Mary Tyler Moore Movies

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Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017)was an Oscar® nominated American actress.  She was widely known for her prominent television sitcom roles in The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977).   This page will look at her movie career.  Her IMDb page shows 77 acting credits from 1952 to 2017.  This page will rank Mary Tyler Moore movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.  This page comes from a request from Mike and she is a Joel Rating The Movie Stars subject.

1980’s Ordinary People

Mary Tyler Moore Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

1996’s Flirting With Disaster

Mary Tyler Moore Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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1969’s Change of Habit

Possibly Interesting Facts On Mary Tyler Moore

1. Mary Tyler Moore was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1936.

2. Mary Tyler Moore decided at the age of 17 that she wanted to be a dancer. Her television career began with a job as “Happy Hotpoint”, a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials during the 1950s series Ozzie and Harriet.

3. Though Mary Tyler Moore would become inseparable from Edward Asner’s character Lou Grant on the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), both actors first co-starred in Elvis Presley’s final feature Change of Habit (1969).

4. Mary Tyler Moore was awarded “Golden Turkey Award” for “The Ecclesiastical Award for the Worst Performance by an Actor or Actress as a Clergyman or Nun” for her role in Change of Habit (1969). She said she was thrilled to get it.

5. Mary Tyler Moore called Ordinary People “the Holy Grail of my Career”.

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16 thoughts on “Mary Tyler Moore Movies

  1. I’m either falling way behind on UMR’s new pages or they’re popping up more frequently than I remember. Should I blame the necronomicon? 😉

    I’ve seen just two Mary Tyler Moore movies – Change of Habit (which features Elvis’s last acting role) and Throughly Modern Millie.

    Ordinary People has to be infamous among film buffs as the film that won the Best Picture Oscar instead of Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull that year. On a par with Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Ryan’s Privates?

    Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!

    1. Hey Steve….I was trying to average a page a day during May….but I fell short….not too short…but I did not make it. So you are thinking correctly….they were going out fast and furious in May. June will be alot slower. I have seen 4 of her movies….or 33%. I have seen parts of 6 Weeks…..but not sure I saw it from start to finish…..that one is a depressing movie for sure. I am not surprised you saw the Elvis/Moore movie. As for Ordinary People over Raging Bull..not thinking as many people fell that way…but I agree some do. I think Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction might top both of them. Good stuff as always.

  2. Thoroughly Modern Millie was one of those pics I was dragged to as a kid. Mary never had much of a film career, but how many people can say they made movies with Elvis, Rowan and Martin and Ernie Kovacs. You know even though Elvis made the top 10 box office stars of the year a number of times he never had a # 1 film. Pat Boone had a # 1 film, so what’s up Elvis.

    Mary’s very short list of co-stars on the 2020 Oracle list (she must have been busy when they were making the Player) are listed below.

    5 DONALD SUTHERLAND Ordinary People (1980)
    101 M. EMMET WALSH Ordinary People (1980)
    107 MICKEY ROONEY Operation Mad Ball (1957)
    124 ROBERT WAGNER Don’t Just Stand There! (1968)
    147 RICHARD JENKINS Flirting with Disaster (1996)
    175 GEORGE SEGAL Flirting with Disaster (1996)
    223 JAMES COBURN Keys to Tulsa (1997)
    310 JACK LEMMON Operation Mad Ball (1957)
    315 CHARLES BRONSON X-15 (1961)
    418 JOSH BROLIN Flirting with Disaster (1996)
    456 BEN STILLER FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (1996)
    484 SAM WATERSTON Just Between Friends (1986)
    528 ERIC STOLTZ Keys to Tulsa (1997)
    545 TIMOTHY HUTTON Ordinary People (1980)
    607 ELIZABETH MCGOVERN ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980)
    619 CAMERON DIAZ Keys to Tulsa (1997)
    675 DOM DELUISE What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
    737 LILY TOMLIN Flirting with Disaster (1996)
    739 MICHAEL ROOKER Keys to Tulsa (1997)
    832 GRIFFIN DUNNE CHEATS (2002)
    884 PATRICIA ARQUETTE FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (1996)
    914 GLYNIS JOHNS Don’t Just Stand There! (1968)

    Mary appeared with 6 Oscar winners.

    JACK LEMMON Operation Mad Ball (1957)
    JAMES COBURN Keys to Tulsa (1997)
    JAMES STEWART X-15 (1961)
    JULIE ANDREWS Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
    PATRICIA ARQUETTE FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (1996)
    TIMOTHY HUTTON Ordinary People (1980)

    1. Hey Dan. So you got dragged to see Thoroughly Modern Millie. There are so many other George Roy Hill movies to get dragged to…lol. Interesting that Pat Boone had a #1 hit while Elvis did not. Boone is a Joel subject….which means one day soon….Boone will be the featured page of the week. As you say, her movie career was pretty minimal compared to her historic television career. Still as you say….she still worked with some pretty good thespians. Good stuff as always.

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