Actress Mary Tyler Moore Dead at 80

A TV icon for sure,  star one of the best sitcoms of all time, but Mary Tyler Moore left a mark with her big screen work including her Oscar-nominated turn in the 1980 Best Picture winner ORDINARY PEOPLE. She co-starred with Charles Bronson in X-15, Elvis in a A CHANGE OF HABIT, Julie Andrews in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, and played Ben Stiller’s mom in David O. Russel’s FLIRTING WITH DISASTER. Her ORDINARY PEOPLE performance was wonderful and incredibly surprising at the time but it’s her TV work, from Happy Hotpoint, the Hotpoint Appliance elf in the mid-50’s, to The Dick Van Dyke Show to her winning three Emmys as Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ms Moore live for many years with Type 1 diabetes and passed away this morning at age 80.

From The New York Times:

” Mary Tyler Moore, whose witty and graceful performances on two top-rated television shows in the 1960s and ’70s helped define a new vision of American womanhood, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80.Her family said her death, at Greenwich Hospital, was caused by cardiopulmonary arrest after she had contracted pneumonia…..”

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