Actress|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).<ref name=RStoneSeriously/><ref>[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.</ref> Moore appeared in only two more films during the next fifteen years: ''[[Six Weeks]]'' (1982)<ref>{{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}}</ref> and ''[[Just Between Friends]]'' (1986).<ref>{{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}}</ref> She appeared in the independent hit ''[[Flirting with Disaster (film)|Flirting with Disaster]]'' (1996).<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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 [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie|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 (actor)|Robert Preston]], which earned her a [[CableACE Award]] nomination, the 1988 mini-series ''[[Lincoln (miniseries)|Lincoln]]'', which brought her another Emmy nomination for playing [[Mary Todd Lincoln]], and ''Stolen Babies'', for which she won an [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie|Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress]] in 1993.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Later she reunited with former co-stars in ''[[Mary and Rhoda]]'' (2000) with Valerie Harper, and ''The Gin Game'' (2003) (based on [[The Gin Game|the Broadway play]]), with Dick Van Dyke. Moore starred in ''Like Mother, Like Son'' (2001), playing convicted murderer [[Sante Kimes]].

===Memoirs===
Moore wrote two memoirs. In the first, ''After All'', published in 1995, she acknowledged being a recovering alcoholic,<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=278–289}}</ref> while in ''Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes'' (2009), she focuses on living with [[diabetes mellitus type 1|type 1 diabetes]].<ref>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 }}</ref>{{clear left}}

===MTM Enterprises===
{{Main|MTM Enterprises}}
In 1969, Moore and her husband [[Grant Tinker]] founded [[MTM Enterprises]], Inc.,<ref name="NYT: MTM Enterprises"/> which produced ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' and other successful television shows and films. It also included a record label, [[MTM Records]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> MTM Enterprises produced American sitcoms and drama television series such as ''[[Rhoda]]'', ''[[Lou Grant (TV series)|Lou Grant]]'' and ''[[Phyllis (TV series)|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 (TV series)|Three for the Road]]'', ''[[The Tony Randall Show]]'', ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', ''[[The White Shadow (TV series)|The White Shadow]]'', ''[[Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers|Friends and Lovers]]'', ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', ''[[Newhart]]'', and ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'', and was later sold to [[Television South]], an [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] Franchise holder in 1988.<ref>{{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|archive-date=January 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126015834/http://www.metv.com/lists/9-overlooked-shows-produced-by-mtm-enterprises|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="NYT: MTM Enterprises">{{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}}</ref> The MTM logo resembles the [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]] logo, but includes a cat named Mimsie instead of a lion.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Currently, the shows of MTM Enterprises are distributed by [[20th Television|20th Century-Fox]], which is owned by [[The Walt Disney Company]].

==Personal life==
At age 18 in 1955, Moore married her next-door neighbor, 28-year-old cranberry juice salesman Richard Meeker,<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=55–65}}</ref> and within six weeks she was pregnant with her only child, Richard Carleton Meeker Jr., born on July 3, 1956.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|p=65}}</ref> Meeker and Moore divorced in 1962.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=59–95}}</ref> 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]],<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=141–144}}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/185369279/|title=Mary Tyler Moore, Husband Split Up|newspaper=[[Philadelphia Daily News]]|date=December 29, 1979}}</ref> and divorced two years later.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> In the early 1980s, Moore dated [[Steve Martin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/387830750/|title=Star tracks|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=December 27, 1982}}</ref> and [[Warren Beatty]].<ref>{{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 (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=August 21, 2013}}</ref> Another relationship, with [[Michael Lindsay-Hogg]],<ref>{{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=<!--Alex Williams--> |date= July 11, 2022|website= www.nytimes.com|access-date=February 27, 2024 |quote=}}</ref> ended when she wanted to be exclusive and he did not.<ref>''Being Mary Tyler Moore'' (2023, dir. James Adolphus). HBO.</ref>

On October 14, 1980, Moore's son Richard died of an accidental gunshot to the head while handling a small [[.410 bore|.410]] shotgun. He was 24 years old.<ref>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}}</ref><ref name=nationalledger>{{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 }}</ref> The same model was later taken off the market because of its "hair trigger".<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=237–240}}</ref> 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.<ref>''The New York Times'', "Mary Tyler Moore Is Wed", November 24, 1983, p. C12.</ref><ref>{{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 (American TV program)|Today]]}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|2009|pp=47–49}}</ref> Moore and Levine remained married for 34 years until her death in 2017.<ref>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 (magazine)|People]]''</ref>

Moore was an [[alcohol addiction|alcoholic]] much of her life but quit drinking in 1984 when she admitted herself into the [[Betty Ford Center]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 (magazine)|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}}</ref><ref name=nationalledger/> One year after getting sober, she quit her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=291–92}}</ref>

==Health issues and death==
[[File:Moore Hastert.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.05|Moore presents the [[JDRF]]'s Heroes Award to the [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|U.S. Speaker of the House]] [[Dennis Hastert]] for his role in securing federal funding for [[diabetes mellitus type 1|type 1 diabetes]] research in 2003]]
Moore was diagnosed with [[diabetes mellitus type 1|type 1 diabetes]] in 1969.<ref>{{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}}</ref> In 2011, she had surgery to remove a [[meningioma]], a benign brain tumor.<ref>{{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 (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=July 6, 2019}}</ref> In 2014, friends reported that Moore had heart and kidney problems and was nearly blind from complications related to diabetes.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Moore died at the age of 80 on January 25, 2017, at [[Greenwich Hospital (Connecticut)|Greenwich Hospital]] in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], from [[cardiopulmonary arrest]] complicated by [[pneumonia]] after having been placed on a ventilator the week before.<ref>{{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/}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> She is interred in [[Oak Lawn Cemetery]] in [[Fairfield, Connecticut]], in a private ceremony.<ref>{{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|archive-date=October 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013181610/https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Mary-Tyler-Moore-laid-to-rest-Sunday-in-Fairfield-10892434.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Philanthropy==
[[File: Mary Tyler Moore (5923384167) crop.jpg|thumb|right|Moore in 2011]]
In addition to her acting work, Moore was the International Chairperson of [[JDRF]] (the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

Moore advocated for animal rights for years and supported charities like the [[ASPCA]] and [[Farm Sanctuary]].<ref>[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.</ref> She helped raise awareness about [[factory farming]] methods and promoted more compassionate treatment of farm animals.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Moore appeared as herself in 1996 on an episode of the [[Ellen DeGeneres]] sitcom ''[[Ellen (TV series)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 shelter|no-kill]] city and to encourage adopting animals from shelters.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In honor of her father, George Tyler Moore, a lifelong [[American Civil War]] enthusiast, in 1995 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. 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Moore also contributed to the renovation of a historic house in [[Winchester, Virginia]], that had been used as headquarters by [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[Major General (CSA)|Major General]] [[Stonewall Jackson|Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson]] during [[Jackson's Valley campaign|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]].<ref name=genea/>

==Politics==
During the 1960s and 1970s, Moore had a reputation as a [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] or moderate, although she endorsed President [[Richard Nixon]] for re-election in [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> She endorsed President [[Jimmy Carter]] for re-election in a [[1980 United States presidential election|1980 campaign]] television ad.<ref>[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''.</ref> 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 [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] of late";  [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 [[John McCain|McCain]] had asked me to campaign for him, I would have."<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref>[[PBS]] (January 15, 2013) "Funny Ladies" (season 3, episode 1), ''Pioneers of Television'' (TV series)</ref>

==Acting credits and accolades==
{{main|Mary Tyler Moore filmography and awards}}
[[File:MplsMTMstatue resize.jpg|thumb|right|upright|A statue, designed by [[Gwen Gillen]], at [[Nicollet Mall]] in [[Minneapolis]] replicates the tam o' shanter-tossing image that opened ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''.<ref>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]]''.</ref>]]

In February 1981, Moore was nominated for the Academy Award for [[Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress]] for her role in the drama film ''[[Ordinary People]]'' but lost to [[Sissy Spacek]] for her role in ''[[Coal Miner's Daughter (film)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/|title=Home|website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref> In 1981, she won the [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]] for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Best Actress in a Drama]] for that role.<ref>{{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|archive-date= December 22, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171222104951/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1981|url-status= dead}}</ref>

Moore received a total of six Emmy Awards, including two for her portrayal of Laura Petrie on ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' and three 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 (TV network)|Lifetime]] made-for-TV film ''Stolen Babies''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

On [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], Moore received a [[Special Tony Award]] for her performance in ''[[Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play)|Whose Life Is It Anyway?]]'' in 1980,<ref>[http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10212/Whose-Life-Is-It-Anyway] {{dead link|date=January 2025}}</ref> 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 (play)|Benefactors]]'' in 1986, and won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play or Musical in 1985 for ''[[Joe Egg]]''.<ref>[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 }}</ref>
In 1986, she was inducted into the [[Television Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> In 1987, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy from the [[American Comedy Awards]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Moore's contributions to the television industry were recognized in 1992 with a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> The star is located at 7021 [[Hollywood Boulevard]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 (cap)|tam o' shanter]] in the air, in a freeze-frame at the end of the montage.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>[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.</ref> 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, and was reinstalled in its original location in 2017.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Moore was awarded the 2011 [[Screen Actors Guild]]'s lifetime achievement award.<ref>{{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]]}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>[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.</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

==References==
'''Notes'''
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'''Bibliography'''
* {{cite book |last=Moore |first=Mary Tyler |date=1995 |title=After All |url=https://archive.org/details/afterallmoor00moor |publisher=[[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]] |isbn=0399140913 |url-access=registration}}
* {{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://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/mary-tyler-moore#interview-clips Five interview clips], [[Archive of American Television]] (1997)

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