RIP Mary Tyler Moore

SPDUB · 25-01-2017 8:47pm #1

Break out role in The Dick Van Dyke Show and then of course The Mary Tyler Moore Show

She won seven Emmy Awards for her work

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/groundbreaking-actor-mary-tyler-moore-dies-aged-80-1.2951310

me_irl · 25-01-2017 8:48pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4

Dirty Dingus McGee · 25-01-2017 8:58pm

Never watched the Mary Tyler Moore show but without it there wouldn't have been Taxi,Cheers,Frasier and The Simpsons so she's had a huge influence on my life despite never watching her show.

exaisle · 25-01-2017 9:01pm

Mary Tyler No Moore?

Grandeeod · 25-01-2017 9:09pm

MTM Productions. Her company saved Ardmore Studios in Bray from certain housing development in the 1980s. While a ropey actress, she had a good business head on her in production terms.

Atoms for Peace · 25-01-2017 9:20pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJ5hcUQdKc

Grandeeod · 25-01-2017 9:23pm

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJ5hcUQdKc

And that was her own cat too.

25-01-2017 9:29pm

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJ5hcUQdKc

RIP MTM

I remember her show being on RTE but too young to remember what it was all about. I must look up youtube for some of her shows.

I remember it spawned another show with a girls name; Roda? or something.

Mefistofelino · 25-01-2017 9:34pm

^^^^

"Rhoda", which was about MTM's neighbour. Probably famous now for the first TV role for Julie Kavner , who would go on to voice Marge Simpson

25-01-2017 9:37pm

Mefistofelino wrote: »

^^^^

"Rhoda", which was about MTM's neighbour. Probably famous now for the first TV role for Julie Kavner , who would go on to voice Marge Simpson

Thanks for that:)

25-01-2017 9:40pm

Nice quote from Ed Asner who played Lou Grant.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/01/25/celebrity-reactions-death-of-mary-tyler-moore/97048368/

Dr Crayfish · 25-01-2017 9:41pm

I used to watch reruns of it probably in the early 90s, maybe on Sky? I used to like it though. Didn't realise she'd be as old now as she was.
I had an obsession with 70s and 80s American TV then. Hotel, The Love Boat, Taxi, Different Strokes, Family Ties, The Facts of Life...
RIPMTM.

Mr. FoggPatches · 25-01-2017 9:45pm

exaisle wrote: »

Mary Tyler No Moore?

No Moore, no less.

cml387 · 25-01-2017 9:47pm

The classic opening titles to The Mary Tyler Moore Show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-5-qRo4ObQ

maudgonner · 25-01-2017 9:47pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sIRlGnt2zQ

The end of the final episode.

cml387 · 25-01-2017 9:53pm

There is a significance in the MTM show openng titles in that it depicts an independent single woman making a career for herself. This was back in the early seventies when such a concept was unusual and particularly for conservative prime time tv.

Definitely one of the greats, and deserves to be remembered.

maudgonner · 25-01-2017 9:58pm

Yeah, her character was always portrayed as being funny but not silly. Intelligent and (usually) competent, instead of a daft airhead like many of the female stars of the time. I always really liked her for that.

Outlaw Pete · 25-01-2017 11:50pm

Pretty sure Mary Tyler Moore was my first crush. Remember watching re-runs of The Dick Van Dyke Show on Saturday mornings in the 80's just to see her. Doubt I was alone as there really was only three beauties to look at on TV back then: Mary, Wonder Woman and Penelope Pitstop.

In later years I liked her for other reasons though, as even though she was happy to fly the banner for equality and more specifically for the rights of women working outside the home (oftentimes supporting certain presidential candidates on that basis) she still had zero time for third wave feminism.

Moore is surprisingly direct about her image as a feminist role model, playing a single career woman on her eponymous TV show in the 1970s. Gloria Steinem tried to recruit Moore to join the feminist movement, but she refused. “I believed — and still do — that women have a very major role to play as mothers,” Moore says. “It’s very necessary for them to be with their children. That’s not what Gloria Steinem was saying. She was saying you can do everything and you owe it to yourself to have a career. I really didn’t believe that.”

RIP. A true legend.