Mary Tyler Moore Dead at age 80

[Kimbo]

Actress Mary Tyler Moore has died, The Associated Press reported, citing her publicist. She was 80 years old.


According to a report from TMZ, the actress was in "grim" condition in the hospital.

Mary Tyler Moore was born December 29, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York the oldest of three children, she and her family moved from New York to Los Angeles when she was 8 years old.

In Los Angeles, Moore's entertainment career began with spots as a dancer in various commercials throughout the 50s, and had her first television role in 1959 in "Richard Diamond, Private Detective," playing Sam, a secretary whose face was never seen but legs were.

By the 1960s, Moore landed a role on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," playing Laura Petrie and winning two Emmys for her work.



By 1970, she landed her own show, playing career woman Mary Richards on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

[Capt.Kangaroo]

R.I.P. funny lady...

[dara]

[crazed 9.6]

As a kid I watched her show everyday. It was a favorite, still is on occasion.
R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore
Nice tribute dara

[big dady]

R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore.
I used to watched her show back in the days

[dara]

The Chuckles the Clown Funeral is an all time classic scene.

All of her MTM Show co-stars survived her, as well as Dick Van Dyke, and Rose Marie.

[Farmer1]

R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore
she had a great show i watched the show often

[FCSI]

R I P Mary Tyler Moore

[Marley]

i was in luv with her when i was a kid R.I.P

[crazed 9.6]

I had been surfing some Documentary programs thru the Phoenix addon and found one of Mary
Is pretty good telling the story of Mary's career.

She never did a comic line until she got the job on the Dick Van Dyke Show.
She wanted to be a dancing star, as she trained in Ballerina dancing, all her live up to this point.
When they were in the Mary Tyler Moore Show era, I saw that Chuckles the Clown Funeral scene dara was mentioning and yup I remember that now. It is a classic.
And I did not know this, but she was also Elvis Presley's leading lady in the movie Bad Habit.... which turned out to be Elvis' last Leading Lady.

Documentary is titled -- Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration