Facts About Mary Tyler Moore

Larrylambert
3 min readMay 3, 2024

Part of her was famous before The Dick Van Dyck Show.

Mary Tyler Moore was an integral part of two of the most successful TV sitcoms in history. She and Dick Van Dyck portrayed what may have been American’s favorite couple in the 60s as Rob and Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyck Show. Mary followed that success up with a great run as Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore.

While those two TV series may have been her greatest claims to fame, they are far from her only ones. I remembered from a couple of movies but didn’t know a whole lot of details about…

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