Sad departure - Mary Tyler Moore, age 80?

I used to watch The Mary Tyler Moore show a lot as a kid…. Thanks for sharing this :( my thoughts are with her family…

Oh, bummer, she was certainly an icon of the 50’ through the 70’s. I grew watching the DVD show and later The Mary Tyler Moore show. I’d have figured her to be older than 80 actually.
RIP Mary.

She always seemed like a really nice lady. I remember her as Laura Petrie going all the way back to the Dick Van Dyke Show in the early Sixties.

And then when the entertainment industry caught up with the rest of us a decade late with The Mary Tyler Moore Show. My generation first saw this as belated pandering for our viewership, but she transfixed us once again with her strong character creation and exquisite sense of comedy.

It wasn’t untill years later that I found out about her life-long struggle with severe diabetes and that as a young dancer she had an implanted insulin dispenser in her waist. She was an amazingly talented woman who made a living showing us how under a vulnerable and self depricating shell, there is often an incredibly stong and assertive person. I really liked her.

So she didn’t make it after all.

Just found out. When I was little (early 1970’s), she reminded me so much of my mother. She looked like my mom, thin and dressed similarly (ribbed turtlenecks, slacks and boots and the beret).

Good night, Mary. I always liked you. Especially when you were on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

I remember watching her legs, as the operator for Richard Diamond.

The world is now Mary Tyler less…

I was sorry to hear this news. I have fond memories of the ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show”. R.I.P.

Younger people may look at Mary’s ‘60s and ‘70s TV shows and think they look quaint. No laugh track, no overt sexual references, no jokey-jokes every 10 seconds. Just great writing, lovely acting, characters you loved, real and hilarious situations and humor we could relate to. Those days are gone.

Goodnight, Mary. We love you.

@SecondHandStoke Maybe she did make it after all.

I just loved Mary in her various roles. Laura, Mary, Miss Dorothy Brown… just loved her.

On the MTM show, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to be Mary or Rhoda. I knew I could be Rhoda but boy I wanted to be Mary and live in that fabulous little apartment. In the mid-late 70’s my wardrobe swung wildly from Mary to Rhoda, sometimes dressy pant suits, sometimes turbans and flowy things.

In real life, Mary Tyler Moore seemed to be such a nice woman who struggled with darkness.

May she rest in peace.

<tossing my beret in the air>

Lovely, @SecondHandStoke.

She was great at comedy, and so amazing in her dramatic role in Ordinary People.