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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.
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.
Mary Tyler Moore Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Mary Tyler Moore movie received.
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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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I love The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
I have seen the top two movies. Neither Ordinary People, nor Thoroughly Modern Millie are favourites, despite the fact that Millie is a musical. I wanted to love it, but I don’t.
Hey Flora. I am right there with you on her two classic shows. I had read lots of amazing stuff on Thoroughly Modern Millie…so I finally saw it….it was a big “it’s ok”. Good stuff as always.
i saw the top 2. ordinary people a 9 not a favorite. no hidden gems. loved her television work.
Hey bob cox….I agree with your mini-review of Ordinary People…..a good movie…with no re-watchablility. Timothy Hutton is getting close to joining the UMR ranks. Good stuff.
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
Excellent page on MTM.
Thx
Mike
Thank you Mike.
The only cinematic movie in which I have ever actually seen Mary is Change of Habit in which she and Elvis were both dire with Elvis looking ridiculous in longish combed-forward hair in an effort to compete with the style of The Beatles who threatened to eclipse him at the time as THE pop music sensation. It is claimed that when they made Morituri together Brando wanted to shave his head bald so that he could look equally iconic alongside Yul Brynner; but the studio executives would not agree.
Bruce mentions above that Mary’s old sidekick Ed Asner was also in Change of Habit; and Lou and Mary teamed up again in the 1997 TV movie thriller Payback [no connection with the Mel Gibson big screen movie two years later].
Certainly for her overall contribution to entertainment no reasonable person could begrudge Mary her Cogerson page in my opinion – so Well done Bruce. At the time of her death in 2017 Mary’s net worth was reported at $60 million. IMDB credits her with 29 acting awards and 30 noms.
I consider the latter excellent for a performer whose career began way back in 1957; and had her ‘big time’ been more recently I am sure that she would have been credited with many more honours given the generosity with which awards/noms [at least the minor ones] are dished out nowadays to people like Sylvester Stallone whose stock in trade is ‘personality’ and physical feats like seemingly prancing around the the Rocky Steps rather than serious ACTING ability.
Hey Bob. I have seen 5 of her movies, versus your 1. I have seen her Top 4…and then Six Weeks. A movie that got torched by critics back in the day…but now sits at 55% which is not good but far from the horrible reviews I remember. Interesting that you saw Change of Habit….the power of Elvis. Thanks for the information on her net worth and awards. I agree with you about her net worth. If she had started out in 1990 versus 1960…and had the same career…she would be a billionaire.
FYI I would recommend her Finnegan Begin Again (1985)…a fun romantic comedy….with a great and possible last great performance from Robert Preston. Thanks as always for your feedback.
HI BRUCE:
Thanks for the two-part feedback. Ironic to think that you appear to have once been an Andy Griffith fan.
I have always tended to confuse MTM with Elizabeth Montgomery as they looked a lot alike to me especially as they aged. Indeed when listing in my earlier posts today the MTM work that I had seen I was on the verge of crediting to MTM Liz’s 1993 TV movie “Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story.” Lukckily I caught out my error in the nick of time
As I’m alway s interested in any Dick Van Dyke trivia you could always privately e-mail that joke to me if you had the time My e-mail system is not G-rated of course – though I have put a block on any quotes of dialogue from Willis/Pesci/DeNiro movies!!!
Hey Bob…interesting that you got Elizabeth Montgomery and Moore confused. Growing up…and watching tv re-runs in the afternoon…Montgomery’s Bewitched and Moore’s Dick Van Dyke show played pretty regular.
As for Griffith….I still like his performances…..but my run-ins with him on the Outer Banks were not so enjoyable. Good stuff as always.
Mary was never a strong big-screen force as I think Bruce’s tables above illustrate showing as they do that in her biggest commercial hit “Thoroughly Modern Myrna” Mary was 2nd fiddle to then-megastar Julie Andrews; but Mary was certainly a superstar of television in which medium she appeared in numerous series and TV movies down the years -67 overall according to Wikipedia.
In a way Mary missed the boat with me personally because her best days were in the early years when she appeared on television in The Dick Van Dyke show [61-66] and her own show [70-77]. However I was not a fan of Dick in those years and when I did become a staunch admirer of him in much later years Mary was I thought largely a spent force in whom I had little interest.
In 2016 and 2017 colourized versions of 4 episodes from the original 1961-66 Dick Van Dyke show were released as TV movies [two I hour specials] but for me its day had long gone; and I think I’ll stick with Dick as Dr Mark Sloan in the TV series Diagnosis Murder and I liked his comic supporting turns in the Night at the Museum franchise in which he clowned around with Joe Yule Junior.
Hey Bob….thanks for the thoughts on MTM. Growing up she was one of the most famous actresses working. In my mind she was the opposite of Ron Howard. I would watch Ronnie and Mary in black and white in the afternoon on their first shows Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith shows…and then watch them in color in primetime on their “new at the time” shows, Mary Tyler Moore Show and Happy Days.
As for her movie career….I knew nothing about her pre-1980 movie career. I heard about Change of Habit when I bought one of those Golden Turkey movie books. I just only recently saw Thoroughly Modern Millie. Sorry you missed the boat on MTM. I was so unaware of the Dick Van Dyke colorized episodes or a Dick Van Dyke Show tv reunion movie.
I found a very amusing fact about Moore and what the cast called Dick Van Dyke…..but since this is a G rated website….I decided against sharing it. Good stuff as always.