Beloved TV icon, actress Mary Tyler Moore passed away today. Her publicist Mara Buxbaum said,
“A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile.”
We reported earlier that Moore had been on a respirator for more than a week. More was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 33. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was about an independent young woman working in a Minneapolis TV newsroom. In the show’s memorable opening credits, Moore is seen tossing her beret in the sky as the theme song plays the lyrics,
“You’re gonna make it after all.”
Moore was already famous at the time as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Moore was nominated for a an Oscar for her performance in the critically acclaimed 1980 movie Ordinary People.
She wrote two memoirs, acknowledging she was a recovering alcoholic and became an international spokeswoman for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation as well as becoming an animal rights activist.
Mary Tyler Moore was 80.
(via Daily News)
