Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 29, 1936. She grew up in Southern California. When she was still in school, she danced on stage and commercials, for Happy Hotpoint appliances. By 1958, she was having small roles in TV shows. In 1961, she became a star as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Some of the other shows she was in included, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Thoroughly Modern Millie and the Elvis Presley film Change of Habit. (All these films and shows did not did not do so well.) Her most famous show The Mary Tyler Moore Show won 4 Emmy awards. An Emmy award is an award for the best shows shown on television. She has diabetes. She works as a volunteer for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, too.

1998, by Richie, fourth grade

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