“Mary was sort of like the Mary you saw, she was extremely kind, she was very private, and she was a little reserved but she was a terrific person”, Silver said.
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Following the heartbreaking passing of actress Mary Tyler Moore, millions of fans and fellow celebrities around the world took to social media platforms to remember the iconic television star. Some even feared that viewers would assume that Laura Petrie, from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, had divorced Rob, which was unthinkable. “But Mary just picked it up so fast”. A chirpy theme song promised that she (and we) were “going to make it after all”, and, lo and behold, she did. Her role – she was this independent woman who had just moved to Minneapolis. “She got it moving!”
She won seven Emmys over the course of her career, including five for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, a record she shared with Candace Bergen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus for the most wins in that category. “And she set a tone that said it was OK for women to be happy in their marriage and want children but also have dreams and hopes outside family, to have goals that related to her career”. And her figure got the producers of the show in trouble with the sensors at times since Mary Tyler Moore appeared on a number of episodes in short shorts and really tight tights.
Moore shot to fame in the 60s when she appeared in the sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show.
A host of other stars have also paid tribute to Mary, who passed away from cardiopulmonary arrest after a week on a ventilator.
ABC’s 20/20 will present the special Mary Tyler Moore: After All, anchored by David Muir and Elizabeth Vargas.
“She was an icon”, Asner added. She was incredibly amusing and completely generous. “I went into double, triple overtime ugly cry”, Winfrey recalled of the moment, captured in the video above. The piece included tweets from Robin Roberts, Katie Couric, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb about Moore being a female role model.
In 1969, she founded MTM Enterprises with her then-husband Grant Tinker.
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Not only did she prove him wrong, he described her as “the best there ever was”.
