Mary Tyler Moore could turn the world on with her smile. Pioneering and funny. But woe to the person who underestimated her steely intelligence.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Mary Tyler Moore during her Laura Petrie era, as seen in the documentary “Being Mary Tyler Moore.”
Off-screen, she was reserved in ways that differed from her most famous roles, first as Laura Petrie in those pedal pushers and later as local TV news producer Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” She was a combination of strength, nervousness and determination, but she didn’t see herself as Mary Richards, independent woman extraordinaire. She was married throughout the show’s run to Grant Tinker , but the character’s backbone? “That was real,” she says. “That kind of substance and intrinsic dignity of being.”
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