![]() ![]() MOORE: (As Laura Petrie) Oh, Alan, you don't have to do that. I would have gotten you a house, a showplace. REINER: (As Alan Brady) If you wanted a free rotisserie or a dryer, I would have gotten it for you. MOORE: (As Laura Petrie) I came to apologize and to tell you personally that I'd like to try to explain.ĬARL REINER: (As Alan Brady) Explain what? You got a big mouth. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW") In this scene, Mary has come to Alan's office after she was a contestant on a popular television game show and was tricked into admitting that Alan wore a toupee. ![]() At the time of this interview, she had written her autobiography "After All," revealing much about her private life, including her traumatic childhood, her multiple marriages and her alcoholism.īefore we get to the interview, let's hear some of her as Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show." She plays the wife of TV comedy writer Dick Van Dyke, who writes for Alan Brady, played by Carl Reiner. Over the years, she played two extremes very convincingly - the sitcom Mary, the person everyone wants as their best friend, and the cold, steely character she played in the film "Ordinary People." She died in 2017 at the age of 80. MOSLEY: We're going to listen to Terry's 1995 interview with Mary Tyler Moore. ![]() That was the greatest gift I ever received. One day she came up to me and she said, you're very good. MOORE: We looked up, and there she was on the catwalk, and she'd be up there watching us, just observing us. And we'd be rehearsing on the set, and then we'd hear a laugh that wasn't coming from the floor. MARY TYLER MOORE: Lucille Ball was our landlady. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "BEING MARY TYLER MOORE") Here's a clip from it where she describes getting an early boost from a famous TV comedian while on the set of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Mary Tyler Moore became famous and beloved for the funny and plucky characters she played in the 1960s and '70s on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." She's now the subject of a new HBO documentary titled "Being Mary Tyler Moore," premiering tonight. ![]()
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