Happy Birthday: Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore

Born: December 29, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Married to:
Robert Levine (23 November 1983 – present)
Grant Tinker (1 June 1962 – 11 June 1981) (divorced)
Richard Meeker (25 August 1955 – 1962) (divorced) (1 child)

[on throwing her hat in the air for the title shots for Mary Tyler Moore (1970)]: “It was a hat that my aunt had given me for Christmas, and I brought it with me because they said: ‘Be sure and dress warm. It’s going to be freezing in Minneapolis.’ So – I forget which writer it was – but we were all outside, and he said: ‘You know what would be good? If you take that hat, the beret, and throw it in the air.’ ”

[when she was cast as the icy mother in Ordinary People (1980)]: “I was thinking of my own family history and how we missed the mark of being everything that I’m sure people thought I was. Because I had, though nothing that would raise your eyebrows. I had problems with my father, in that he expected more from me than I was able to give. I did not do well in school, and that was a big disappointment to him. [on the other hand,] we did our shows, both the The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) and mine, in front of audiences, and he and my mother would come to every show. And I could recognize my father’s laugh.”

Flirting with Disaster 1996 dir. David O. Russell starring Ben Stiller Patricia Arquette Tea Leoni

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