Mary Tyler Moore?

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Last Time Out, Who Was Mary Tyler Moore?
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Last Time Out

This year, since the election its been a real Dean Martin Xmas Party with Lola Falana, Topo Gigio and the Fabulous Gold Diggers. One might be prudent to reserve judgement and check their exuberance at the door.

Note above, since December 15, the SP500 in a thinly traded holding pattern awaiting to make a fresh new high of 2298. Reminiscing of things "fresh and new", today we wax nostalgic in remembering one of our all time favorites in…

Who Was Mary Tyler Moore?

Mary Tyler Moore might have been typecast as the typical 60's American stylish housewife in the Dick Van Dyke show. Ms. Moore's portrayal of Laura Petrie managed to transform and tame the common vaudevillian style, while perfecting a comic housewifely hysteria in her signature funny cry.

Said typecasting would end, as Ms. Moore's eponymous 70's Mary Tyler Moore Show spawned the feminist icon Mary Richards. Never before on television, equal pay, birth control and sexual independence faced a never married, thirty-something, independent career woman.

Over the years MTM demonstrated acting range, in particular her stony, stark and dark portrayal of the frosty, resentful, guilt ridden and emotionally crippled mother, Beth Jarrett in 1980's Oscar winning Ordinary People.

"An expensively maintained, perfectly groomed, cheerful homemaker whom "everyone loves." The character masks her inner sterility behind a facade of cheerful suburban perfection. She does a wonderful job of running her house, which looks like it's out of the pages of Better Homes and Gardens. She's active in community affairs, she's an organizer, she's an ideal wife and mother, except that at some fundamental level she's selfish, she can't really give of herself, and she has, in fact, always loved the dead older son more." – Roger Ebert

The film received six Academy Award nominations and won four: the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director for Robert Redford, Adapted Screenplay for Alvin Sargent, and Supporting Actor for Timothy Hutton. In addition, it won five Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director (Redford), Best Actress in a Drama (Tyler Moore), Best Supporting Actor (Hutton), and Best Screenplay (Sargent). – Wiki

Much like Lucille Désirée Ball, the first woman in television to be head of a production company, and whose Desilu Productions produced amongst others (partial list)…

The Jack Benny Program (CBS; 1950-1964/NBC; 1964-1965)

I Love Lucy (CBS; 1951-1957)

Our Miss Brooks (CBS; 1952-1956)

The Danny Thomas Show (Make Room for Daddy) (ABC; 53-57/CBS; 57-64)

The Untouchables (ABC; 1959-1963)

The Andy Griffith Show (CBS; 1960-1968)

My Three Sons (ABC; 1960-1965/CBS; 1965-1972)

My Favorite Martian (CBS; 1963-1965)

Gomer Pyle, USMC (CBS; 1964-1969)

I Spy (NBC; 1965-1968)

Hogan's Heroes (CBS; 1965-1971)

Star Trek (NBC; 1966-1969)

Family Affair (CBS; 1966-1971)

That Girl (ABC; 1966-1971)

Mission: Impossible (CBS; 1966-1973)

Mannix (CBS; 1967-1975)

And germane to today's iconic subject…

The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS; 1961-1966) which a budding Ms. Moore starred in. Mary's MTM productions resume was formidable (partial list with Emmy's)…

The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978, 1 nom)

Phyllis (1975-1977, 1 nom)

Remington Steele (1982-1987, 1 nom)

Newhart (1982-1990, 3 noms)

White Shadow (1978-1981, 4 noms, 1 win)

WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982, 10 noms, 1 win)

Rhoda (1974-1978, 23 noms, 2 wins)

Lou Grant (1977-1982, 56 noms, 13 wins)

St. Elsewhere (1982-1988, 55 noms, 14 wins)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977, 67 noms, 30 wins)

Hill Street Blues (1981-1987, 98 noms, 26 wins)

Over the years, MTM Productions employed many producers, directors and writers that went on to serial Hollywood success including (this list is a partial who's who): Lorenzo Music, David Davis, Marcia Wallace, Robert Butler, Michael Gleason, David Mirkin, Barry Kemp, Sheldon Bull, Mark Egan, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Bruce Paltrow, Steven Bochco, Joshua Brand, John Falsey, John Masius, Tom Fontana, Channing Gibson, David Lloyd, Hugh Wilson, James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, Gene Reynolds, Leon Tokatyan, Mark, John and Grant Tinker, Ed Weinburger, Stan Daniels, Michael Kozoll, David Milch, Mark Frost, Dick Wolf, Anthony Yerkovich, Michael Wagner and Jeff Lewis.

Following MTM shows, of which included two of the best pioneering shows ever produced for American television and my personal favorites, St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues, I always awaited Mary's signature meowing kitten Mimsie.

That darn cat just felt like home. Speaking of feeling homey and good, like most others, Lucy Ricardo, Laura Petrie and Mary Richards had to deal with household expenses and a budget based on wage income…

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